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, 21yearold 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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