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Roblox Corporation. Roblox Corporation ( / ˈroʊblɒks / ROH-bloks) is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2004 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, the company is the developer of Roblox, which was released in 2006. As of December 31, 2023, the company employs over 2,400 people. [ 1]
The beta version of Roblox was created by co-founders David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 under the name DynaBlocks. [61] Baszucki started testing the first demos that year. [ 62 ] In 2005, the company changed its name to Roblox.
David Baszucki ( / bəˈzuːki /; born January 20, 1963), also known by his Roblox username david.baszucki, formerly builderman, is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, engineer, and software developer. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation. He previously co-founded and served as the CEO of Knowledge Revolution ...
The US online gaming company in 2019 announced a strategic partnership with China-based tech giant Tencent ( TCEHY ), though Roblox paused service in China in 2022. "We're being very, very careful ...
The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, [ 13] and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, [ 14] which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in ...
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries .
Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, [ 16] by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Tradedoubler. [ 17][ 18] According to Ek, the company's title was initially misheard from a name shouted by Lorentzon. Later they conceived a portmanteau of "spot" and "identify".
Twitter, Inc. Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco, California, which operated and was named for its flagship social media network prior to its rebrand as X. In addition to Twitter, the company previously operated the Vine short video app and Periscope livestreaming service.