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Roblox Founder and CEO David Baszucki talks about being disciplined with startup funding in the beginning. Besides only having half a million in angel investment to start with, Baszucki says other factors that controlled burn rate were that Roblox was making money early on and that, at times, additional capital was scarce. That forced his team to hire only the best people, he adds.

David Baszucki, founder and CEO of online-games platform Roblox, discusses which decisions are driven by analytics versus the company's own vision. He says user data are good for incremental improvements, but at Roblox, overall strategy sticks to the company vision. "A huge part of our product roadmap is strategic, topological big changes that we're never going to analyze our way to," he explains.