Bonus: Good Bad Billionaire: Minecraft’s maker

奖金:好与坏的大亨:我的世界创造者

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-04-27

47 分钟
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A bonus episode from Good Bad Billionaire - the award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service. You can find more episodes by searching for ‘Good Bad Billionaire’ wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Minecraft is the most successful computer game ever. It's sold 300 million copies, built an active community of fans and there's now even a Minecraft movie. So how did one man - Markus Persson - create it all by himself, before selling it for billions? BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng find out how a high school dropout, obsessed with Lego and gaming, became a computer game hero. The Swedish programmer, known by the nickname Notch, built a virtual 3D world where, with the help of a pickaxe, players could harness their creativity to build almost anything, one block at a time. Persson founded the video game development company Mojang Studios, before selling it to Microsoft, but then came a spectacular downfall. Good Bad Billionaire is the podcast exploring the lives of the super-rich and famous, tracking their wealth, philanthropy, business ethics and success. There are leaders who made their money in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street and in high street fashion. From iconic celebrities and CEOs to titans of technology, the podcast unravels tales of fortune, power, economics, ambition and moral responsibility, before inviting you to make up your own mind: are they good, bad or just another billionaire?
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  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • This is who we are.

  • This is what we do.

  • Dear Daughter, listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • Hi, I'm Simon Jack, the BBC's business editor.

  • And I'm Zing Zing, author, journalist and podcaster.

  • And we're here to introduce you to our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire,

  • which as listeners of the documentary, we think you'll really like.

  • It's all about the minds, the motives and the money of some of the world's richest people.

  • Yeah, we look at their life stories, their wealth and how they made their billions.

  • But it's much more than that, isn't it?

  • It certainly is.

  • We look at things like their business ethics,

  • their legacy and how many of their billions they gave away.

  • So we wanted to give you a little taste.

  • It's May 2009 in a small flat in the Swedish capital.

  • A stocky man sits hunched over his keyboard.

  • The room is cluttered.

  • There's empty coffee cups, paper scribbled with ideas, the bad ones crinkled up on the floor.

  • It's dark outside.