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🗓️ 17 July 2025
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The board game CATAN has sold 45 million copies worldwide since Klaus Teuber invented it 30 years ago. It’s Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders. He sat down with brothers Benjamin and Guido Teuber, who now run the business of CATAN, to talk about how they’ve kept the game evolving, why its core philosophy of strategic collaboration still resonates, and what entrepreneurs can learn from trading sheep for wood.
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0:37.6 | JustWorks is the human resources platform that knows your employees are more than just employees. |
0:44.2 | They're your people. |
0:45.6 | People like the show producer on the East Coast who's constantly juggling, schedules, studio |
0:50.2 | bookings, and last minute edits before an episode drops and sometimes has a question about |
0:55.6 | payroll that they need an answer to right away. Luckily, they can reach out to JustWorks for 24-7 |
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1:12.5 | To learn more, go to justworks.com, JustWorks for your people. |
1:18.9 | Playing a game, especially Katan, makes you get to know that person much more than endless hours |
1:26.3 | of just conversing because it brings out the real |
1:29.0 | nature. |
1:30.2 | This week on Masters of Scale, I talk with Ben and Gido Toyber. |
1:35.9 | They're brothers who grew up playing the hit board game Catan because 30 years ago, |
1:41.4 | their father Klaus invented it. |
1:51.0 | Now the brothers run the business of Katan with more than 45 million games sold worldwide. We'll talk about why I think this game, where players pretend to develop an island by gathering resources, building roads, and forming trading alliances, |
2:01.6 | is the best board game for entrepreneurs. |
2:05.3 | The publishing company was so overwhelmed because they got all of these orders. |
2:09.8 | They thought it was an April Fool's joke too late in the year when they got these orders. |
2:14.4 | And then the retailers said, no, no, we mean it. We want that order. |
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