Driven & Co.

Nate Martin, Co-founder and CEO of PuzzleBreak, talks with host Justin Gray about his childhood dream to make video games, lessons learned from his first startup and advice for people considering entrepreneurship –– all on the the latest episode of Driven: How Did I Get Here?   Can you explain the escape-the-room concept? At a high level, these are rooms where groups of players - friends, family, strangers or co-workers - are trapped. They have a set amount of time, usually an hour, to work together to find hidden clues and solve puzzles to unravel a mystery and escape that room before time runs out.   When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? The only thing I ever wanted to do was make video games. There's a huge market for that. Did that come to the light of day? I actually went to the DigiPen Institute of Technology, which had a focus on making video games. After that, I went to work for Microsoft. Over my seven years I got promoted a number of times, but was still eight leve