CATAN: Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders
Masters of Scale17 Jul 2025

CATAN: Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders

The board game CATAN has sold 45 million copies worldwide since Klaus Teuber invented it 30 years ago. It’s Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders. He sat down with brothers Benjamin and Guido Teuber, who now run the business of CATAN, to talk about how they’ve kept the game evolving, why its core philosophy of strategic collaboration still resonates, and what entrepreneurs can learn from trading sheep for wood.

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