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Jumping On Trampolines Is Big Business | Strange Success | CNBC Make It.
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The Platt family launched Sky Zone in 2002, hoping to start a new type of professional sport...on the trampoline. That didn't work, and in a desperate move to make money, the company stumbled onto a winning model: charging people to jump for fun. Then when cancer struck the family, 21-year-old Jeff Platt suddenly became CEO. Ten years later, there are 140 Sky Zones franchised in five countries, with total revenues last year of $240 million.
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