Inspiration can come from anywhere and I love the fact that YouTube exists not because it means I can watch cats on skateboards but because I can revisit old TV ads that I remember fondly and struck a chord with me.
Below is an old TV ad for the Prudential from 1989 when I was 17.
The poor, harangued, frustrated bloke who squashes his plastic cup in a darkened office resonated even at that age when I didn’t actually have a boss.
It didn’t matter.
What mattered to me was the idea that I could do my own thing, on my own terms, and be my own boss. So I suppose I took as much inspiration from that ad as I did from any schoolteacher.
