Not so in the Escape Room Geek challenge, where startup employees are physically trapped in a room, with one hour to find the hidden investment check, or bye-bye unicorn status. PanIQ Entertainment opened their San Francisco-based Geek room in 2015, and say it’s popular with Google and Oracle employees. The escape room concept is simple; a team of people get locked up for an hour with a number of challenges. There are now around 6134 escape rooms worldwide according to the Escape Room Directory, especially impressive since the trend started in 2005. “Escape from startup hell is a new concept,” says Andrew McJannett-Smith, founder of Dallas-based Escape Expert.

Source: Forbes January 17, 2017 19:12 UTC