In late January, a handful of social media CEOs were hauled before Congress to testify about what they were and weren’t doing to project kids on their services. Noticeably absent from the group was Roblox, the gaming-meets-hangout platform that is, to put it mildly, quite popular among young people. 

“I watched that, and I had so many thoughts and so many feelings because we’ve been building safety for going on 20 years,” Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki tells me. “And so after I saw that, independent of the Senate hearing, I thought, ‘I have to get out there and start talking to these people.’”

And so he is: Baszucki is embarking on his first big trip to Washington, DC, to meet with lawmakers, many of whom are increasingly looking to put more legal restraints around companies like his. He’s going because these coming regulations will hit Roblox whether Roblox is in the conversion or not.