My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.
I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
I'm a New York businessman.
I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.
I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.