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Employment Is Dead
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Employment Is Dead

by Deborah Perry Piscione, Josh Drean
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 42m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 2

Ten Principles ofDecentralized Work

Anne Shoemaker was just fourteen years old when she designed her first game in Roblox, a metaverse gaming platform launched in 2006 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel. Anne’s game was called Mermaid Life, and it quickly became incredibly popular, so much so that she won the 2022 Roblox Innovation Award. When asked on a CNBC interview how much she made that first year, she shocked the host by announcing that she made $500,000.1 She went on to build other successful games, founded Fullflower Studio and was spotlighted on Forbes 30 under 30.

With an impressive 77.7 million daily users, Roblox has emerged as a dominant force, captivating the time and attention of Gen Zers and Gen Alpha. The platform’s ...

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ISBN: 9781647826437