# Philip Rosedale on Reddit (u/PhilipRosedale)

Part of Founders and CEOs on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/philip-rosedale

Philip Rosedale: Founder of Second Life.

- Reddit account: [u/PhilipRosedale](https://www.reddit.com/user/PhilipRosedale/) (Personal account)
- How we know it's theirs: [His 2021 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lqpsvs/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/IAmA (13), r/secondlife (3)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2021 to 2026
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rosedale

## Moments

### u/PhilipRosedale in r/IAmA, Feb 23, 2021 · Early days

Replying to a redditor:

> Hi Philip - we met many years ago on SL, I was a fairly well-known content creator and we chatted on a few occasions. Whatever happened to Starax? And what is the future of SL? (I left many years ago, but notice its still going).

> I don't know what happened to Starax, but I can certainly say that his Wand was one of the coolest things I had ever seen, and it gave me real hope that Second Life was going to make it.  His wand was something like $50USD (if I remember), and it was the gift everyone was dreaming of getting in SL one Holiday season.   Who wouldn't want a magic wand that makes a 3D locomotive appear and drive through you and your friend if you happened to type "train".

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lqpsvs/i_am_philip_rosedale_founder_of_second_life_and/goi1so7/ · 53 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/PhilipRosedale in r/IAmA, Feb 23, 2021 · Personal story

Replying to a redditor:

> Would you like to return to investing your time with virtual reality and virtual worlds again? What would you do differently?

> I'll be working on virtual worlds in one form or another until I die.
>
> I'd like to see a physics/simulation model that creates some sort of low-level digital 'atoms' that are used to build everything, using a decentralized compute model.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lqpsvs/i_am_philip_rosedale_founder_of_second_life_and/gohscnv/ · 314 points as of Nov 7, 2026