EPISODE 3 - Dec. 4th | Scott Mager

You Shoulda Been There

Dec 5 2020 • 55 mins

Ep. 3 - SCOTT MAGER, Principal at Deloitte Consulting, was employee number 4 at AGENCY.COM and a founding member of "The Pit" which is where all the magic happened. He also built the original BIG RED BUTTON™

Episode Timeline

2:08 Dress-Up Fridays Origin

3:30 How I Found AGENCY . COM

6:10 Creating the First Hitachi Website (With Visuals!)

9:35 Tapenet™

11:15 The Originator of the "Geek & Tell™"

12:57 The Move to 665 Broadway

14:30 Urban Desires - You Could Do Anything

17:20 Creating the Big RED Button™

21:60 "I'm a designer, but I'm also color blind..."

26:55 The First Gif89a Ad Banner for Apple... within an hour of release!

27:57 Live-Streaming the Concorde in Times Square

31:30 The Immersibility Index

36:45 Pep Talk: "Figure out what sucks. Don't do that!"

38:45 Why it Really Hurt When Scott left

39:40 "What have you carried forward from those early days?"

46:18 Perfecting Your Craft

47:50 How Do You Translate "Small Company" Spirit into (very large) Deloitte Digital?

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