The tech industry specialises in a tone-deaf executives. The people who run these billion dollar companies are often so removed from the real world, the daily reality of all us peons, that they can seem like a different species. To take one recent example, imagine you got laid off by Microsoft, and then one executive tells you to console yourself with AI, while the CEO says you lost your job because of "the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value."
It's like Bizarroland sometimes, and the latest entry comes from Roblox CEO David Baszucki, who on a recent episode of the Tech Stuff podcast (first spotted by Private Eye magazine) has returned to a pet topic: online dating. Baszucki first started banging this particular drum (in public anyway) at last year's Roblox developer conference, and the necessary context here is that Roblox's user base skews incredibly young, with roughly 40% of users under the age of 13.
