Three years ago, I was obsessed and constantly shipping updates. I'd spend hours tweaking everything from spawn locations, checkpoints, stages, events, products, fixing bugs, and watching player feedback & analytics after every release. There wasn't really a plan to follow. You'd just build something, put it in front of players, and know within minutes whether it worked.
Today, at 24 (happy birthday to me today!), I'm COO at Basket Entertainment, helping oversee more than 500 games generating over 2.5 billion monthly sessions.
People sometimes ask what changed. A lot but not a lot.
I still think like a game developer. I just build different things now. Instead of building features, I'm building teams & systems.
The instincts are the same. On Roblox, the feedback loop is instant and public. You learn fast what works and what doesn't. That's true whether you're tuning a checkpoint at 1am or deciding which studio or game needs support before a launch goes sideways.
The old model of gaming leadership had a wall separating "the build" and "the business." That wall doesn't really exist anymore. A single title can go from zero to hundreds of millions of sessions in weeks and a Roblox developer is suddenly a business owner. The studios winning are the ones who can operationalize that speed across dozens of releases at once. They don’t let flops prevent them from continuing forward.
I know there are a lot of developers like me who love building games and want to grow something bigger around them. That's exactly why we launched the Basket Accelerator Program.
We want to find the next generation of builders who think like operators before anyone hands them the title. If that's you, reach out. We want to bet on you early.
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