David Baszucki (Roblox) - When the Platform is Your Product

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Tech entrepreneur David Baszucki explains how Roblox is essentially the YouTube for online games, a platform that derives immense value entirely from the millions of content creators and players who come together to build and be immersed in virtual worlds for fun. He discusses how the company dictates strategy and product roadmap, while depending on its users for growth.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:06.4	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:10.7	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:13.8	On today's episode, we have David Bazuki, founder and CEO of Roblox.
0:19.0	David is championed millions of up-and-coming developers in the video game industry via the Roblox. David is championed of millions of up-and-coming developers
0:22.0	in the video game industry via the Roblox platform,
0:25.7	enabling them to build, publish, and monetize their creations.
0:30.4	He has a degree from Stanford in electrical engineering.
0:33.7	Here's David.
0:39.9	Thank you, Tom.
0:41.3	I was an electrical engineer.
0:43.3	I think the year I graduated was the first year we had computer science here.
0:48.3	I also took a lot of mechanical engineering.
0:50.9	I have four fun facts, so you can figure out how old I really am.
0:56.0	First, I turned in my computer science homework on a printout, so that's a long time away.
1:04.0	The build time for my 68,000 assembly language class was 20 minutes for every build until the time we got to get going.
1:14.6	The largest major at Stanford was Econ, if you can imagine.
1:20.6	That was a long time ago.
1:23.6	And here's the kicker. There was a lot of people going to football games because you could bring a keg into
1:30.4	Stanford Stadium.
1:32.2	No longer.
1:33.4	So that was quite a time.
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