One of the best things about working here at Envato is that we have an awesome team of people building, managing, writing, reviewing and working on our sites. Yep, things have come a long way since the early days when there was just a few of us trying to do everything!
Recently our awesome Tuts+ interviewer Emil asked if I minded being video interviewed with some questions put forward by the Psdtuts+ readers. Since no-one really wants to see my enormous head on screen for too long a period of time, I asked my lovely wife and partner in crime Cyan if she’d be in on the interview and we thought we’d put up the video to help celebrate 3 years of Envato.
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The more years I rack up behind a monitor, the worse my eyesight seems to be getting. These days I have no patience for reading small text on-screen, and this has wound up reflected in my web designs of late. A prime example is this very blog, theNetsetter which is a really simple WordPress theme I designed with the primary goal of readability in mind. Read More
As a young company that is growing (relatively) fast, one of the challenges we face at Envato is to create and keep the right company culture. Today I came across a really brilliant slide presentation from Netflix about their company culture. It’s a really fantastic manual and one I can see I’m going to be referring back to over and over as we grow Envato. Read More
Back in the summer of 2001 when I was in my final year of university, I had a part-time job at an internet cafe. It was in a dingy old pub with prehistoric computers and a barely-better-than-dialup connection shared amongst fifteen computers. Because it was such a crappy internet cafe no-one ever really went there. So I found myself with plenty of time to learn Photoshop, HTML and to dabble in PHP.
At that time the Dotcom Bubble had recently burst and though there were some ragged survivors like Amazon, the majority of the high flying, aeron buying, dotcom elite had come and gone. I used to sit in my internet cafe waiting for the nonexistent customers and think, “If only I had gotten into this web stuff five years ago, then I could have been part of all that excitement!” Read More
To look at a guy like Woody Allen, you’d never think he had a chance at being a household name and a famous comedy star. I mean, let’s be honest he’s a bit odd looking, has a very peculiar manner and if you met him on the street you’d think he was just an amusing eccentric. When he was asked some years ago how he came to success, his reply was that "80 percent of success is just showing up". Early in his career with nothing happening, he just used to go to every single audition, party, event, opening, anything that was going on.
People like to talk about luck being a factor in success, and you could say that eventually that’s exactly what happened, Allen got lucky. But of course the message in this story is not that he got lucky, but that he set it up so that he could get lucky.
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