


The average time people spend is two to two and a half hours a day. We have about 50 million people a day on the platform. GamesBeat: What are some big numbers when it comes to Roblox, milestones you’ve hit?ĭonato: Our creator community earned about half a billion dollars last year. My job is to make sure the users of that platform are happy and successful. There are a lot of people building the platform. All the moderation and safety infrastructure that goes to make sure people have a good experience on our platform, as well as the employee experience, talent acquisition, and those sorts of things. We have about 10 million people building on Roblox at any given time, so managing that developer community is part of it. It also involves the work we do to manage the different communities on Roblox. At Roblox, it means the classic stuff, which is all the partnerships. I don’t actually run into that title at every company I cover.Ĭraig Donato: It’s a bit of a catch-all title. GamesBeat: Your title is the chief business officer at Roblox. Craig Donato is chief business officer at Roblox. Here’s an edited transcript of our interview. But despite that old rivalry, we had a nice conversation. I happen to be a UC Berkeley grad, an English major. He was a grad of the Stanford University School of Business. Donato has been at Roblox as CBO for more than five years, and before that he was at Next Door, QVC, Oodle, and Grand Central. I talked about that and more with Craig Donato, chief business officer at Roblox, in a wide-ranging fireside chat at Stanford University Graduate School of Business AME x Gaming Clubs’ Future of the Arrts Media, and Entertainment Conference.ĭonato took every question that I flung at him and he answered a bunch of questions from the audience as well. Roblox has more than 50 million players a day.
