{"id":122564,"date":"2021-05-13T20:24:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/how-roblox-became-a-45-billion-public-videogame-company-wsj"},"modified":"2021-05-13T20:24:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:24:47","slug":"how-roblox-became-a-45-billion-public-videogame-company-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/how-roblox-became-a-45-billion-public-videogame-company-wsj","title":{"rendered":"How Roblox Became a $45 Billion Public Videogame Company | WSJ"},"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\/39x7GNm5gIc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rather than relying on Hollywood-like budgets to produce games, videogame company Roblox outsources the development to its mostly young players. WSJ meets a gamer making money from his creations and helping the publicly traded company attract new players. Photo: Roblox.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Wall Street Journal:<br \/> Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/WSJ.com\">WSJ.com<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com<\/a>.<br \/> Visit the WSJ Video Center: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsj.com\/video\">https:\/\/wsj.com\/video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/<\/a><br \/> On Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ<\/a><br \/> On Snapchat: <a href=\"https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/2ratjSM\">https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/2ratjSM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#WSJ #Roblox #IPO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than relying on Hollywood-like budgets to produce games, videogame company Roblox outsources the development to its mostly young players. WSJ meets a gamer making money from his creations and helping the publicly traded company attract new players. Photo: Roblox. More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http:\/\/www.wsj.com. Visit the WSJ Video Center: https:\/\/wsj.com\/video. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122564","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=122564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}