I am not a tall man, but I'm also not a fat man, even though I like Southern food, a lot. How did I get here? In 2004, I was almost done getting my MBA, (see: depletion of bank account) and having worked previously with agencies in San Francisco, there was no interest in graduating only to return to advertising unless it was with a place like W+K. My old colleague Mark Fitzloff asked me to pop in, and when I did, he said, "dude, if you have the chance to work here, take it. You won’t regret it." He was right, and more than 8 years later, with four of those years being in the Amsterdam office, this is the best place I've ever worked.