Show Notes
Kamil Tyebally is the founder of Early Spring NYC, a company that works at the crossroads between events, culture, connection and marketing, to create immersive brand events. Kamil’s is an unusual story, and he starts by telling Anne how he went from Singapore to Myanmar to Thailand in his teens, and how he first discovered that life experience could match academic performance. His early passion for taking pictures led him to follow a path in photo-journalism in NYC at first, and Kamil explains about how his father sparked his adventurous spirit, which led him to meet his future self in Mexico City and develop two book projects that took him to Algiers (Algeria) and later to Baghdad (Iraq). Coming back to NYC, Kamil landed in marketing and business development. But, he tells Anne how he was set on getting a job at the innovative Fake Love company. This mission took him on a journey to explore culture, connection, technology and empathy — where, at the end, he found himself as the co-creative for immersive experiential events at Fake Love. Kamil’s artistic leanings and his keenness to find what makes people tick is neatly encompassed when he talks with Anne about creating value beyond transaction and sparking moments of connections at his events. Kamil launched his company, Early Spring, just before the start of the pandemic with the objective (and the tagline) of ‘engineering serendipity’ — which he describes as finding what people need before they even know they need it themselves. The two close the conversation by discussing vulnerability, instinct and finding a connection to their roots. A wide-ranging and fascinating interview with a thoughtful entrepreneur. Happy listening!
*** Selected links from episode You can find Kamil on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamiltyebally/ on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nyiskillingme/ His company website is https://earlyspring.nyc/ His personal website is - http://www.nyiskillingme.com/ Fake Love - https://www.linkedin.com/company/fake-love/ Refinery 29 - https://www.refinery29.com/ 29 Rooms by Refinery 29 - https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/29rooms The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda The School of Visual Arts in NYC - https://sva.edu/ Algiers, the Algerian capital - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers L'Usage du monde, the book by Nicholas Bouvier - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Usage_du_monde and in English 'The Way of the World' The Stranger, book by Albert Camus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel) The song New York is Killing Me by Gill Scott Heron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiuorrXsngM Amritsar in Punjab - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amritsar An Era of Darkness, the book by Shashi Taroor - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32618967-an-era-of-darkness *** If you enjoyed this episode, click subscribe for more, and consider writing a review of the show on Apple Podcasts, we really appreciate your support and feedback. And thank you so much for listening! For all notes and transcripts, please visit Out Of The Clouds on Simplecast - https://out-of-the-clouds.simplecast.com/ Sign up for Anne's email newsletter for more from Out of the Clouds at https://annevmuhlethaler.com. Follow Anne: IG: @_outoftheclouds or @annvi
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