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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.

This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.

Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.

Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.

Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.

Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.

He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Americans say that they weren't given much notice. I mean, one senior American commander told me they'd been given 12 hours notice, which is virtually unheard of. I mean, the Saudis and the Americans coordinated virtually everything. Mohammed bin Salman is saying we are no longer under American tutelage, where we have to tell them well in advance what we're doing.

The Americans say that they weren't given much notice. I mean, one senior American commander told me they'd been given 12 hours notice, which is virtually unheard of. I mean, the Saudis and the Americans coordinated virtually everything. Mohammed bin Salman is saying we are no longer under American tutelage, where we have to tell them well in advance what we're doing.

We're going to go and do it, and then we'll sort it out afterwards, and you can live with it.

We're going to go and do it, and then we'll sort it out afterwards, and you can live with it.

There's been an unprecedented anti-corruption purge with sweeping arrests of senior politicians and business leaders and members of the royal family.

There's been an unprecedented anti-corruption purge with sweeping arrests of senior politicians and business leaders and members of the royal family.

A U.S. intelligence report has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally approved the murder of the exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

A U.S. intelligence report has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally approved the murder of the exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.

On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.