Baszucki: 20-Year-Old Roblox Deck Predicted Category of Human Co-Existence
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Roblox CEO David Baszucki discusses the founding vision of Roblox with Elad Gil and Sarah Guo on No Priors.
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“So there is a Roblox business plan PowerPoint deck from almost 20 years ago that we pull out sometimes and we're amazed at the fidelity of it. It pretends a new category. One could call it the category of human co-existence. It's got the sizes of a bunch of companies from 20 years ago, so you can see social networking companies, you can see YouTube video, you can see toys, and you can see all of that. And what this, what it imagined is really a new category. Some have called it the metaverse, some have called it the holodeck, which is really the ultimate high fidelity simulation where people can come together and do stuff.”
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