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Millions of preteens
                                                                                              play video games on

                                                                                           Roblox’s website. That’s
                                                                                            not unusual for a social

                                                                                           gaming unicorn. What is

                                                                                            unusual: Teaching kids
                                                                                           the rudiments of coding

                                                                                             and paying them like
                                                                                                  entrepreneurs.


   preneurs
                                                                                                       BY ALEX KNAPP














                                                                                          Roblox box: Cofounder Dave Baszucki leans
                                                                                      against a mockup of a video game action-figure set
                                                                                       at the firm’s headquarters in San Mateo, California.



















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