I have an extremely adorable but extremely wacky dog named Uma, who also responds to the name “Weasel” (pictured).

I am, as the Internet will tell you, co-creator of the hugely successful and category-defining party card game Cards Against Humanity.

The story about how this happened is interesting, but I strongly suggest not assuming that my experiences are in any way “typical”.

As an undergraduate, I had no plans of working in game design or as an entrepreneur. Neither I nor any of my co-creators had ever taken any classes on business or entrepreneurship, nor had we participated in any incubators or mentoring programs for start-up founders. While a few of us had parents who had founded or led a small business, broadly defined, none were in the toys or games industry, nor in any allied field like retail distribution, consumer goods, or logistics. However, I attended multiple (excellent) talks given by Alex Seropian, a prominent young UChicago alumnus known for his success in the highly competitive video games industry. I’m honored to now be placed next to him (both figuratively and literally—scroll all the way down on this page) on list of prominent game-creating UChicago alumni. But I fervently believe in “paying it forward” and I do so by mentoring first-time entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

If you have a question about or for the company Cards Against Humanity, including questions relating to how to work for or with Cards Against Humanity, please go to this page.

If you believe that you qualify as a first-time (or new) entrepreneur from a non-traditional background, or if you have created something cool but don’t know what to do next, especially because you have been unable to find or lack access to any family members, teachers, or professors with entrepreneurial experience in the relevant industry (or you aren’t even sure what industry or field your new creation fits into), please email me at eliot [at] cardsagainsthumanity [dot] com or at my UChicago email address. Put something related to “Mentoring” or “New/First-time Entrepreneur” in the subject line, and try to make it NOT look like AI wrote the email. :)

If you are a visual artist, illustrator, or designer and are concerned about companies violating your intellectual property rights, including by using your work to train their AI models without your permission and/or without compensating you, please take at look at this work done by some of my UChicago colleagues and classmates, called Nightshade.