Childlike Game Development Enthusiasm
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Sam and Shaan discuss meeting the creator of Exploding Kittens, a wildly successful card game.
"My whole perspective on games got completely changed when we hung out with the guy Elon at Exploding Kittens. I don't know if he's going to reveal anything when he comes on the podcast, but the numbers are shockingly large.
He felt like a 12-year-old - he had the excitement of a 12-year-old. He was so into games and making people smile via these games that I was like, 'This guy's crazy.'
He was showing us this game that was half done, and he had a pen that he had written in different points on the cards. He was making the game as he was going and saying, 'Wouldn't this be cool? Let's change the game to this.' He was doing it in real time while we were playing. It would be like playing poker and he's like, 'We should come up with an ace means this.'
The numbers are bananas. He said, 'Of the top five most popular games in the world, we make number one, two, four, and five.' It was amazing how successful that is, and I was like, 'I should start a game company.'"
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.