2026-06-17
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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler.
Today I am here chatting with David Bazuki, who is co-founder and CEO of Roblox,
which is one of the world's largest and fastest growing games platforms.
David, welcome!
Tyler, thanks for having me on.
It's great to be here.
So Roblox, what is it you all do to help create teenage millionaires?
Well, the focus isn't creating teenage millionaires, and at the same time, there are some teenage millionaires.
Roblox was founded really with the vision of creating a platform where people could play and connect,
where all of the content, all of the games, all of the experiences,
whether it's hide-and-go seek or a fashion game or growing a garden is 100% created by the user community.
You could call it self-service, you could call it UGC.
And what's really interesting about UGC content when creators and the community are making content
is they can come up with all kinds of interesting and novel ways for people to play together.
We started with two people a while ago,
but year by year Roblox has emerged to have millions of people every day playing together.