#1693 - Failure Friday: “We made a ton of investment … then we decided to close.”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Nate Martin, the founder of America’s original escape room. His business, Puzzle Break, now has locations worldwide—but an early expansion to San Francisco turned out to be a puzzle he couldn’t crack.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:35.2 | Have you ever been to an escape room? I have had the good fortune of taking my WDS team, |
| 0:41.6 | the team I work with on the World Domination Summit. I've taken them to an escape room, I think |
| 0:46.8 | three or four times now. In just in case you aren't familiar with escape rooms, it's kind of a fun |
| 0:51.9 | group activity or a team building activity where you and some of your friends are placed into a room |
| 0:58.4 | that has all these puzzles and clues and you have to find your way out. Basically, you have to |
| 1:03.8 | solve a mystery of some kind. You usually have an hour and the goal is to solve it as quickly as |
| 1:09.1 | possible. The company running the escape room maintains a leaderboard of how quickly people have |
| 1:14.1 | been able to solve the puzzles in the past. It's a lot of fun to do with people you know. I don't |
| 1:18.9 | think I'd want to do it with strangers myself, but that could just be me because I'm super |
| 1:22.7 | introverted. I'm talking about escape rooms right here at the top because today's failure Friday |
| 1:27.9 | segment comes to us from the founder of America's original escape room. But first, failure Friday, |
| 1:34.3 | what's that about? Well, glad you asked. It is a collection of short stories about mistakes, |
| 1:38.7 | missteps, disasters, and of course failure. We're sharing these stories of something that went |
| 1:43.8 | really, really wrong and what did the person learn from it? I really appreciate and applaud the |
| 1:49.2 | courage of all these side hustlers, small business owners, entrepreneurs, sharing stories. And today's |
| 1:55.2 | short story, as mentioned, features a guy named Nate Martin. He's the founder of Puzzle Break. We |
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