# David Baszucki Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/david-baszucki/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy. Real Alpha has cut 16 moments of David Baszucki (Founder, President & CEO, Roblox) talking, from 2 interviews on Founders and Minus One, the latest published Apr 26, 2026. - Role: Founder, President & CEO, Roblox - About: Co-founded Roblox and has led it as CEO since 2004, serving more than 100M daily users. - On X: https://x.com/DavidBaszucki ## What David Baszucki said - [Roblox replaced a stale subscription with a creator economy](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-replaced-a-stale-subscription-with-a-creator-economy/) Founders · Apr 26, 2026 · 6 min > “If we can allow the creators to figure out all the different ways someone might buy Robux” — David Baszucki · [41:33](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/?t=2493) - [Performance work helped Roblox reach break-even on under $10 million](https://realalpha.app/s/performance-work-helped-roblox-reach-break-even-on-under-10/) Founders · Apr 26, 2026 · 5 min > “And we have a saying in the company, like, performance is a growth feature.” — David Baszucki · [52:28](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/?t=3148) - [Roblox bought its first users, then creators drove growth](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-bought-its-first-users-then-creators-drove-growth/) Founders · Apr 26, 2026 · 3 min > “You can buy them for a buck a buck a user. And so we said, oh, that's a really good idea. Let's go buy 50 users a day.” — David Baszucki · [15:54](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/?t=954) - [Roblox gives autonomous teams ownership of vertical stacks](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-gives-autonomous-teams-ownership-of-vertical-stacks/) Founders · Apr 26, 2026 · 8 min > “running the company efficiently is the most powerful way to then build this vision.” — David Baszucki · [28:29](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/?t=1709) - [Roblox has used AI to moderate content for years](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-has-used-ai-to-moderate-content-for-years/) Founders · Apr 26, 2026 · 5 min > “we were pushing very early AI, BERT models, primitive-type models, to drive safety.” — David Baszucki · [1:05:22](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/?t=3922) - [The 1,000th creator is growing faster than the top creator](https://realalpha.app/s/the-1-000th-creator-is-growing-faster-than-the-top-creator/) Founders · Apr 26, 2026 · 4 min > “creator 1,000 year-on-year is consistently growing faster than creator number one.” — David Baszucki · [1:12:53](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/?t=4373) - [An economy hack forced Roblox to shut down virtual commerce](https://realalpha.app/s/an-economy-hack-forced-roblox-to-shut-down-virtual-commerce/) Founders · Apr 26, 2026 · 5 min > “We caught it pretty quickly and we just said, shut everything down.” — David Baszucki · [1:22:24](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/?t=4944) - [Baszucki chose building Roblox over taking another CEO job](https://realalpha.app/s/baszucki-chose-building-roblox-over-taking-another-ceo-job/) Founders · Apr 26, 2026 · 4 min > “if you ask me the time every day for the next 20 years, it's probably easier to build the clock” — David Baszucki · [6:42](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/?t=402) - [Roblox seeded its first viral loop with about $100 a day](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-seeded-its-first-viral-loop-with-about-100-a-day/) Minus One · Jun 4, 2025 · 4 min > “made the leap from friends and family to virality by spending about $100 a day.” — David Baszucki · [11:31](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/?t=691) - [Roblox built its creator economy when growth stopped paying](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-built-its-creator-economy-when-growth-stopped-paying/) Minus One · Jun 4, 2025 · 4 min > “we just have to go do the big strategic hard thing that we think is right” — David Baszucki · [16:30](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/?t=990) - [Roblox is turning its platform data into creator tools and NPCs](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-is-turning-its-platform-data-into-creator-tools-and/) Minus One · Jun 4, 2025 · 3 min > “we are running over 200 different models we built internally over the last four to five years, all on our own infrastructure” — David Baszucki · [27:31](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/?t=1651) - [Creator earnings are spreading beyond the top developers](https://realalpha.app/s/creator-earnings-are-spreading-beyond-the-top-developers/) Minus One · Jun 4, 2025 · 2 min > “the monetization growth rate of creator thousand is growing faster than creator one” — David Baszucki · [48:29](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/?t=2909) - [Older users arrive through the creator ecosystem](https://realalpha.app/s/older-users-arrive-through-the-creator-ecosystem/) Minus One · Jun 4, 2025 · 2 min > “a team of five or six people in the uk comes up with this and now all kinds of 20 year olds are playing on campus” — David Baszucki · [23:15](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/?t=1395) - [Roblox made email and meeting punctuality cultural norms](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-made-email-and-meeting-punctuality-cultural-norms/) Minus One · Jun 4, 2025 · 2 min > “so we said, you know what? No responsibility culture, send email anytime.” — David Baszucki · [43:38](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/?t=2618) - [Roblox held off on NFTs because 3D assets lacked standards](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-held-off-on-nfts-because-3d-assets-lacked-standards/) Minus One · Jun 4, 2025 · 2 min > “There's not going to really be a standard way to share these shoes.” — David Baszucki · [47:42](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/?t=2862) - [Roblox chose native clients for 3D performance](https://realalpha.app/s/roblox-chose-native-clients-for-3d-performance/) Minus One · Jun 4, 2025 · 2 min > “Because we were so into 3D performance, there's just huge native benefits.” — David Baszucki · [52:40](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/?t=3160) ## The 2 episodes - [Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth](https://realalpha.app/v/osuOwvEhVfQ/) · Founders · Apr 26, 2026 - [David Baszucki: Roblox, Minus One, Digital Economy, & the Metaverse](https://realalpha.app/v/0tR7hcXRHXM/) · Minus One · Jun 4, 2025