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Minecraft and Mojang
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- 0:00He sold the game he started alone to
- 0:01Microsoft. A year later he said he had
- 0:03never felt more isolated. [music] Markus
- 0:06Persson, known online as Notch, was a
- 0:08Swedish programmer who made games in his
- 0:09spare time. In 2009, he started a small
- 0:12game about placing blocks. He shared
- 0:15early versions online and players paid
- 0:17to join while he kept building.
- 0:18They [music] built castles, cities, even
- 0:20working computers. A studio called
- 0:22Mojang grew around it. [music] In 2014,
- 0:25Microsoft bought Mojang for $2.5
- 0:27billion.
- 0:28>> [music]
- 0:29>> Notch walked away. He bought a $70
- 0:31million mansion in Beverly Hills. Then,
- 0:33in August 2015, he tweeted, "Hanging out
- 0:35in Ibiza with a bunch of friends and
- 0:37partying [music] with famous people.
- 0:38I've never felt more isolated."
- 0:40The game kept growing. The builder felt
- 0:42empty.
- 0:44Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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