Lane Merrifield

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · The Double-Edged Sword of the "Shark Tank Effect" with Club Penguin Cofounder Lane Merrifield · 1 Oct 2025 podcast

If you don't always do it well, sadly, you get the media headlines that have been out there.

And I'm not going to pick on any one company, but there's a handful of kids-based entertainment companies that have rightfully so gotten in trouble because they just tried to ignore a lot of the regulations and a lot of the policies that are put in place, frankly, to protect kids.

I would, but I would want to see who their first, second, and third employee was or who their co-founders were.

Because I don't think you have to be a parent to be a great founder of a space like this.

But like any entrepreneur, you better know your weak spots.

If you and your roommate from college had fun hammering beers together, so now you're going to go do a startup because you read some article and you think there's a big opportunity there.

It's the most dangerous thing because you end up ignoring each other's blind spots and driving each other right off the cliff.

So I would want to see your employee table.

I'd want to know how many of them are parents and I'd want to know what level of access they have to you and what level of influence they have over you and your decisions.

Totally.

Absolutely.

It was surreal, to say the least.

It was surreal.

And negotiations, I mean, we went all over the place.

There was other companies involved.

It wasn't a sure thing.

But I'll tell you one of the craziest parts about that.

So I grew up in Southern California, was Canadian by birth, but grew up there, moved back to Canada, and that's where Club Penguin was formed.

But I remember in the process of moving from Southern California, which for anyone who's lived in Southern California, especially if you grew up there, you kind of believe it's the epicenter of everything.

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