Author: faical.allou
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The Board Game industry is thriving (AI Deep Research on the Industry)
1. Recent History of Board Games Board games surged in popularity during the 1930s. During the Great Depression, classics like Monopoly (debuted 1935) and Scrabble gained traction as affordable home entertainment. Parker Brothers, nearly bankrupt before Monopoly’s success, now counts it as the all-time bestseller, with over 250 million copies sold. Post‑World War II, family and war…
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What Board Games do that Videogames cannot
You know how books and movies are two totally different ways of telling a story? Books let you live inside someone’s head—feel what they feel, think what they think, but ask you to focus and think yourself. Meanwhile, movies hit you with the visuals and the soundtrack, without the mental effort of imagining the scenery.…
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Why do I make Board Games in 2025?
Clearly: we’re living in a time when thinking is kind of… optional. Don’t get me wrong—I love tech. I use AI every day. It writes my emails and helps me brainstorm. We’re in an age where everything can be streamlined, predicted, and optimized. And that’s good… moslty Let’s be honest: it’s never been easier to…
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How to decide on an MVP
We’re hiring a lot right now, so I’ve been going through tons of case studies and interviews. One thing that keeps coming up is the MVP—how to decide what it actually should be. In these case studies, the context is always that you’re a travel tech company looking to launch a new vertical. There are…
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Travel industry and purpose
In the travel industry when I got into conversations with teams about “purpose”, I heard a few times things like “We’re not curing cancer”. Obviously, we’re not but it misses the point. I don’t think that extending people’s life is the only valid purpose someone can have at their job. I for one love traveling…
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My thoughts on Product Management Interviews
I see some talks about “Product Sense” and it reminded me that I wanted to post this for a long time: “Product Sense” is in the Red Dot barely touching the Green Instead Let me explain what we are looking for without mentioning Product (non-) Sense. We value the following traits in Product Managers:–…