Our Artrepreneur now is Thomas Griffin, Founder of Art Square, a social marketplace which connects artists with professional photographers to get their images digitized and online.
Thomas first ventured into the art world when he started the online art gallery, Emineo, in 2012. He then brought on technical co-founder Christopher Smith and rebranded Emineo Art Gallery to what ArtSquare is today. The platform functions as a print on-demand service: prints of original works aren’t made until they are sold, so costs stay low for both the artist and ArtSquare.
This interview is slammed with amazing quotes from Thomas. Cheers dude.
Here are the highlights of my funky conversation with Thomas:
06:33 : His introduction to buying and selling art in college through eBay, starting an online college gallery and the fulfilling feeling of helping artists gain stability in their career,
10:35 : How he learned frictions points to gain insights on how to solve problems and analyzed what are valuable to artists to gain participation to this online commerce that he built,
12:38 : Always wanting to be an inventor, starting to be an entrepreneur in college and learning what makes him feel alive and makes him excited in working with creative people,
19:25 : His challenges and the scariest things that he went through such as raising investment for the business and moving to the West Coast,
24: 32 : Keeping up with the daily grind and harder aspects of balancing a business and his long-term vision for Art Square,
30:15 : Figuring out his life hacks by going to the beach, reading fiction, travelling, working out, playing sports and getting rowdy in the weekend, and the culture he is building in Art Square, and
39:25 : His experience in crowd funding and the things that he would do differently if he could go back to the past.
