JOEY It’s a collective of people that had this trajectory that never once in their mind thought they were going to be working for a photo booth company. WN Did the persona of “the Bosco Boys,” this lively effervescent group of boys as a selling point, develop on its own?ĮRIK It happens to be the people we hire. When I moved here about a year and a half ago, Nick was talking to Aaron about doing a photo booth company and I was talking to another of my friends about doing a photo booth company, so we took the ground work, paved way, and it kind of turned into this. We saw a photo booth at a party one time and we’re like hey, like, we can probably make that. WN Why did you want to make a photo booth company?ĭENNIS Um, it was something that Nick and I kind of did in college for beer money, basically. Dennis does all this cool shit.ĭENNIS What do I do? Is that the main draw?ĮRIC The company is know as the first gif booth. JAKE I would never describe myself that way. JOEY We kind of associate with people that are like, kind of post-collegiate bohemian creative types that are broke. And people love that.ĮRIK And all of that comes from Nick and Aaron, who founded the company. JAKE We figure out interesting ways to tie in technology and social media into photography. But we’ll do everything from Cindy’s Bat Mitzvah to the Lady Gaga tour, that’s how we describe it. We’ve always been pulled to these high-end interactive media installations so it’s something we’re trying to capitalize on. We do a lot of music festivals, fashion events, corporate parties, harping on this candid fun, goofy experience that’s trending now in terms of creating content at events. So, Bosco, we do event photo booths on a rental basis. I’ve been doing like, events as an event worker for a while, but um, I’m more recently full-time. There was a period of time with no work and Aaron was nice enough to let me start working Bosco events. I’ve never had that.ĮRIK After Sandy the shop got really fucked up. I got hit by a car.ĮRIC Hashtag: startup life. JOEY Lived a mile from the nearest subway.ĮRIC It was a mile from the nearest subway. JOEY Living in a warehouse under the Long Island Expressway.ĮRIC In a warehouse under the Long Island Expressway. I was doing carpentry and metal working with an artist… Hashtag: startup life.ĮRIK I’m Erik, I went to school with Joey. WN That’s the fun thing about startups right?
Bookings, events, meetings, client relations - everyone kind of wears like, seven hats here. When this got started, I started working events, then doing project management and that led to all of the sales stuff. I thought I was going to go to grad school right away for design and then I ended up in New York becoming a male model. JOEY You know Lena Dunham? You heard of her? JAKE Where’d you guys go again? Kenyan? Kenyan college? I know all these people basically from Oberlin where I went to school. That’s a common thread - we all have little things that we do.
I do client relations and long-term relationships and projects. JAKE I actually grew up with Aaron, one of the founders. WN How did you end up on this couch today? If you’ve been to a corporate party in the past year, you’ve likely shared space with The Bosco – a gif photo booth – and The Bosco Boys - the charismatic group of party boys manning the machine and the helping to steer the startup’s success.
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