{"id":119472,"date":"2021-02-11T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-man-behind-fortnite-is-making-the-riskiest-bet-of-his-career-the-payoff-could-be-huge"},"modified":"2021-02-11T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:22:16","slug":"the-man-behind-fortnite-is-making-the-riskiest-bet-of-his-career-the-payoff-could-be-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-man-behind-fortnite-is-making-the-riskiest-bet-of-his-career-the-payoff-could-be-huge","title":{"rendered":"The man behind Fortnite is making the riskiest bet of his career. The payoff could be huge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/euiSHuaw6Q4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now Sweeney, 50, is embarking on the biggest battle in his company\u2019s 30-year history: Epic is suing Apple and Google in a legal challenge that could remake the future of the digital economy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Over the course of his career Tim Sweeney has been unafraid to take on tech industry giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Sweeney, 50, is embarking on the biggest battle in his company\u2019s 30-year history: Epic is suing Apple and Google in a legal challenge that could remake the future of the digital economy. Over the course of his career Tim Sweeney has been unafraid to take on tech industry giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}