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"The first person to believe in NationalField before we believed in ourselves was Jeremy Bird. He was a field director at the Obama campaign. We thought we built a social network just for us, just for the three founders to manage volunteers on the Obama campaign. And he was the one--he was the field director of Ohio--he said, 'Come out to Ohio; let's make it work here.' And that's the founding of NationalField; that's where it all really took off." -- Edward Saatchi

Question

Who was the first person to believe in you?

Edward built the online infrastructure for the Obama campaign in 2008 and modeled the NationalField product after it. He is the son of Maurice Saatchi of the Saatchi & Saatchi global advertising agency network. He claims that he works eighteen hours a day, six days a week, and lives out of a bag as he jets between offices in San Francisco, Washington and London.

Topic

SXSW

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