Spencer Bailey

Also, the fact that, like, I like to say the slowdown did not slow down in the slowdown.

Yes.

So, like, our company thrived in this moment of global confusion.

To answer your question, my thesis was that the world was going to slow down somehow or need to, whether it was environmental, political, social, all of the things combined.

I guess we would put this in a category of chemical, medical, you know, physical.

But it was not a slowdown any of us could have predicted.

But when it came, and it came fast, it made me realize that there was a place for this company that was beyond what I had even initially anticipated.

The company now includes your podcast, Time Sensitive.

You've done well over 100 episodes at this point.

Yeah, 150 just a few weeks ago.

You have a relationship with Fieden Press.

You are the editor-at-large.

You also do a lot of consulting, branded experiences.

Congratulations.

You really created something exactly the way you intended.

Yeah, or at least evolved it into something that feels very close to the original intent and have not deviated from that intent.

And I think that's really thanks to building a great team, having the right partners.

Again, it's sort of back to what I was saying at the very beginning of it.

I've always been a fewer better person and that includes how I run the company, hire the team.

I realize I'm in a very privileged position to be able to basically say yes to only so many clients, but it feels like the kind of way that I want to do it rather than scaling this up to some $30 million media business that just feels like, again, this like bloated thing that's not