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Elan Lee

13 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2023 by Elan Lee · across every show →

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Dec 12, 2023 positive
Insight
Lee: Exploding Kittens designs games that make the players entertaining
“We don't make entertaining games. We make games that make the people you're playing with entertaining.”
Elan Lee Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 32:53 Find co-creators everywhere (with Exploding Kittens Inc.’s Elan Lee) | Masters of Scale
Dec 12, 2023
Disclosure
Lee: Exploding Kittens launched without any fulfillment plan as Kickstarter surged
“I'm watching that thing go from 20,000 to 50,000 to a 100,000, and I am losing my mind because every one of those backers, I've got to figure out how to get a game to their front door, and I had no idea how, literally no idea how.”
Elan Lee Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 16:23 Find co-creators everywhere (with Exploding Kittens Inc.’s Elan Lee) | Masters of Scale
Dec 12, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Lee: Target stocks all four games he co-created with his daughter
“They are now in Target. All four of them.”
Elan Lee Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 41:56 Find co-creators everywhere (with Exploding Kittens Inc.’s Elan Lee) | Masters of Scale
Dec 12, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Lee: Exploding Kittens only ships games that get 100% 'play again' ratings
“When you finished playing our games, there's one question on the whole survey, which is, do you want to play again? That's it. That's all I care about. When a game hits a hundred percent yes, we're gonna ship that game.”
Elan Lee Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 36:28 Find co-creators everywhere (with Exploding Kittens Inc.’s Elan Lee) | Masters of Scale
Dec 12, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lee: Exploding Kittens fulfilled every single Kickstarter backer order on time
“For six months, that's what we had to do to get those things out the door. And we were on time with every single one of those orders.”
Elan Lee Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 30:24 Find co-creators everywhere (with Exploding Kittens Inc.’s Elan Lee) | Masters of Scale
Dec 12, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lee: Exploding Kittens' second, third, and fourth games hit number one
“We produced another game, it immediately shot to number one. We produced a third game, that one shot to number one, which was fourth game, same thing.”
Elan Lee Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 38:17 Find co-creators everywhere (with Exploding Kittens Inc.’s Elan Lee) | Masters of Scale
Dec 12, 2023
Insight
McGinnis: Pad deadlines and lie about dates when managing creatives
“What I've learned is pad your deadlines lie to them, and outlining the cost of what it's going to be if we don't execute by this date.”
Carly McGinnis Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 25:06 Find co-creators everywhere (with Exploding Kittens Inc.’s Elan Lee) | Masters of Scale
Dec 12, 2023
Disclosure
Lee: Resigned from Microsoft within two weeks of witnessing screen isolation
“Within two weeks of that experience, I resigned from Microsoft. I just, I could not be a part of that anymore.”
Elan Lee Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 9:30 Find co-creators everywhere (with Exploding Kittens Inc.’s Elan Lee) | Masters of Scale
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Elan Lee: AI compresses game ideation from months to hours
“And it used to take, you know, months or years. And with AI, I've actually been able to shorten that to sometimes just a few hours.”
Elan Lee Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 2:34 Exploding Kitten's Elan Lee explains his AI collaboration | Masters of Scale
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Insight
Elan Lee: AI accelerates brainstorming by filtering bad ideas faster
“It often won't yield the right idea, but I can usually shortcut weeks Off the process, because it helps me get through all the bad stuff faster, and it helps me find the little tiny sparks that might be interesting, and then I can grab those and dive right in.”
Elan Lee Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 5:33 Exploding Kitten's Elan Lee explains his AI collaboration | Masters of Scale
Jan 31, 2024
Insight
Elan Lee: Games should make players entertaining, not be inherently entertaining
“My fundamental premise behind all game design is that games should not be entertaining. Games should make the people you're playing with entertaining.”
Elan Lee Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 8:49 Exploding Kitten's Elan Lee explains his AI collaboration | Masters of Scale
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Elan Lee: AI suggestions advance brainstorming from square zero to four
“Then to figure out the theme, I take those instructions that I've spent weeks working with an AI to generate, and I feed them right back into the AI and say, become an expert at this game and tell me what it should be called to attract this target audience. An…”
Elan Lee Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 12:04 Exploding Kitten's Elan Lee explains his AI collaboration | Masters of Scale
Jan 31, 2024
Insight
Elan Lee: Game creation breaks down into product, theme, and sales
“So I think game creation from my perspective is really just three phases. You have to create a fun game. You have to come up with a good theme for that game, and then you have to sell the game. And those three phases, I think are really relevant to whatever yo…”
Elan Lee Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 1:39 Exploding Kitten's Elan Lee explains his AI collaboration | Masters of Scale
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