🌟 [ 48 ]   EP.66: Into the Metaverse with Dan Sturman [ @Into the Metaverse ]

This week Yon welcomes Dan Sturman into the metaverse. Dan is a world class technologist, having spent time leading software and engineering teams and departments at IBM, Google, and Cloudera, before taking on his current role as CTO of Roblox nearly four years ago. Coming off of all of the news and announcements made at last weekend’s Roblox Developers Conference 2023 (RDC23) it’s an incredible time to get to chat with Dan about all things Roblox and metaverse. During their conversation Yon and Dan discuss the importance of Roblox remaining a turnkey platform, how to enable efficiency in the creator marketplace, the new Roblox Connect feature and what that experience will be like, evolving a platform to match a maturing audience, getting to one billion daily active users, and much more. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Defining the Metaverse 04:32 What Attracted Dan to the Challenge of Building Roblox 08:15 Differentiating Roblox as a Turnkey Platform 13:12 Creation and the Building of Business On Top of Roblox 19:10 Enabling Efficiency in the Creator Marketplace 22:28 The Importance of Communication and Roblox Connect 30:10 Expansion onto MetaQuest and Playstation 33:28 Evolving the Games and Experiences for a Maturing Audience 37:35 What Needs to be True for Roblox to Get to a Billion DAU 42:08 Supporting Different Needs for Different Creator Types to Monetize 45:54 Blockchain and the Future of Interoperability 48:22 What is Dan Most Excited About for Next Twelve Months To learn more about the Roblox platform, visit: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Learn more about Into the Metaverse and Yon by visiting [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Follow Yon: LinkedIn [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Twitter [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Learn more about Supersocial by visiting [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ]

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