Jens Bergensten

Jens Bergensten, known as Jeb, has quietly shaped more childhoods than almost any designer alive. The Swede, born 1979, took over as lead designer of Minecraft from Notch and has guided the game ever since, now as chief creative officer at Mojang. Time named him one of its 100 most influential people in 2013 for good reason. What I admire is that stewardship is harder than creation: keeping a beloved sandbox fresh for a decade-plus without breaking what people love is a thankless tightrope. The flashy founders get the legend; the people who sustain the thing deserve more credit. He has my respect.

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Name (English)

Jens Bergensten

Name (Japanese)

イェンス・バーゲンステン

Reading

いぇんす・ばーげんすてん

Born

May 18, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Örebro, Örebro County, Sweden

Occupation

game programmer / engineer / game designer / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Goat

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://www.oxeyegames.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/jeb_
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Bergensten
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167056

Tags

• Örebro County
• game programmer
• engineer
• game designer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.