About Success Cards

Success Cards was created by entrepreneur John Uke and is published by Success Cards, LLC. The deck turns 101 essential business topics into cards that help people find their own answers.

Why Success Cards exists

John kept seeing people look outward for answers to business problems that they themselves knew the most about. Books, courses, and coaches all help, but they do not always ask you the right question at the right moment.

Success Cards was designed to fill that gap. Unlike a book, the deck has no required order. You can use it for quick guidance on one topic, plan a business from start to finish, or bring it to a team brainstorm.

The idea was inspired in part by Jesse Schell’s The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses, which uses questions to help designers see their work from different perspectives. John talks about that influence in his interview with Jesse Schell.

About John Uke

John Uke attended Babson College’s entrepreneurship program and has worked in management, business analysis, and executive tech recruiting. He has designed coding schools and taught summer programs at Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD.

He is the founder of four companies, including GameTree, a friend-finding app for gamers. He also has a deep interest in personality psychology, where he designs personality tests, develops algorithms, and leads workshops.