Chatting with Ambrotom about his come up in the global creative scene. Stories about his early days reselling Yeezys, getting featured in Vogue all the way to social hacking his way into Ian Connors circle.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:24 Marketing first approach to creativity
3:50 Reselling Yeezys
7:08 The designer rabbit hole
7:34 Influence of Gosha Rubchinskiy and Lil Peep
10:00 Falling in love with marketing
13:00 Helmut Laing t-shirt design competition
16:19 Vogue + social validation
16:30 Social hacking and sending DMs to strangers
18:18 Losing followers in the beginning
18:49 Sydney creative scene and Saiko
21:00 Making it up as you go
22:00 Hacking social connections using mutual followers
27:33 Lancey Foux
30:00 Impact of underground producers
36:00 Working with Columbia records
40:59 Korean Jesus
41:50 Why Russia instead of Los Angelos?
45:00 Being comfortable with life being out of your control
46:04 Developing fearlessness through hardship
47:25 Letting go
48:28 Surviving in Russia
50:00 Russian mentality
55:00 Making friends on the internet
58:29 Outro
