Persson never finished high school, but he had been teaching himself how to write code ever since his dad gave him the Commodore, and his mother made him take an online programming course to bolster his natural talent. By the time he was 8, he had written his first computer program. Persson latched right on, and he would fake stomachaches to stay home from school and write code. Growing up, he was an obsessive Lego builder, until he was 7 and his father brought home a Commodore 128 computer. He grew up in the small town of Edsbyn, surrounded by forests that would influence his biggest game creation, Minecraft, decades later. Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 1, 1979. Persson eventually sold his software company, Mojang, and the game that put him on the map, to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. It wasn't long before he was creating his own games on the side, and his first release, Minecraft, would be a massive international success.
Although he never finished high school, Persson landed a programming job when he was 18.
Markus Persson was writing computer code by the time he was 8.
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