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How ‘Exploding Kittens’ Founders Turned Their Best-Selling Card Game Into a Netflix TV Series and Mobile Game
Former Xbox designer Elan Lee and The Oatmeal cartoonist Matthew Inman launched the first “Exploding Kittens” card game in 2015 via Kickstarter and raised $8.7 million for the initial game in the first 30 days. Since then, they’ve released nearly 30 …