
Kwame Taylor-hayford
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Jun 15, 2026
#74: Kin’s Kwame Taylor-Hayford on specificity over scale
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Brian WieserHOST
And then secondly, how involved, again, given your size, is a finance function involved at this stage or are you just kind of using intuition, knowledge, experience? I'm curious about how those two

Kwame Taylor-HayfordGUEST
I think having a commercial mindset is really important for us because we've tried to not limit the company by size of opportunity or size of client.

Kwame Taylor-HayfordGUEST
You know, we work with Yobato Foundation, for example, which is a much different organization and has much different means when it comes to storytelling and brand building and marketing than Delta Airlines, who's another client of ours that we've done work with over many years.

Kwame Taylor-HayfordGUEST
So we're very thoughtful and very intentional with how we approach securing projects, setting them up, staffing them, and then ultimately going about the work of developing the ideas and outputting the creative.
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Brian WieserHOST
But what is sort of the strategic direction if you're guiding this ship in a certain direction? What does the business look like in a couple of years? We will
Kwame Taylor-Hayford - Co-Founder of Kin & D&AD President
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Kwame Taylor-HayfordGUEST
So... getting coffee, taking notes, making copies, helping anyone that needed anything, really.

Kwame Taylor-HayfordGUEST
Because you get to hang out with the creatives, you get to speak to clients, you get to work with the people in the design department, the people in media.

Kwame Taylor-HayfordGUEST
So it was really fulfilling from that standpoint, just to understand the business in a fundamental way.

Kwame Taylor-HayfordGUEST
And then through that, it became very clear to me that what was most exciting to me was being closer to the creative and closer to the work.
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