Tim Sweeney
Founder and CEO of Epic Games; creator of Unreal Engine; North Carolina land conservationist.
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What they own
Holds stakes in Epic Games.
Roles
Epic Games (CEO)
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- Tim Sweeney is an American programmer and businessman, founder and CEO of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine.
- He started the company as Potomac Computer Systems in his parents' house in 1991 to sell his game ZZT, renamed it Epic MegaGames and, after the move to Cary, North Carolina in 1999, Epic Games.
- In 2020 he led Epic's challenge to Apple's App Store rules.
- He has bought tens of thousands of acres of North Carolina forest for conservation, including the largest private conservation land donation in the state's history in 2021.
Key facts
- Born
- 1970; raised in Potomac, Maryland1
- Epic Games
- Founded it in 1991 as Potomac Computer Systems; CEO1
- Created
- ZZT (1991); Unreal Engine, first for Unreal (1998)1
- Apple
- Led Epic's 2020 antitrust challenge to App Store payment rules1
- Conservation
- Donated the Box Creek Wilderness easement to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (2016) and 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (2021)1
- Education
- Studied mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland1
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controlling shareholder source on Epic Games
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