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David Baszucki

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“You could say Adam Smith. The way our economy works, people have some currency, they buy things when artists or creators make stuff. People decide what they want to buy. People are very creative in making that. We're literally inspired by the real world economy. And so we said we have to have kind of a microcosm of the real world economy. What was exciting is even though we knew this was going to take two or three months to build, the second we committed, like forget all these fixes, forget all of these little things. We're going all in at what we think is the big strategic fix to this problem. It was very relaxing and fun.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You just play. And so all of a sudden, okay, let's go do the big strategic thing. This is going to take a while. Let's just go, go, go, go.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Improve revenue. Oh, let's stack rank them. Okay, there's 50 things. Okay, let's do the top 10 of those. Oh my gosh, those aren't working. And then in the back of our heads, we had been saying there's one thing that's really difficult, which is we need a digital economy virtual currency. We need players to be able to buy Robux. We need them to be able to go into any game and use their robux. We need the creators to sell things for robux, whatever they could think of. We have to trust that these creators in a pizza delivery game, they're going to sell a scooter for anyone who wants to deliver pizzas faster. We're going to have to trust in bird simulator. They're going to sell the ability to turn into an eagle factor.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There should never be any impediment to building and creating. Like, that should just be unlimited and free. So we had arguably a primitive revenue model. We weren't making building free and it was like selling a little extra cool thing, like extra chrome on your car or something. That was getting stale and tired. And what we learned in that is sometimes your intuitive big picture very difficult thing is the right solution. But we did what many other entrepreneurs would do, which is like, oh my gosh, we got a revenue problem. We need to forensically diagnose this. Let's look at the 50 things. What did we change? What did we break? Oh, we can't find anything we broke. Okay, let's spend three more months making a list of all the small little tweaks we can do to him.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Early membership model. If you subscribe for $5 a month, you get some cool stuff. You get like some skins for your website. You get more places to build stuff. So you could build more. But that was actually a very dangerous revenue model.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Much more primitive economic system, a club membership thing, like some much older virtual worlds from young people. We had one of these moments that we've had so many in the company where one number's going great and one number's not going so great. And at this point, we had one number going great, which is user growth and hours growth, but we had this other number going not great, which is revenue.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I believe one has to always be innovating in a company like this. And part of building a company like Roblox is those innovations have to be happening year after year. One almost needs a system for innovation along the way with this economic system called the developer system. Roblox was always what is called a user generated content platform, which means creators are making stuff people are learning STEM. People are getting excited. Like even the ego burst of having three friends play a game can really motivate a young person to get into computer science. So initially you could say Roblox ran on the excitement of having friends see what you're working on. We initially had”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you know, the future in many ways sometimes don't have the hubris to feel many things are inevitable. And so one other way to predict the future, I think, is many things are just inevitable. There are enough smart people around that the wheel was inevitable. And one could take credit. Like I invented the wheel, but that wheel was probably going to get invented by thousands of different people anyways. I think we have a little bit of the same vision at Roblox. Like we are working on something that is inevitable. We are participating and building it. But I don't think we would lay claim to being the inventors of it.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thousand people within the rules and the laws of the state where that political rally may be occurring, we may see both a video version of physical version and a 3D version where you can be there with your friends and kind of go to that. So I really do think we're at the start of kind of just used to be the phone and now video is pretty big. And someday 3D is going to be pretty big too.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just think as over time Roblox gets more and more photo realistic and more real time rather than having video call. What's interesting about a video call with 20 people is we see 20 windows and only one or two people can talk at the same time because it gets all confusing. But in a 3D Roblox world, we're all in the same space and we kind of hear us all at the same time just like the real world. So I think over time some types of video calls will get replaced with 3D calls. We'll see music concerts if you're not live, you'll be there in a 3D holodeck type version with your friends dancing and seeing everything around you. And I do think we'll ultimately see political rallies where in addition to the stadium of 100”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“These things. And we actually, I think, have done something very lucky, unlike almost every other social platform, you name it, it's 13 and up. We've accepted that we have young people on the platform from day one and really built infrastructure around that rather than denying that. So it's a really fun company to run. It's in a really big interesting market. I think we're going to see people doing virtual 3D work on the platform.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Always growing in the background and you're tuning it, and you're trying to make it better. So it's really a fascinating, interesting journey. It, I think, has started with a combination of great people and just a big vision. It's an enormous responsibility because there's probably nine billion hours of people on our platform every month. And at peak time, there's over 40 million people. And from day one, we've built this as a platform for all ages. So we have nine-year-olds on the platform, all of their communication is filtered. They're not able to share images, but they are able to go play hide and go seek. And we put enormous effort on safety and civility with all.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Are made by people on the platform, whether it's a 12 year old hobbyist, whether it's a team of 50 people making $10 million a year, where it's everything in between, and where through these user-created experiences, about 3% of all the gaming in the world is now starting to happen on Roblox. Gaming is a pretty big market. What's really beautiful about it is we see emergent games like you would expect with user generated things where maybe we have a traditional view of what games are. But on Roblox, a top game is dressed to impress like a fashion game where you pick clothes out for five minutes and you compete in a fashion show or what was recently hot grow a garden where your garden is”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In this opportunity to usher it in, initially coming from what seems like a gaming platform, like people playing together, but arguably a platform that if it's done well and if it's done safely and with civility and with scale can be a very important not just play but working platform communication platform lonely kid with cancer in the hospital connection platform lonely kid who's having a hard time finding their people and finding them digitally platform and maybe even a way to experience music or political rallies even so the good news is you know it's good to be in a company with just like a big thing happening behind it the way roblox presents today you could think of it as a through Gaming play platform with about 120 million people on it every day.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now got to be more, and it's just this core human thing of wanting to connect with people, both real time and whatever. Technically, we're not quite done. There's going to be more. And it's not necessarily dystopian. It could arguably very positive whether it's the holo deck we've seen on Star Trek or some of those things where maybe instead of a video call I'm hanging out with my dad and we're walking around ancient Rome together even though he's in Carmel and I'm here or maybe he feels like he's right in my office together and so behind all of Roblox is what I feel is this unstoppable wave of technology that is going to happen and we have graciously landed”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The out of the box big picture thing here is humans are just compelled to try to figure out ways to connect and communicate. And we didn't used to have language. And then we figured out language and we could sit around the campfire and communicate and tell stories. And then we tried to communicate at a distance. We had smoke signals or semaphores. Then we figured out writing and the mail system and we had the Pony Express and all of that. We still wanted to communicate more at a distance. And then we had the telegraph system. Then we had the telephone system. And we use that a lot. And then we have text. And then in the midst of COVID, all of a sudden video, what we're doing.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I still listen to atmospheric calm on Spotify. I am unable to function with anything other than ambient noise in the background, no lyrics, no words, no people saying stuff. For me, if I want some chill music, it's got to be spa music, ambient music. Like I can't get distracted by that.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have those days, maybe 10 or 15 years ago, where I'd just wake up and just go, it's going to be a terrible day. I'm exhausted. And then on the talk therapy thing, the way I sometimes think about this is it's kind of interesting that we first go to talk therapy rather than what I would call mechanical therapy, like mechanical therapy is what's up with the machinery in your brain. Your brain is a machine. And talk therapy with all due respect in many cases very, very valuable. But in many cases, if the machinery is not functioning, not getting enough energy has a core at the molecular level thing going on, talk therapy is not going to do anything. I think the physiological mechanical should always be the first place to go. And in many cases, boom, that can take care of quite a bit.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Feel the same thing about. Feel 10 years ago I used to fear insomnia. Mean a bad day I've never correlated this ketosis, but I now know I can have three nights of what might be considered bad sleep, but I'm not as afraid of it If I wake up at 2 a.m., I Listen to some interesting thing I want to listen to a book or a podcast or something and I fall back to sleep and I actually feel it's just like a free learning period rather than something to be afraid of. And I no longer.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Heavy ketosis arguably a little lower metabolic rate if you just gone nine or ten days without food. You're probably a little skinnier, like less stuff. And then you're saying in that hyperbaric chamber, you pushed two or two and a half times as much oxygen into your body. Dang.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And challenges that seem completely untenable, this is impossible to solve in a moderate level of ketosis. It's like, hey, man, it's chill. You've got food. You've got shelter. You're not going to die. You can solve this thing. Like, let's go do it. It's going to be exciting to solve this challenge. And I can feel that feeling.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll send you a CKM And just like a CGM, you can watch your ketones 24 7 throughout the day and then really see where they're at. They're very close to probably what you would assume, right? You're probably one five mats two five. I also find it hard to really pop up over in that one-to-one five zone. I've got to really push it to get there. But there's definitely a feeling. There is a feeling for me the feeling is one of not irrational optimism, but a little bit of a calm optimism that we can do this. And things are going to be okay. And I'm excited about challenges that I would say when I'm glucose crashing may seem completely un”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Many of your audience, they probably tried CGM, which are continuous glucose monitors now, which are a complement to ketosis. And those are things where you just slap it on the back of your arm, hook it up to your mobile phone, and you get a graph of your glucose level for two weeks that you can look at. That's a gentle early sign of ketosis. If your glucose is just not spiking, but it's not the full picture. What has started coming out now and surprisingly not available in the United States are continuous ketone monitors CKMs. They're available for sale in Canada. They'll probably be approved in the next year in the US. And I got to be honest, I'm in a smuggling ring bringing CKF.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we should come back to knowing what it feels like because I do feel, and this might sound a little wacky, I can either do an optimism simulation or a very minor, obviously with all due respect to people who are clinically depressed, a minor depression simulator by how far I go into ketosis or how far I glucose crash. I feel I can set both of those moods a little with my diet. Once again, not obviously the level of depression of people who truly suffer it, but touch on the edges of that. I like you initially tried some of the fingerprint stuff. And what's interesting with fingerprint stuff is, you know, best practice would be twice a day, check your ketones kind of stuff.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That my son knows that, and I figure that out as well. Like, protein is not a complete free lunch. You will pick up that glue.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know all of this special food, sometime in that case, it's kind of hard to do that unless you just don't eat anything. And sometimes you have to figure that out.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just get that out of my face. You have to know how to order specifically, yeah. I'll take the burger without a bun and some extra mayo and maybe some extra butter and eat the burger with the mayo and the butter and maybe the lettuce and the tomato and all of that. But the bun and the fries are not fully keto aligned as well matte is even more strict. on pretty keto to the point of carnivore as well, which is very heavily animal type products. So I'd say it does take some practice. But I think once you get used to it and you can figure out how to maneuver in a restaurant, I think you're in pretty good shape. The hardest thing for me would be say we were to go to a wedding or something and you're not fully controlling the menu and you've got all these friends around you and it's”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Literally small amounts of fish and butter like asking the chef, get more butter, more butter for my fish and more olive oil. And he popped right back in. I just saw the correlation and how tight it was. So you're exactly right. It's very hard, especially if we're going to restaurants or things like that. I am not as strict as Matt. I feel my life doesn't quite depend on it, but I am also a huge advocate of some of the things you mentioned, sharpness of focus, just body weight control, consistency, energy in the afternoon, all of these good things that come from it. So, you know, when I go into a restaurant, first thing that comes out in a restaurant is the big thing of bread. You have to push that aside.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was eating fish, olive oiled butter, and some avocados. Those avocados had more carbs than we expected and nudged him out of this for him very strict ketone zone. I think he arguably, you know, is good at a ketone level of two or two five. We weren't measuring at the time. We didn't have a ketone measuring device. And we can talk about that. And so all of a sudden, here we are day three or day four. And Matt's starting to get some manic symptoms, more trouble sleeping, which is an early warning sign, a little more agitation. And things are starting to get a bit edgy and we didn't know what's going on. And then we identified, oh my gosh, we're a little off on the diet. The next two days, Matt went to just”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hard, right? And another Matt story that we shared publicly is as we learned about ketosis and how you monitor your diet. And at this point, Matt had been eating primarily food that had been measured, you know, made by a cook. We know all of the ingredients. So we could measure the carbs, the fat, and the protein. And we went on a trip to Mexico as a family for a week. And we thought we had it right in the restaurant, but where we were wrong is possibly me somewhere in the family. We forgot that avocados, even though they have a lot of fat in them, carry some carbs more than we expected. And so we were a couple days into the Mexico trip. Everything was cool.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Matt to what is called a ketogenic diet. And after 20 plus meds and treatments and all of it, we started and he started to see results from this diet, which was an absolute miracle.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Also, I like to think when those Aboriginal people would run 300 miles in America a thousand years ago with a bag of pemmican, that was pretty keto food. That was high fat, low carb food and allows people to go pretty far without crashing. We put Matt on a keto diet and we worked with a dietitian and Dr. Palmer. And this is a diet less than 20 grams of carbs per day, which is almost unfathomable for modern people, right? Because like a quarter of a Coke probably has 20 grams of carbs. And also a diet that probably had more fat than protein, which is also something that we're not used to because I think the last 50 to 100 years, we've migrated to less fats in our diet as well, somewhat. So we migrate.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Invention, but it was more carbs than what the traditional diet has. So being in ketosis comes from fasting or eating very low carbs and more fat than we would be used to. What happens when someone is in ketosis is you run on ketones, this alternate energy pathway, and you get very consistent energy and very clear energy, especially to your brain. The thesis would be, I guess my thesis would be there are a lot of people around, arguably, interestingly enough with bipolar, people who have pretty big brains, like people who are trying to process a lot. And if they're not getting consistent energy to their brain, which could happen from glucose spike, glucose crash, glucose. By glucose crashed, one might argue that what people see in bipolar is actually just a little bit of a symptom of not having enough.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's no more glucose. We go into ketosis, but it's also a way of generating energy that people who live far up in the north and eat seal blubber all day long aren't getting any glucose. They're not getting any carbs. And so they eat that seal blubber and they go into this thing called ketosis. you know it's arguably something that is closer to the way we lived as primitive people than the way we live today we arguably live today with more carbohydrates in our diet because about 10 000 years ago we had this thing called the agricultural revolution and the agricultural revolution in this amazing thing humans figure it out they can generate a lot of food that would support a lot of people it was an amazing”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so I want to take a step back. Your audience may be familiar with what a ketogenic diet is, but in the big picture, almost all of us live our lives day to day burning glucose. And we have monitors, too much glucose can lead to insulin resistance and diabetes. And society, I think, is just learning about glucose. and how it brings energy to the body. Now, interestingly enough, the body has a second way of generating energy called ketones. Most people never touch their ketones. It's a more primitive way of generating energy. It's a way of generating energy that we all go into if we don't eat for a day or two.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some what is called insight, some level of insight where a bipolar person has a small inkling that things are not quite right and they want to participate in treatment. And this thing called insight is this very valuable thing that when someone does not have a sliver of it, they will run, they will sleep outside, they will not participate in the journey. That's what led to ultimately many drugs, many interventions. And finally, us finding ketogenic therapy.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, oh my gosh, we get, we're texting, we got the hospital lined up and we pull in and just go into the hospital and know we're coming, go into this waiting room. We've got like 30 minutes to keep Matt together in this waiting room so he doesn't run away. So let's go have a smoke outside. Let's do all of this stuff. We then finally after what seems like a lifetime the doctor comes in, yeah, we're ready. The doctor's pre-flighted just like, oh yeah, let me see your hands. And this doctor, I forget their name, but she was a genius. She's just like, you know, Matt, this seems like maybe you want to take a rest for a day or two. Just get off the street and wow. That was huge. And he could have ran out of there.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's go see Uncle Alex. So I'm able to get Uncle Alex warmed up. And so we come in hot to Uncle Alex, who's a psychiatrist. Oh, yeah, let's just grab a dinner with Uncle Al. Good. So we're rolling. So then we're hanging out, and then we got to figure out how do we get my son into a hospital without the cops coming and having him run away. Because if he runs away, what are we going to do? So he had had a lot of adventures on the street and his hands were really beat up. I don't know if he was punching a concrete wall or what he was doing, but his hands were really beat up. So Uncle Alex, who's pretty savvy, says, Matt, man, we should go out, get a good steak dinner. What do you think? And Matt, thank goodness that, oh yeah, I'm really hungry. Let's get a big steak dinner. And I look at his hands. I say, hey, Matt, man, your hands are pretty beat up. We should just stop and get those checked out on the weight of the steak dinner. This will pull into the hospital, check out your hands. And Matt's like, cool, let's go do it.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Guy. So, my son and I got into this. I'm saying, hey, we should go see your relatives in San Diego. That'd be fun. So he's like, yeah, that's a good idea. Let's go see the relatives. He's like, you don't mind if I get some smokes, man, do you? I say, no, man, we need some smokes. Let's get some smokes. So we buy like sigs, you know, we buy diet coke. We get in the rental car. He's just smoking completely manic. And we're going to see a relative. So now I'm driving to San Diego texting like 30 people at the same time, texting my wife, texting his uncle, who's a psychiatrist in Carlsbad. And during this 60 minute drive, I've got his uncle lined up as a hot stop. So, yo, we should go see Uncle Alex. Oh, that's a great.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's going to chill out there. So fly Ranald car like SWAT team stuff. I'm on the airplane. I'm sitting next to, you know, someone and they say, hey, why are you going to LA? I said, oh, my son is AWAL with bipolar. I think I have like an hour to get to him and to pick him up and pop into the rail cart, his drive flying over there. I get to this Starbucks. And there is my son. a street person of your son nothing except a plastic safeway bag with his laptop and a cell phone and a charger that he's sleeping in a starbucks with and i'm just like oh my gosh so now i'm thinking okay i can't call the cops because i've been through this before i cannot lose this”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Room and started searching all of Los Angeles, like just go to every Starbucks in Los Angeles. Let's find this guy. In the moment, though, I would say for one or two days didn't quite figure out what to do, except we have a son who's gone AWAL in Los Angeles. This was a terrifying thing, a powerless kind of thing. Here we were family with all of the resources in the world. And then by some miracle, he texted me from a Starbucks once again, full-blown manic episode. And I was just able to work with him and to say, hey, man, it'd be fun to buy us a latte together. You want to just chill out there for a couple hours? I'll come down. We'll buy a latte. It'll be fun. And he said, surprisingly, he said, sure, I'll just chill out here. I'm like, oh shit.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And given the laws of our situation, I got to San Diego near some of our relatives, called in the cops, but he was pretty convincing. He said, hey, I'm free. I don't want to go to the hospital. I knew he was completely out of his mind. And he ran away. The police wouldn't grab him. He just went running away from his dad. That was pretty scary. Following that, we got a report that he had then hitchhiked to Los Angeles from San Diego. He had a phone and a laptop, and that was it. And the communication started getting more spars with him. In retrospect, it's really scary because I think in retrospect, what I know now, I would have flown down there and hired 200 people rented a hotel.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were now into a bit of a situation where our son had run away, had flushed all his meds, literally streaming on social media as streaming as he had run away, had subsequently caught a bus, had made his way down to San Diego, had lived in, I think a lifeguard shack in San Diego. We had some monitoring of him. I knew he was full-blown manic at that time. I tried my first try to come down and pluck him off the street with the help of some police and get him into a hospital.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mind blown really and a miracle. And that was really the catalyst of starting our whole adventure down the ketogenic route.”
2025-11-05 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox — The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT