Spencer Bailey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You were a relatively inexperienced young journalist with little formal design background, certainly none in toilets.
I mean, during my interview, I remember saying, I don't know a ton about design, but I love art and I love business.
And design is the combination of the two, which I think was fairly astute.
Didn't they ask you about your favorite architects and you could only name two?
Like Frank Gehry and Frank Lloyd Wright.
You really knocked that out of the park.
But you got the job and suddenly, by the time you're 27, so just like two years later, you become editor-in-chief after a major ownership transition.
I was so freaked out in that moment.
I didn't really know what to do.
You actually described it as a holy shit moment.
I called John Kelly, called the mentors, and I was like, what should I do?
And both of them said the same thing.