![]() ![]() I had an incredible boss who encouraged us to experiment, gave us the freedom to learn in the field and bring our ideas to life – even the wacky ones. I was a kid with a camera, excited to see the world and somehow translate those experiences into videos. ![]() Weeks later, we were hanging with amateur rocketeers at a NASA-Ames parking lot, filming them firing rockets into the sky.īack then, digital video was still young. Seconds later he was blasting through dozens of ideas – each one more bizarre and fascinating than the last. ![]() After he submitted his article I somehow persuaded him that making videos could be fun. I ambushed the office – five desks and a frazzled Ashlee banging away on his keyboard crashing against a deadline for Bloomberg Businessweek. ![]() He had a hunch that Ashlee Vance might have some quirky ideas that would make for even quirkier videos. 10 years ago, my boss at Bloomberg suggested I pop into our Palo Alto office during an upcoming week of filming on the west coast, and introduce myself to "an interesting reporter character." ![]()
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