Most RSPS owners dream of a server that keeps its players for a year. Pim de Witte built one that pulled in millions, made him a teenage millionaire, and became the first step towards an AI company that OpenAI wanted a piece of.
A boring car ride and a simple game
Pim taught himself to code at 13, out of pure boredom, during a long car ride to Italy. His first real project was a simple game: SoulSplit, a RuneScape private server.
It blew up. SoulSplit drew a player base of millions from all over the world and became one of the biggest names on the RSPS toplists back then. In 2014, Pim told the Dutch newspaper AD: “By 14, I was already earning 10,000 euros a month.”
A company run by teenagers
By the time Pim was 19, SoulSplit was a real company. It had around 30 employees and made about $1 million in revenue in 2013. The headquarters was in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, where 23 young developers worked. The oldest was 20, and two were just 16. They started at noon, because most of their players were in America.
Pim himself had moved to Miami by then. “I’ve been very lucky,” he told the AD. “At first I wasn’t even that good at programming.”
The team was already working on a next game, Soulblocks, described as a kind of online Lego you could keep building on forever. Pim also built a data system for Doctors Without Borders, so aid workers could see where reinforcements or medicine were needed most.
Medal and the $500 million offer
After the RSPS years, Pim co-founded Medal, a platform where gamers capture and share gameplay clips. Millions of clips meant something valuable: a huge library of real people playing real games.
In late 2024, OpenAI reportedly offered around $500 million to buy Medal, because it wanted that gameplay data to train its AI models. Pim turned the offer down.
General Intuition
Instead of selling, he went after the opportunity himself. In October 2025, Pim and three co-founders launched General Intuition, an AI lab that trains AI agents on gameplay video. It started with a $134 million seed round, one of the largest on record, and has raised much more since.
Why this matters to the RSPS scene
The RSPS scene often gets written off as a bunch of kids running servers in their bedrooms. Pim’s story shows what that “bunch of kids” can turn into. Running a big server means handling a community, an economy, a team and a lot of pressure, often before you’re old enough to drive.
SoulSplit started as a boring car ride. The next big story might be starting on a server on our RSPS list right now.
Sources: AD, “Pim (19) leidt succesvol Nijmeegs gamebedrijf” (27 February 2014, in Dutch). The Next Web on General Intuition and OpenAI’s offer for Medal.