Markus Persson Biography By Inderveer Introduction Markus Alexej

Markus Persson Biography By: Inderveer

Introduction • Markus Alexej Persson was born on June 1 st, 1979. Now being 41 years old. • He was born in Stockhold, Sweden. • He is the creator of Minecraft

Education • Markus went to Tumba Gymnasium (Secondary School) from 1995 – 1998. He never finished high school. Yet that didn’t stop him from becoming a programmer • After High School he attended Sabyskolan. Then later attending Rotebergs skola.

Career • Though he never finished high school, from his natural talent he landed a job at the age of 18. • After landing that job he did a few more jobs. For example in 2004 join up with Midas player. Now known as King. com King is a popular company that made very popular games, such as Candy Crush. At that time he had also made a friend along the way, Jakob Porser. • His most famous creation by far was the game called Minecraft. It hit the market in 2009 as a sandbox game and quickly rose in popularity. Becoming one of the most famous games in history.

Most Famous creation • Like what I just talked about and will talk about later as well. Minecraft was Persson’s and Porser greatest creation. And I want to talk about how it was made. • After Midasplayer, Persson left it for j. Album. He wanted to make his own big game, that later would be Minecraft. With his talent in just around a week. He had made the game and put it on the market. • Though it was far from finished, It gained multiple players with 400 copies selling per day, being 6 dollars per download, he would have made 2, 400 dollars per day. After that hit of a game. Markus Persson and Jakob Porser stopped working for people as they would start their own company, called Mojang.

Experiences & Impact on others. • Persson never finished high school, but ever since his dad brought home a Commodore 128 computer. With his natural talent, he had his first computer program by the time he was 8 years old. • Later on his mother made him take online programming course’s to boost his talent in programming. And that later would pay off as he landed a programming job at the age of just 18. • His creation of Minecraft created a big community of people of all ages, from kids to teens. He created his fanbase when he made arguably the most popular game ever. It even drove some people to make addons and mods to the game which people could install to make the game better.

Summary • Markus’s creation impacted millions of people and thousands of people who wanted to learn to code because of him. • At just a young age he had natural talent and later it would pay off as he made billions from Minecraft. • Though he sold his creation to Microsoft, his creation is still thriving as one of the most popular games in history, and I doubt that it’s going away any time soon.

Citation’s • Minecraft Wiki. (2020, June 19). Minecraft. Retrieved from https: //minecraft. gamepedia. com/Minecraft • B. (2019, April 16). Markus Persson. Retrieved from https: //www. biography. com/business-figure/markus-persson

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