Tymon
I don’t come from a traditional creative background, and it was never my dream to start this business.
I studied Business and Economics at the University of Amsterdam. During that time, like most people, I tried out multiple part-time jobs. Some of them were in restaurant kitchens. It was in a small and chaotic kitchen that I found out how crazy that life is — long hours, adrenaline, sweat, but also a true feeling of camaraderie and being in the shit together.
As fun as it was, I don’t think I was cut out for it for multiple reasons. But nevertheless, I was intrigued, and I gained a lot of respect for the people spending so many hours in the kitchen, dedicating their lives to this craft.
After coming back from my exchange, I put the money I had saved from working in restaurants into camera gear.
YouTube is something I lived by when I was younger. Vlogs, gaming, product launches, car reviews, challenges… I consumed it all, and in excessive quantities. Something about it was so exciting. I started multiple channels. None succeeded, but the passion for creating stayed.
I would go around restaurants asking if I could make them a free YouTube video. Most said no, but one said yes. From there, my interest grew around restaurant marketing, food content, and again, I was going around town making free reels and videos. Some were better, others not so much. But one year from my first YouTube video, we got our first client.
Valerie
At this point, I was working at a big corporate office.
Waking up every day, only to feel like the days were passing by while I was stuck behind my desk. But that’s what you’re supposed to do after studying Business Administration… I guess.
If you’ve ever had a mind-numbingly repetitive job, you’d probably agree that almost anything in comparison starts to seem fun.
I asked Tymon, “Do you need a website?” He said yes. Turns out, making that website would slowly mean taking on a part-time role in the business.
This was also around the time he had to file his first VAT return. God, he hated it. “Can you file this?” he asked.
After a couple of months, I was a part-time accountant, part-time web developer, part-time photographer, and still a full-time corporate employee. Coming home from a long day of work just to work some more was, at times, a little much. But it was still too early to fully commit.
Within six months, trying to keep both things going was too much. I had to make a choice.
I could stay in the safety of my job, or I could commit to something that felt uncertain, but also exciting in a way my job never really was.
I have since left my job, and now I run the business together with Tymon, handling the websites and photography.
Us
Everything we’ve learned has come from curiosity, experimentation, and practice. There isn’t a day that goes by where we don’t become better at what we do — not because we have to do this, but because we chose to go down this path.
Tymon and Valerie
