Roblox, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 29David Baszucki 26Greg Solano 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Roblox comes up
HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
- ▶ 58:58 Greg Solano What makes it the metaverse is you're in a virtual world that the community that people are helping kind of co-create, that it's maybe more akin to Minecraft or Roblox than some of these other virtual worlds.
Roblox: David Baszucki
- ▶ 0:46 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how David Buzuki pivoted from making physics software into creating Roblox, a virtual gaming platform with more than two hundred million monthly users. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25 Guy Raz Roblox is a platform where you can play millions of 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Guy Raz Um, Eric will, will feature prominently in the founding of Roblox, and we'll talk about that in a bit, but between you and Eric and your brother Greg, um, what were you all doing?
- ▶ 21:45 Guy Raz Outlines of what would become Roblox, but, you know, at the time, I'm thinking there were some, I mean, this is still, you know, early internet, um, and most people had dial-up, and there were things like, I think, like Second Life and…
- ▶ 24:07 Guy Raz And they start with the name Dynablox, but eventually call it Roblox. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:54 David Baszucki Or the early cars on Roblox, if those were really had axles and motors, so if we pull the wheel off the car, it would scrape along on the ground. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 David Baszucki I think you're doing what thing maybe lasted for 15 years, because I think, because Roblox has always been under the radar a bit, and been used by younger people, it hasn't really surfaced into pop culture, you know, maybe in the last two…
- ▶ 32:00 David Baszucki And then we released Roblox studio. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:13 David Baszucki The, the early Roblox demographic was going viral amongst kids, and we re-introduced Roblox Studio. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:13 David Baszucki The, the early Roblox demographic was going viral amongst kids, and we re-introduced Roblox Studio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:17 David Baszucki Putting just a few advertisements that were kid compliant on the Roblox homepage. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:57 Guy Raz So basically, it was from the, from, once the studio was created, it became a platform, like, for people to kind of, I guess, for lack of a better word, to become their own entrepreneurs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:50 David Baszucki Um, we we've done experiments along the way with paid acquisition to maybe accelerate here or there, but by and large, everything on Roblox has been viral.
- ▶ 44:22 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Roblox continues to grow, but how the team is suddenly tested in a way that nobody could have predicted.
- ▶ 44:57 Guy Raz So, it's early, and Roblox has grown to about seven million users a month. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:38 David Baszucki Some areas super easy, and some of the, um, core areas of even inside Roblox today, the way we run the in-memory database, the way we do networking, these are, these are still foundational things that Eric put together. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:02 David Baszucki We're always balancing, does the average person on Roblox ever run on across any bad content? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:32 Guy Raz That's David Bazzucchi, founder and CEO of Roblox. 3 times in the scene