Elan Lee
15 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 22, 2025 by Elan Lee · across every show →
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Dec 22, 2025 neutral
Dec 22, 2025
Lee: Exploding Kittens will only do screen media if tabletop remains core
“The deal I kind of made with myself was as long as the core of this company is always Board games, tabletop games, things that inspire face-to-face interaction. I am okay exploring expansions in these other realms that feel like they are serving additional exp…”
Dec 22, 2025
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Dec 22, 2025 bullish
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Lee: Service agency models are exhausting because revenue stops when you sleep
“It's, it was a service business, right? So. You're constantly hustling. Yeah. So we would make money as long as we were working. And every night I would go to sleep and think, I'm about to go to sleep for eight hours. And during those eight hours, I'm not maki…”
Dec 22, 2025
Lee hand-animated visible breath effects for Titanic's famous floating door scene
“I got to briefly work on Titanic. You know the scene at the end of Titanic where they're on, on the door, the famous door scene, right? They're in the freezing cold water.
When they're talking to each other, you can see their breath. The thing is that was fil…”
Dec 22, 2025
Lee: The Chernin Group invested $40 million in Exploding Kittens
“And so it took a few months of negotiation, but we finally took an investment from them. They invested forty million in the company, and immediately they got to work at helping us expand, figuring out, like, alright, how do we build a TV show, and how do we bu…”
Dec 22, 2025
Exploding Kittens set its $10,000 Kickstarter goal based on minimum print costs
“If I contact a local card manufacturer, I was like, what's the minimum order? And he said you have to produce a thousand decks of cards. Like, that's the minimum here. I was like, cool, ok, fine. And I was like, well, how much does that cost? And he said, oh, …”
Dec 22, 2025 bullish
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Dec 22, 2025
Exploding Kittens used a furry vending machine costume to outdraw convention competitors
“We built a vending machine costume. And eight hours a day, our little team would sit inside this horribly cramped space, pushing watermelons and cantaloupes and hot burritos out the front of this vending machine to this crowd. And the crowd grew, and they love…”
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Lee: Card games should pit players against each other, not the game
“My whole principle behind the thing was, every card in this game should invite an interaction between you and another player. So, I really wanted this thing to feel like you are playing against players. You're not playing against the game. Everybody is playing…”