{"id":77521,"date":"2021-03-11T02:57:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77521"},"modified":"2021-03-11T02:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:54:25","slug":"roblox-ceo-baszucki-is-worth-over-4-billion-and-his-college-buds-vc-firm-just-made-a-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2021\/roblox-ceo-baszucki-is-worth-over-4-billion-and-his-college-buds-vc-firm-just-made-a-windfall.html","title":{"rendered":"Roblox CEO Baszucki is worth over $4 billion, and his college bud\u2019s VC firm just made a windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC)Neil Rimer recalls having early conversations about what became <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/RBLX\" target=\"_blank\">Roblox<\/a> when he was studying at Stanford in the 1980s. He was college buddies with David Baszucki, the gaming company\u2019s founder and CEO. More than three decades later that idea has made Baszucki extremely rich \u2014 his Roblox stake is worth $4.6 billion after the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/10\/roblox-rblx-starts-trading-at-64point50-after-direct-listing.html\">stock market debut on Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/10\/roblox-ceo-is-worth-4point6-billion-and-index-stake-worth-3point7-billion.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC)Neil Rimer recalls having early conversations about what became Roblox when he was studying at Stanford in the 1980s. He was college buddies with David Baszucki, the gaming company\u2019s founder and CEO. More than three decades later that idea has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77522,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77521\/revisions\/77522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}