Robert Angel Rob 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, Rob 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.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Keith Corner
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Getting out of my own way. On a mental standpoint I over thought everything sometimes and I over reacted. So I had to get out of my own way that was a big roadblock. And physically there was production issues that we had to overcome. And one of them was collating those first thousand games, half a million gamecards by hand. It took 16 hours a day with me and my two partners and a friend. And on the surface, it sounds like a horrible experience”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet MillsFavourite Quote:
“no one will love your product or your vision as much as you do”
Recommended Online Resources:
YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other 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]
More About Robert Angel:
- Game Changer
- Robert Angel
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.” Robert Kiyosaki
Other Quotes From the Chat with Robert Angel:
- “trusting your instincts. I think when you are enjoying the journey is the secret to success in any industry. If you are not enjoying yourself there is going to be struggles… If you are enjoying the process and you take it for what it is and it will help you to keep moving forward. I kind of use this one example of ‘I may not have all of the answers but I know what the answers aren’t’… As an entrepreneur you know what is not going to work so get rid of those things. Let those good things, the positive things, the good ideas enter and just don’t let all the negativity or let the things that are preventing you from finding your focus. You will find it eventually; you may not know what it is but you know what it’s not”
- “I think I would have searched out and found more mentors. It wasn’t I wasn’t looking for them but I was kind of in my own little world… I would have liked to have found and listen to more mentors”
- “nobody will have your best interest or your products best interest more than you will. So, hold on tight to that, hold on tight to yourself, respect yourself, respect your product that is the prime directive myself and my business”
- “being creative is putting two different things that didn’t quite work together”
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