#821: My Two-Year Secret Project, COYOTE — The Strategies and Tactics for Building a Bestseller from Nothing with Elan Lee of Exploding Kittens

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferris Show boy. This is a special one. I'll keep my intro brief as my conversation with Alan Lee, which you're about to hear, covers the whole backstory. This is a very, very, very Fun episode for me, one I've been looking forward to publishing for months and actually about two years, because my brand new card game, Coyote, created in collaboration with Alan and Exploding Kins, which started with this podcast. is now a national bestseller. It's everywhere. just launched to eight thousand locations worldwide, including Walmart, Target, Amazon, and gajillion others. It's a very fast paced car game, takes minutes to learn, hard to master, hat tip nylon, butnell, and three hundred million plus social views of gameplay now online. Everything's going bananas.

And please check it out. Please, please check it out. If I've done anything that you've benefited from, coyote game.com. And there's a lot under the hood that I think you might find of interest, even if you're not a gamer, you don't think about yourself as playing games. CoyoteGame.com, super, super satisfying the entire team at Exploring Kittens. is incredible. They're rock stars. A pleasure to work with. So enjoy my conversation with Alan Lee. We talk about the art of the pitch. We talk about figuring out mass retail. We talk about prototyping. We talk about game development. We talk about the nuts and bolts behind the scenes backstory of creating something like this. From Nothing. One last thing, stick around to the end for a very fun surprise that involves a Mystery Hollywood party that you might be able to join. Would love you to join. So stick around. Please enjoy right after just a few words from the partners who make this podcast possible.

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