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David Baszucki

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CEO of Roblox, explaining on The Knowledge Project why the company pushes to destroy bureaucracy and why an organization that stops simplifying is decaying.

Where to Find Them

David Baszucki has been a guest on Bloomberg Tech (5 times) , Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer (2 times) , Closing Bell (2 times) , Greymatter (2 times) , Decoder with Nilay Patel (2 times) , TBPN (2 times) , Squawk on the Street (2 times) , Terms of Service with Clare Duffy , Sourcery , The Tim Ferriss Show , Hard Fork (NYT) , The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish) , How I Built This (Guy Raz) , David Senra , Recode Media , View From The Top , TechStuff and Big Technology .

Recently: “Roblox CEO: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First” on The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish) (August 2026); “TML Inkling, California Forever?, TSMC Capex | David Baszucki, Everett Randle, Eric Glyman, Jordan Black” on TBPN (July 2026); “S9E4: David Baszucki Says Roblox Is the Future of Communication” on View From The Top (May 2026); “David Baszucki, Roblox” on David Senra (April 2026); “How Roblox Built a Digital Economy Beneath the Games” on Sourcery (April 2026); “We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.” on Hard Fork (NYT) (November 2025).

What They Said

“If one is not reducing bureaucracy, there's no neutral ground. If one is not trying to improve things, it is going backwards.” — David Baszucki, The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish)

Roblox CEO David Baszucki explaining the internal philosophy behind Roblox's push to "destroy bureaucracy." His point is that organizations can't coast in a steady state - not actively simplifying is the same as decaying.

The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish) · 2026-08-18 Permalink → Listen →
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