The company also has safeguards to ensure that younger users aren’t spending too much to buy Robux.īaszucki said he was excited about the stock market debut, adding that it is good for longer-term investors and employees in Roblox, which was founded in 2004, to take part financially in the company’s success. That means that Roblox has to make sure the game stays safe for minors playing it and that privacy practices are strictly enforced. “The increased use of interactive entertainment offerings like ours by consumers, including younger consumers, may prompt calls for more stringent consumer protection laws and regulations that may impose additional burdens on companies such as ours,” Roblox said.

He said the group of 17-24 year-old Roblox users is growing very rapidly.īut Roblox noted in its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that having such a young user base will lead to more scrutiny of the platform. But Baszucki said that the company is approaching a point where most of its players won’t be tweens. The majority of the company’s players are kids 13 and under. Roblox had 32.6 million daily active users at the end of 2020 and the company is predicting that it will have 34.6 million to 36.4 million by the end of 2021. People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the Financial District in Manhattan in New York City. The company also said earlier this month that it now expects sales to rise about another 60% this year to a range of $1.44 billion to $1.52 billion.

Roblox posted revenue of nearly $925 million last year, up 82% from 2019. That’s a big – and rapidly growing business.

More than half of those sales are through the app stores of Apple The company generates nearly all of its revenue from the sale of its Robux currency, which can be used to purchase in-game virtual objects.

Roblox is free to download on phones, tablets and consoles. His stake in the company is now worth more than $4 billion. “Roblox is an amazing community where people are creating together,” said Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki in an interview with CNN Business Wednesday. Roblox describes itself as a “metaverse” where players can make their own avatars and environments to play in, such as virtual theme parks or scuba diving. Shares of the popular video game platform debuted on Wall Street and surged nearly 55% to $69.50, valuing the company at more than $45 billion. Investors weren’t making the trademark “oof” Roblox death sound Wednesday.

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