Fortnite’s Leader Makes a Career Crusading Against Big Tech

  • Gaming mogul fought Microsoft before taking on Apple, Google
  • Apple wins latest round in legal tussle against Epic Games
Tim Sweeney
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Tim Sweeney has made a habit out of picking fights with Big Tech.

Half a decade ago, the billionaire founder of Epic Games Inc. sparred with Microsoft Corp. over the way the software giant treated small application developers. Now he’s launched a legal broadside against the biggest app stores in the world with a lawsuit alleging that Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are a harmful duopoly.