Minecraft wiki entry for Lydia_Winters, associated text: By June of 2011, Winters sent an email to Mojang asking if she could interview the creators of Minecraft at that year’s E3. Carl Manneh, the CEO of Mojang at the time, replied, asking her if she could host a portion of their booth dedicated to Minecraft on the Xperia Play.[3] She accepted, and was soon at the booth in Los Angeles. Manneh was so impressed with how she acted that he had told the rest of the staff that Winters would be hired. She was then hired on June 28, 2011, and flew to Stockholm that December.[3][5]