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Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:18 Guy Raz I mean, I mean, we had, we did exploding kittens on this show.

Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever Dec 22, 2025 · 32 mentions

  • ▶ 2:47 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Elon Lee and his partners turned a random card game about cats into a hugely successful game company, Exploding Kittens. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:33 Guy Raz Exploding Kittens, the company, has sold around sixty million games around the world. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:13 Guy Raz All right, so this is where, where we finally are going to get into Exploding Kittens, because as I understand it, you, you brought a deck of cards with you to Hawaii, and, and what, you've been tinkering with, with an idea for a game…
  • ▶ 30:16 Elan Lee And we'll call the game Exploding Kittens instead.
  • ▶ 34:29 Elan Lee Uh, over the course of just a few weeks, we put this package together that was the very first version of Exploding Kittens.
  • ▶ 54:07 Elan Lee For the first few years, honestly, for the first, like, 10 years, Exploding Kittens is very consistent at hitting that.
  • ▶ 57:51 Elan Lee It's not like anything you put out there is going to be as big as Exploding Kittens, because we were staring at one evergreen product, Exploding Kittens, and our second one, after just 12 months, completely disappeared. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:41 Elan Lee And I looked at this game, and I thought, this feels exactly like when I approach Matt with Exploding Kittens.
  • ▶ 1:08:39 Elan Lee A lot of it was just building a roadmap for the next five to 10 years for the company. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:10:59 Elan Lee Um, Exploding Kitten sales go up and down. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:42 Elan Lee Yeah, when my daughter turned four, I was so excited because I thought, oh, well, first I'm going to play Exploding Kittens with her and all of our other games, and I realized that like, she's just too young for them. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:16:16 Elan Lee Yeah, and even the first one, even Exploding Kittens, continues to pull in just huge amounts of money every year. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:19:20 Elan Lee and I realized we need a, a mantra for the company.
  • ▶ 1:22:45 Guy Raz That's Elon Lee, co-founder of Exploding Kittens.
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