Jens Bergensten Jens Bergensten Jens "Jeb" Bergensten is a Swedish video game designer. Since December 2010, he has worked for the video game developer Mojang as a programmer and game designer. He became the lead designer and lead developer of the indie sandbox game "Minecraft", after Markus "Notch" Persson stepped down from his position in December 2011. He is known by his in-game name "jeb_". Bergensten started programming his first games at age 11 using BASIC and Turbo Pascal. By age 21, he was a mapper and modder for the first-person shooter "Quake III Arena". Later he worked as a C++ and
Mojang of Kibera in the Nairobi area of Kenya. On 15 September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to acquire Mojang for $2.5 billion in a deal made official on 6 November 2014. With their stakes in the company bought out, the three founders, Markus Persson, Carl Manneh, and Jakob Porsér left the company. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that a major reason for acquiring Mojang was HoloLens. In February 2018, server support for "Scrolls" ended, with Mojang having ceased development of the title. The game was re-released the following June, as a free-to-play product, structured around community servers, with the new