Ondernemerschap

Sjoerd Banga
2019-01-12
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Het ondernemerschap geeft je vrijheid, maar beteugelt je tegelijkertijd. Vrijheid heeft mij altijd veel creativiteit en besef van verantwoordelijkheid gegeven. Dit was het geval bij mijn werkgever in de it totdat die organisatie te groot werd. Om mijn creativiteit weer terug te krijgen heb ik toen besloten om voor mijzelf te beginnen. Mijn it-achtergrond komt nu erg goed van pas doordat film, internet en andere media meer en meer digitaal werden en door elkaar heen zijn gaan lopen. Ik voltooide de opleiding tot Multimedia Engineer aan het College of Multimedia in Amsterdam met uitmuntende resultaten. Vervolgens startte ik met Banganimation, vervolgens Up North en Studio 78A. Hierin kan ik mijn liefde voor zowel film als nieuwe media kwijt.

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Sjoerd Banga

During my teenage years I already new it; I'm going to do something with computers or film. The digital era wasn't really there yet and that is how I rolled into 's why I started out in IT. A great period, during which my curiosity about how things work got satisfied in abundance. Film was a hobby for which my technical background was a blessing. The company I worked for kept growing in the meantime. The IT-department kept growing until we were almost with 1000 of us, but losing the personal contact with the customer; the people for who we built all those beautiful systems with useful tools. Work became more and more abstract. All those years I kept my fondness for film and all these hours filming and editing with my brother taught me the basics of storytelling. Camera's became digital and soon thereafter I decided to quit my job. The reason for this wasn't money, but to get a chance to focus on people again, and their stories. A few years later I also started doing photography and another few years later I picked up building websites. During all this period I realised I could tell stories. Not only my own, but also the stories of other people. What makes them tick and why do they do what they do.