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Holiday: Refused to hire agency employees to avoid uninteresting projects
“When I had my marketing company one of the reasons I never wanted to hire employees was that I was skeptical that there were enough projects that I would be interested in working on to pay for the people, which meant if I hired someone, they would represent a …”
Holiday: Rejects private equity because it eliminates founder autonomy
“I've expressed no interest in doing that because like, to me, part of the whole joy of doing it is not having a boss and not needing to get at a, to a certain level or do a certain amount of things, which you are foregoing when you bring on somebody else.”
Holiday: Creative work is his unscheduled default when calendar is empty
“For me, if the calendar is empty, then I'm spending that time writing, reading, thinking about, like, my creative work. That doesn't get scheduled. That's the default. So if there's something in the calendar, then suddenly everything else I'm doing pivots arou…”
Holiday mandates a $1,500 hourly upfront strategy session for new clients
“All my clients, even ones I know I want to work with, I start with a paid strategy session. Right. So, I charge, like, 1500 bucks an hour and we get on the phone, and, like, you can send me a little bit of stuff, but almost no prep, and then we get on the phon…”
Holiday: Establishing the next project before finishing prevents existential angst
“There's a couple parts of my process that are integral to the output that I have, which is one, I always have the next idea set before I finish writing. The one that I'm on. So there's not this sort of, like, existential angst about, like, what I do next.”