Robert Angel is a speaker, author, and entrepreneur. His forthcoming book is Game Changer: The Story of Pictionary and How I Turned a Simple Idea into the Bestselling Board Game in the World (June 2020). In 1985, using a few simple tools, a Webster's paperback dictionary, a No.2 pencil, and a yellow legal pad, he created the phenomenally successful and iconic board game Pictionary®. Putting together the first 1000 games by hand in his tiny apartment, Angel mastered all the needed business skills including sales, marketing and distribution before selling the game to Mattel in 2001. Today, he makes his home in Seattle where he is involved in philanthropy and mentors young entrepreneurs.
“you kind of act like a spider because what he does is… You’ve got this web and you look at it you see it go oh my gosh it’s amazing, it’s beautiful and he doesn’t plan that spiderweb, he doesn’t know where is going to put it, he just kind of stands there, jumps, total intuition somewhere else. And he goes okay here I am now I go back and start making my web and get the points down… Just jump, wherever you land then you go different direction and you just keep going until you get that web built”…[Listen for More]
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