• The Board Game Billionaire: From a $10k Kickstarter to $100M/Year Business

  • Apr 21 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
  • Podcast

The Board Game Billionaire: From a $10k Kickstarter to $100M/Year Business

  • Summary

  • Want your own $100M side project? Get our guide to win your first 100 customers: https://clickhubspot.com/wfp Episode 699: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Elan Lee ( https://x.com/elanlee ) about growing Exploding Kittens from a $10K Kickstarter campaign to $100M dollar company. — Show Notes: (0:00) Humble Success: Exploding Kittens Insights (8:07) The origin story - From 10k to $9M on kickstarter (16:17) Focus on the crowd, not the funding (20:41) Games should not be entertaining (23:52) The Kitty Test pilots (27:57) $0 marketing hacks (38:49) Pushing past the ‘no’ (41:07) Business as a game (45:32) Creativity loves constraints (54:28) Irritation is the source of innovation (59:13) Designing a game with Tim Ferriss (01:04:08) Do what never makes you bored — Links: • Exploding Kittens - https://www.explodingkittens.com/ • Paxsite - https://www.paxsite.com • Elan on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mrelanlee — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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