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The Man Who Built Minecraft in a Week
BUILDERS SERIES · ISSUE 001 Markus 'Notch' Persson didn't pitch Minecraft to publishers. He didn't raise funding. He just built it - alone, in his flat - and posted it online. What happened next became the best-selling video game in history. A Childhood Built on Code Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm in 1979 and spent his earliest years in Edsbyn — a small, rural community in the Swedish interior, surrounded by forests and space. His father brought home a Commodor
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