David Baszucki Quotes

Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

We want to be like a YouTube for viral images.

Roblox is all about having great user-created content. It really ups the bar in the quality of the game.

YouTube is a whole ecosystem.

Bringing Roblox to Xbox is a huge leap forward in our mission to unite and inspire the creators, dreamers and explorers of the next generation.

Roblox is not only free to play, but free to build.

The foundation of Roblox is user-generated content: just like on YouTube there is so much to watch, on Roblox there is so much to play.

Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread.

We're excited to bring the expansive world of Roblox to Android users around the world.

I wouldn't say you can engineer viral. But there is viral content that comes from dense communities.

We are starting to see more and more Roblox games that offer creation. An example would be Theme Park Tycoon, which lets anyone construct a theme park on any device. You get to build roller coasters and theme parks, your work is saved, and when you come back, you can keep working on your creation.

When you come to Roblox, the player participates in things that are created by the community. You can hang out in a restaurant and try to survive a tornado. All of this is created by our creative community.

Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.

It's not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

Calling 'Instagram' a photo-sharing app is like calling a newspaper a letter-sharing book, or a Mozart grand era symphony a series of notes. 'Instagram' is less about the medium and more about the network.

Having built-in video recording capabilities for a game that focuses on user-generated content might be a very good thing.

Roblox is free. The dev tools are free. Anyone can come in and play with Roblox Studio and make a game and push it to our cloud and have it be playable.

Thanks to Twitter, Reddit, web media, and social media, we have the opportunity now to kind of blur that line between the people who produce the content, the people that watch it, and instead make it a conversation, make it a real community.

The things I'm good at are building communities, participatory media, places where people contribute things of their own making.

We started Roblox over a decade ago with a vision to bring people from all over the world together through play.

To enable our vast offering of user-created play, Roblox offers a virtual construction and game-development platform where everyone has the power to make anything from avatar clothing and 3D models to virtual worlds and hardcore games.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

If you look at all the companies I've been involved with - Flickr, Etsy, Findery - communities are a significant part of them. Connecting people to each other, user-generated content, building interactions. That's what I've cared about most.