Behind the Scenes of Escape Rooms

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Escape rooms are one of my favorite hobbies… and they’re also a VERY weird business idea. Today, I talk to Jon from The Escape Game — one of my favorite escape rooms ever. Learn how Jon created such a weird business, how he turned it multi-city, and more.

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0:00.0	We were clearly on the front end of what seemed to be a big wave.
0:04.1	The danger there being that big waves in Europe and Asia don't always become big waves in the US.
0:08.8	It wasn't a certainty by any means.
0:10.8	This has really potential to be far bigger than we ever thought it could be.
0:14.0	We're going to try to build a national company here.
0:16.0	What is up you sexy bastards? It's a boy cortado,ado aka. A. Kagan.
0:24.0	I got admit something I love to do.
0:26.0	Play escape games.
0:28.0	These are rooms that you pay money for and then you have 60 minutes or so to escape.
0:32.0	I know it sounds really strange.
0:33.9	My good buddy Jordan from the Jordan Harbinger show,
0:36.2	you gotta check out a show.
0:36.9	He and his wife Jenny got me into it
0:38.9	and we are addicted.
0:40.3	Me and my girlfriend Liar.
0:41.6	And we play them whenever we travel. We've done
0:44.0	over 50 of them and honestly I fail about half the time if not more but heck
0:48.8	they're super fun and I highly recommend you trying one out next time you get a
0:51.8	chance.
0:52.7	So I wanted to find out who the F are these people making these games, how do they actually
0:56.5	make these games where you have to use locks and clues to get out, and how profitable are they.
1:01.2	So today I talk with the founder Jonathan Murrell of The Escape Game, that's the Escape. are they time. If you ever want to learn about being on the front end of the wave of a huge
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