Persson was born in Stockholm,[6] Sweden, on 1 June 1979.
He began programming on his father's home
computer at the age of seven.[He produced his first game at the age of eight, a text-based adventure game. He release Minecraft in 2009. Markus "Notch" Persson made his fortune selling the rights to his game Minecraft to Microsoft in 2014. In September 2014, after selling 15 million copies of Minecraft across gaming consoles, Persson sold out to Micosoft in a $2.5 billion cash deal. On forbes lists