![]() Looking at entrepreneurs and their attitude towards business development, I read that Hugh Hefner had started Playboy from home with a loan from his family after quitting Esquire due to being denied a pay raise. While going through that project, I began thinking about my mindset in 2010, when I was in the early stages of making those products. I began looking at older projects, including a brand of collectibles called PocketHeads that I had designed and manufactured under license from Lucasfilm. On the first day of the lockdown I remember saying to my wife that whatever happened in the coming months, it was a chance to do things that we had been putting off, and there was a slight fear that we may have to evolve very quickly into another income stream. After around five days of being at home, I realized that my day-to-day work wasn't going to be as busy, and I began thinking about the things that I had been wanting to do but didn't have the time to do in a really focused way. ![]() Like most people, I didn't know whether it was going to be a temporary working solution or whether this was the future. The first few days of that lockdown were quite odd, as I wasn't sure how things were going play out. Our company owner had explained that until further notice I would be the only person in my department working from home. ![]() Mark Thomas: At the beginning of the lockdown in June 2020, we were all sent home from work. ![]()
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