Picture yourself in the role of CIO at Roblox in 2017. At that point, the gaming platform and publishing system that launched in 2005 was growing fast, ...

Social gaming platform Roblox is bigger than YouTube among kids - and it's paying out a lot of money to the next generation of video game developers.

"Roblox" is now valued at more than $2.5 billion following its latest round of investor funding, it announced on Wednesday.

And Baszucki is announcing today that Roblox expects to pay out more than $30 million in revenue to players in 2017, compared to $5.5 million in 2016.

Roblox has spent the greater part of the millennium creating a cool place for kids to play a diverse collection of games inside a single cross-platform world for its huge audience of tens of ...