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Impact, Roblox
August 12, 2025
• 2 min read
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 ...
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Impact, Roblox
August 12, 2025
• 2 min read
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...
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Impact, Roblox
August 12, 2025
• 2 min read
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...
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Article, Impact
October 8, 2026
• 7 min read
The 12 Principles of Impact
How entrepreneurial teams work, lead, and deliver results that last Principles are often confused with values. The distinction matters. On entrepreneurial teams, principles shape how you make decision...
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Article, Impact
October 8, 2026
• 3 min read
How to Inspire, Align, and Amplify Innovative Teams
My book Impact describes how to inspire, align, and amplify innovative teams. And it explores these ideas at both the team level (the operating system that applies to everyone) and the individual leve...
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Impact, Roblox
August 12, 2025
• 2 min read
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...
Read More
Impact, Roblox
August 12, 2025
• 2 min read
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 ...
Read More
Impact, Roblox
August 12, 2025
• 2 min read
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...
Read More
Impact, Roblox
August 12, 2025
• 2 min read
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...
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Impact, Roblox
August 12, 2025
• 2 min read
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...
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Employees gathered in an office with text "The Roblox Revenue Crisis of 2012 the people and culture teams need to turn crisis into opportunity over and over again"
Impact, Roblox
October 7, 2026
• 4 min read
The Roblox Revenue Crisis of 2012
How a crisis forced a team to confront first principles — and how culture, not a single idea, became the solution. An excerpt from Impact. When growth becomes the risk Roblox is a social platform for ...
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Impact, Mission Athletes
August 13, 2025
• 3 min read
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...
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Startups, Toolkit
August 13, 2025
• 4 min read
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 ...
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Startups, Toolkit
August 12, 2025
• 6 min read
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...
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Culture, Startups
October 7, 2026
• 3 min read
The Purpose, Product, People Triangle
The three forces that determine whether a team creates lasting impact — and what happens when one is weak. Which is more important? People or product? This is a recurring question I’ve heard over the ...
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