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Side Hustle School

#1132 - TBT: Epic Scavenger Hunt Becomes 6-Figure Income

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship,, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from a Bostonite who has followed his childhood dream of producing scavenger hunts to a booming, mutl-city business. On your mark ... get set … listen!


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0:00.0

Welcome to Throwback Thursday slash Where Are They Now, where we take an in-depth look at someone

0:09.8

who's story has evolved considerably since we first featured them.

0:13.9

So far in these features we have had a New York City musician with a blog teaching jazz,

0:18.2

it becomes a multiple six figure business, and a former tech employee who sources sat

0:22.4

in pillowcases from China, and also ends up growing a very significant side hustle turned

0:26.9

full time income.

0:28.8

Well today in our latest feature, well here from a guy I got to hang out with in Boston a

0:32.3

while back, his name is Chris as well, and he's really interesting because what he's doing now

0:37.3

at the age of 48 I believe is exactly what he wanted to do when he was 10.

0:42.3

At that young age he was attracted to games of all kinds and scavenger hunts in particular.

0:48.2

He now runs a company, which was started as a side gig of course, that produces these hunts

0:52.6

all across Boston, hand now other cities in the Northeast as well as Chicago and Miami,

0:57.0

maybe some other destinations as well. He has evolved as he's gone along and he's still going

1:01.9

strong, but it's been a while since we featured Chris, so what's happened since? Let's hear directly

1:07.3

from him and I'll be back at the end to wrap us up.

1:18.6

My name is Chris Damian-Akos based out of Boston and I was part of episode 128.

1:27.0

My side hustle is cash hunts and I'm a game producer where we produce premium scavenger hunts

1:34.7

that based out of Boston, but we have spread the game into other cities within New England

1:43.1

and as well as the Northeast. What are games involved? To our scavenger experience is where

1:51.8

we take the group, you know, it could be as small as eight players, you know, right up to 200 players

1:58.9

depending on the type of event, where they would be obviously broken into teams. We provide them

2:04.8

with all the practical materials they'll need in order to play. A game booklet that contains all

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