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David Brent Baszucki [1] (/ b ə ˈ z uː k i /; born January 20, 1963), also known by his former Roblox username builderman, is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, engineer, and software developer. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation.
Bebo was founded by husband-and-wife team Michael and Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco. [1] The website name was bought by the founders, and the backronym "Blog Early; Blog Often" was invented to answer the question of what the name meant. [2] [3]
Birch and Xochi later founded the online social networking website Bebo [5] in January 2005, with a major launch in July 2005. In 2007, Bebo had over 45 million registered users and was the sixth most popular site in the UK, bigger than AOL, Amazon.co.uk and bbc.co.uk. [6] Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million.
Xochi Birch OBE (/ ˈ s oʊ tʃ i /) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur in San Francisco, California.She is the co-founder of several companies since 1999, most notably the online social networking website Bebo, with her husband Michael Birch. [1]
He and Cassel founded Roblox Corporation in 2004. [3] [4] Working from an office in Menlo Park, California, they began preliminary work on the video game DynaBlocks, which was launched in a beta state later that year. [2] [4] The game's name was changed to Roblox in 2005, and the game was formally released on September 1, 2006. [4]
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system built around user-generated content and games, [1] [2] officially referred to as "experiences". [3] Games can be created by any user through the platforms game engine, Roblox Studio, [4] and then shared to and played by other players. [1]
Christopher Lord co-founded the company in 2002. [3] [4] Criterion acquired social networking service Bebo in 2010. Bebo was previously owned by AOL, who originally purchased the service for $850 million in 2008. [5] The acquisition had failed as Bebo's business was declining. AOL sold the company for less than $10 million to Criterion.
Roblox has hired former Roku executive Louqman Parampath to help build out its advertising business, as the video-game platform bets on its lucrative young user base to draw marketing dollars.