24-year-old engineer Michael Sayman is leaving Google to join hot gaming platform Roblox.
He told Business Insider he cottoned onto Roblox's popularity after having a day at the theme park with his sister, and noticing that all the kids were playing Roblox games on their devices.Michael Sayman, one time Facebook's teen-in-residence, is leaving his current role at Google to join hot gaming company Roblox.Sayman was famously hired by Mark Zuckerberg as an intern when he was 17 after creating a hit game, 4 Snaps, that caught the Facebook CEO's eye.
"Roblox as a gaming platform is looking to bring me onboard to help build out the future of social on its platform," Sayman told Business Insider. This understanding of how young people operate on social media, plus his childhood love of social games, is why he's joining Roblox. Roblox was founded in the US in 2006 by CEO David Baszucki, and the late Erik Cassel. The gaming platform has been quietly growing in popularity and has been supercharged by the pandemic,Unlike titles like "Fortnite" Roblox is not itself a game, but a collection of millions of child-friendly games created by its community of developers. The platform itself is free, but offers a paid virtual currency called Robux.
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