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Every company, studio and side project starts with a blank page. These conversations go deep on the first twelve months — the bets that worked, the ones that did not, and how our guests kept going when nobody was watching yet.

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Why the best ideas start as side projects

Priya Nair on building a 40-person design studio from a weekend hobby — and why she still protects time for projects that might go nowhere.

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