2015-06-30
1 小时 10 分钟I am so excited about this because I wish I had this in my hand when I was 21 years old, leaving college, not knowing what I was going to do, I wanted this in my hand.
And that's what we're doing.
We want to build this beautiful inspiration tool.
Brad Smith has had a whole lot of success in his life, along with a lot of bombs like every entrepreneur has had, he's existed largely in the online world, coming out of Missouri and then building almost inadvertent entrepreneurial ventures into the digital world.
Then the design world.
He kept growing new businesses, building them, selling them, and moving into different places, until finally he ended up as the executive publisher of the great Discontent, which started out as this extraordinary website with in depth features, with creative professionals, but made a really bold move.
About a year ago, they decided to publish a print magazine.
When all the world is saying print is dead, they're the contrarians.
And not only publishing a print magazine, but publishing a large format, gorgeously photographed, art style magazine with a level of investment and quality that you literally see as almost like a coffee table book, but it comes out on a regular basis.
So why would they do this?
Why would they take such a bold contrarian move?
And who is Brad and what's the journey that's informed him that shaped his entrepreneurial lens, his design lens, his artistic lens, and would make him leave so much of his history in the online world to go back and embrace print so boldly along with his entire team.
That's just a part of the conversation with Brad Smith in this week's Good Life project.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project.
I'm really excited to just jam with you and have a conversation.
I actually first was exposed to you when I saw you on profile in the greatest content.
I was like, huh, really interesting story.
Then I feel like I blinked and I'm like, wait, you own it now, what happened here?
But your journey is just really fascinating.