James Patterson

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661 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Jun

James Patterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Yeah.

Yeah, well, my first career, I was in advertising.

I rose up at J. Walter Thompson, which at that point was the largest advertising agency in the world.

And everything I did there was some reaction to disruption.

The way I got in the place, the normal way was you would put together a book, a portfolio of advertisers.

I didn't know anything about it.

I'd never taken any advertising courses or marketing courses.

So I put together a portfolio and I brought it into them.

And a week later, I brought in a second portfolio.

And the week after that, I brought in a third portfolio.

And that just disrupted the process.

They'd never had seen that particular thing before.

And that impressed them.

So that was a disruption.

At one point, I started running.

I was still pretty young, but I was running their New York office.

They had some good offices.

New York wasn't one of them.

And nobody wanted to go work there at that point.

And I ran an ad in the New York Times, and the headline was, Write If You Want Work.

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