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Noah Kagan Presents

The Crazy Story of Spikeball

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Chris Ruder is the founder and CEO of Spikeball.

The funny thing about Spikeball is that it was invented by a different guy named Jeff Knurek in 1989. It was only in the market for a few years before quickly dying out.

Chris was actually an early player of the game as a kid, saw its potential, decided to find the game as an adult, and turn it into a successful business. 

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0:00.0

if you have like this quirky little company in general people are rooting for you

0:05.1

you know they like rooting for the little guy and somebody that's trying something

0:08.4

different I think a lot of people like helping because being an entrepreneur of doing their own thing, but few people actually do it.

0:21.0

What is up you sexy bastards?

0:25.0

It is your boy wasabi, aka Rabbi Can't Lose,

0:27.4

aka Noah Kagan.

0:28.5

In today's episode, I talk to the founder of Spike Ball,

0:31.6

Chris Rudder.

0:33.0

Now this is a game if you haven't played it.

0:34.4

It's taken over the world by Storm, super popular.

0:36.8

But what's actually funny about it is it was invented by a different guy

0:40.0

in 1999 named Jeff.

0:41.8

Now Chris was actually an early player of it as a kid and kept thinking

0:45.2

about it and as an adult when he had a day job thought, huh, maybe I can go find that product and

0:49.7

turn it into a business and he has done exactly that. It's been on Shark Tank, Today's show and it's all over parks and beaches across the world.

0:57.5

If you ever want to learn about Spike Ball, how to start a popular consumer brand, you are going to love this episode make sure you go give

1:03.4

them love and check them out at spikeball dot com I own one I love playing it number one

1:08.0

how people with impressive resumes might not always give the best advice to the power of having a viral element built into your product, and three, why you should

1:16.5

build a personality behind the brand.

1:18.6

Enjoy those three things, plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

1:21.5

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1:24.3

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