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April 22, 2026

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Impact: How to Inspire, Align, and Amplify Innovative Teams

Today, we have a special guest on the podcast, Keith Lucas, a startup advisor specializing in product, growth, people and culture. Keith led product and engineering at Roblox, helping scale its infras...

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April 22, 2026

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Ep. 156 — How to Inspire, Align, and Amplify Innovative Teams w/ Keith Lucas, former CPO/CTO at Roblox

Keith Lucas is a startup advisor specializing in product, growth, people, and culture who previously served as Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Roblox, where he helped transform t...

Podcast

May 19, 2026

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An Interview with Keith V Lucas – The Former CTO of Roblox Who Changed the Platform

Keith was the 7th person ever to join Roblox back in 2004 as he worked on many projects alongside David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, and later went on to leave a lasting impact on the company taking on p...

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April 22, 2026

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Keith Lucas Aligns Personal Purpose with Team Performance

Hector Santisteban sits down with Keith Lucas, former Chief Product Officer and CTO at Roblox and author of “Impact,” to explore the essential balance between high performance and creativi...

Article

April 17, 2026

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How Mission Athletes Drive Innovation, Trust, And Team Alignment

Keith V. Lucas doesn’t just talk about innovation—he builds the systems that make it stick. In his new book, Impact: How to Inspire, Align, and Amplify Innovative Teams, Lucas offers a blueprint for l...

Podcast

May 19, 2026

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Managing People Out

Is being “nice” preventing you from being decent? In this episode, we are joined by guest Keith Lucas to talk about “coaching out,” the importance of early communication and the balance between decenc...

Podcast

April 22, 2026

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Episode 237: Leading Creative Teams with Discipline with Keith Lucas

Keith Lucas, author and former product leader at Roblox, joins Melissa Perri to discuss his new book “Impact,” which focuses on building high-performing, innovative teams. Keith shares ins...

Impact, Roblox

August 12, 2025

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John Shedletsky: Mastery of Community

John Shedletsky, Roblox’s first employee, built or helped build some of the platform’s most engaging features—the virtual economy, a currency trading system, user-to-user advertising, and the avatar c...

Impact, Roblox

August 12, 2025

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David Baszucki: Mastery of Urgency

Moving with urgency is critical to entrepreneurial success. In the face of uncertainty and competition, the combination of focus, speed, and iteration outperforms everything else. But it is one thing ...

Impact, Roblox

August 12, 2025

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Erik Cassel: Mastery of Speed

The earliest version of Roblox lacked the ability to program games. Instead, players created experiences by arranging predefined gaming elements in their virtual environments. The rationale was usabil...

Impact, Roblox

August 12, 2025

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Roblox: The Year of Getting Things Done

Toward the end of 2014, soon after I became chief product officer of Roblox, it became clear to me that 2015 should be a year of growth, similar to the year of revenue we had in 2013. Our annual growt...

Impact, Roblox

August 12, 2025

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Christina Shedletsky: Execution Mastery

One of the most complex product transitions we completed during my Roblox tenure was the phaseout of one of our two virtual currencies. At the time, Roblox had one currency tied to the U.S. dollar—Rob...

Impact, Roblox

August 8, 2025

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The Roblox Revenue Crisis of 2012

An excerpt from Impact. Roblox is a social platform for user-created games and virtual experiences, and in early 2012, it faced a crisis. Its revenue growth had suddenly slowed compared to its player ...

Impact, Mission Athletes

August 13, 2025

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Coach, Ally, and Captain

Coaching is a great mental model for mission athletes—the creative, mission driven individuals who keep growing in individual and collective capacity. As coach, you achieve through others based on you...

Startups, Toolkit

August 13, 2025

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Compensation Benchmarking

As I talk about in my book Impact, compensation is often misunderstood. While compensation can demonstrate value and convey appreciation, it is not, in my experience, the biggest lever for attracting ...

Startups, Toolkit

August 12, 2025

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Metrics, Dashboards, and Alerts

Metrics and their usage are incredibly important topics for all entrepreneurial teams, and there is often an overwhelming amount to think about. Here’s my primer on topics of metrics, dashboards...

Culture, Startups

August 13, 2025

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The Purpose, Product, People Triangle

Which is more important? People or product? This is a recurring question I’ve heard over the years, and people usually have very strong opinions. My take is that people are more important — that...

Podcast

April 22, 2026

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Grow Your Startup Fast and Effectively w/ Roblox’s Former Tech Chief, Keith V. Lucas

In the startup world, speed is everything. But too many founders confuse busyness with velocity, mistaking frantic activity for real momentum. In this episode, Chris and Yaniv are joined by Keith Luca...

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