Tim Sweeney

About Tim Sweeney

Tim Sweeney is cofounder and CEO of Cary, North Carolina game developer Epic Games.

The private company is the maker of Fortnite, one of the world's most popular games, with over 400 million players.

Epic raised $2 billion in April 2022 from the Lego family office and Sony in a funding round that valued the company at $31.5 billion.

Fortnite was removed from the App Store in 2020 when Epic added a direct payment system to keep Apple from collecting a portion of in-app purchases.

In September 2021, a federal judge ordered Epic to pay Apple $6 million, but also ruled that Apple had to permit links to other payment options.

Epic Games is also the creator of the Unreal Engine, one of the most used game development tool kits for other studios.