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Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play
17 Jun 2026 21 published claims 2 attributable people
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“I’m a bit optimistic about AI fake images and photos because I do think the market’s going to evolve to go all the way back to who’s validating that image or photo.”
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“We’re very different platforms. I think, for us, it’s not about beating out someone.”
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“I think as a counterpoint to everything I do in my life, it’s ancient Greece, Xerxes, all that stuff.”
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“The story, I think, that millions of parents get hit with—many, many medications, many, many doctors.”
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“Initially, tried to pick every campground for three months, and then I would say, by three weeks in, it went a lot more spontaneous.”
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“I would say my youngest mentor, if I had to pick them, would be two or three of the Roblox creators who are under 18 who are inspirational to me.”
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“There’s a balance, I believe, from a UX design standpoint, on the cognitive load of how to design an everything app versus the familiarity people have of splitting their cognitive space between this is a chat app, this is a gaming app, this is a short-form video app, and thinking about it that way.”
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“I would say very inspired by Walt Disney, very inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, very inspired by people who, ever in their period, invented some cool stuff.”
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“We think all of the innovations we’re continuously rolling out are defining what we believe will be the global standard.”
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“I think the very first one, with whoever that guy was that played the godfather in Apocalypse Now, I forget his name, the actor.”
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“I do think there are some real costs involved with social media. I think he neglects the benefits.”
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“We believe Roblox is somewhat unique in that we still have creators making games, we still have people playing them, but we believe the Roblox platform and the way we integrate everything from the tooling to the economy, to the safety and civility system, to the ability for creators to build a gamer experience one time, have it run on any device, have it autotranslate into any language is a real advantage to many up-and-coming creators.”
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“I would say for me and for our company, the position is more how can we be a resource for legislators around the world?”
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“We’ve recently shared a vision for multiplayer photorealism that we believe will integrate AI in our current platform.”
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“For us, it’s been a huge benefit. It’s allowed us to lean, literally since we started, into all of the innovations that started with world-class filtering, started with never sharing images, have evolved to AI-based age check, have evolved to segmenting communication.”
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“Now, because games are very complicated and they have 3D objects and code and all of these things, when AI spins up and starts generating all of these things, you could imagine it using a lot of tokens, maybe.”
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“We will have photorealistic immersive 3D communication. We’ll choose to use that just because it’ll be easier than video.”
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“I think we’re just going to see an increasing accuracy as more and more of these signals become available.”
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“Fortunately, in Australia, what we’ve seen, and I think legislators in the US and around the world are starting to see, is it’s not just one big clump.”
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“If I had to look at 1,000 Roblox games, I wouldn’t name which is more beautiful to me because I think that’s less important than really the heartfelt work of all the creators.”
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“If you were to call mega platforms any platform with over 100 million daily active users, for example, I believe Roblox is quite unique in either gaming platforms, social networking platforms, social media platforms, in using digital age check to estimate the age of just about everyone, and use that, as you correctly note, for banding communication with people who aren’t known.”
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