Erik Cassel

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Erik Stefan Cassel (December 16, 1967 – February 11, 2013) was an American entrepreneur, engineer, and software developer. He was best known as the co-founder of Roblox Corporation, alongside David Baszucki, and served as the company's chief scientist. Cassel was involved in the development of Roblox from its earliest prototypes until his death in 2013. In 1990, Erik Cassel graduated from Cornell University as a physics major,[6] he later saw a review of Knowledge Revolution, a company co-founded by David Baszucki, in MacUser magazine and decided to fly out for an interview to join the Knowledge Revolution team. He served as the VP of Engineering until its acquisition by MSC Software. In 2003, David Baszucki and Erik Cassel rented an office in Menlo Park and began working on an early prototype of what would later become Roblox.[7] In 2004, Erik Cassel departed from MSC Software to join David Baszucki and continue developing Roblox. On February 12th, 2013, hundreds of users gathered in the Erik Cassel Memorial, created by his sons,[9] to mourn the death of Erik Cassel. Many of these people dressed up as Erik Cassel's character to pay tribute to him. On February 15th, 2013, Roblox created a classic shirt named "Official Erik Shirt" in memory of Erik.cassel. The shirt went off sale 8 days later. Also in memory of Erik Cassel, Roblox changed the name of a hat formerly known as "Well Worn Hat" to "Erik Cassel's Hat" and put it on-sale for a short time.[14] Roblox then changed the two items' descriptions to the following: "To honor our co-founder Erik Cassel, Roblox will make a substantial contribution to cancer research in Erik's name. Thank you to everyone for your respect and support."