Philip Rosedale

Rosedale strikes me as a rare kind of builder, one who chased the idea of a second self in a digital world long before the word metaverse was fashionable. Founding Linden Lab and Second Life in the early 2000s took real conviction, and I respect anyone who bets on a strange vision over an easy profit. There is something quintessentially West Coast about a San Diego kid out of UC San Diego trying to engineer a place where people simply get to be someone else. Even when his ideas overreach, I find that the failures of dreamers like him tend to seed the platforms everyone else eventually copies.

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Name (English)

Philip Rosedale

Name (Japanese)

フィリップ・ローズデール

Reading

ふぃりっぷ・ろーずでーる

Born

September 29, 1968 (age 57)

Origin

San Diego, California, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / businessperson

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

University

University of California, San Diego

• Official sitehttps://www.rosedales.com/philip
• Xhttps://x.com/philiprosedale
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Rosedale
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1978446

Tags

• California
• entrepreneur
• businessperson

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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