#339 - Cards Against Humanity Inspires Six-Figure Party Game

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Two friends in their twenties create a “nonsense” party game. Ten years later, they turn it into a side hustle that is now sold at Target. Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, sideosool school listeners, welcome back.
0:06.5	My name is Chris Gellibot.
0:08.0	Even in a digital age, board games and card games are seeing a renaissance.
0:12.6	Perhaps you've noticed this yourself, perhaps you've played some board games or card games.
0:16.3	I recently read that on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms, board games now
0:20.0	raise more money than video games do, which is pretty amazing considering how much cost
0:24.3	goes into making a video game.
0:25.9	Now, some of this can be traced to the popularity of cards against humanity, or I suppose you
0:30.3	could say that cards against humanity as a result of this renaissance.
0:33.5	Whatever the story is there, our story today concerns a different party game that two
0:37.2	friends created for fun a decade ago.
0:39.8	Only much later do they think, hey, maybe there's something to this, we should try making
0:43.3	a go of it as a small business.
0:45.2	As you'll hear of that decision led to a massive success, but it all started with something
0:49.0	very silly.
0:50.0	Stay tuned and I'll tell you all about it.
0:52.2	Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.
0:59.2	But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.
1:07.2	So you can stay one step ahead.
1:09.4	Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill.
1:12.8	On a tandem, what, mate?
1:14.8	With a messer on the back.
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