Markus started the game Minecraft as a side project, while working on his day job.
He had personal tragedies during this time.Yet he kept pushing.
Later he sold for 2+ billion.
What you could learn from this episode:
- What sparked his interest in games
- What his mother did when he failed to finish high school
- How he landed a job with a game maker
- What skills he learnt on the new job, which will help him later
- A new discovery he made on how games are being made.
- How he liked a game and decided to make it better
- What he did when his bosses pressurized him not to pursue his own game development.
- How he named his game as MineCraft
- How he watched others play and improved his game
- How he got fans for his game
- What made decide on the unique pricing for the game.
- Why he released the game even though it was not ready
- How he handled himself when a personal tragedy stuck him.
- Why he built a separate virtual avatar for himself.
