We’re looking forward to introducing you to Tyler Seller. Check out our conversation below.
Hi Tyler, thank you for taking the time to reflect back on your journey with us. I think our readers are in for a real treat. There is so much we can all learn from each other and so thank you again for opening up with us. Let’s get into it: What’s more important to you—intelligence, energy, or integrity?
Most important to me in my line of work is integrity. I feel like intelligence and energy come out through integrity. If you’re a passionate person especially with your own company and are truthful in business and what you commit too, integrity carries all those characteristics. Customers value integrity in knowing what they’re getting as a product. Also that you’re proud to work with them using your wisdom and energy to deliver a client with amazing work. If you have a standard that has to get met, and you love what you do integrity is the most important for businesses and people in general. It is one of the key ways to succeed in the creative world.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Tyler Seller, I am the founder of Masshole Media and with 400 creatives worldwide we are the first cost efficient media and production company. We source for clients worldwide in music, entertainment, corporate etc. to help last minute jobs get filled expectations exceeded. We send people locally to help save on budgets without accommodations, food and travel to help you grow globally. Think of it as Uber for creatives!
I first got this idea in college when I was not able to make a lot of money with my camera as a Mechanical Engineering student, but had a big creative circle to give others opportunities to grow a portfolio and get paid. Over the past 3 years these creatives have trusted me and helped this idea get to where it is today working with some of the top clients in music and entertainment.
Okay, so here’s a deep one: Who saw you clearly before you could see yourself?
I would say record labels and artists were able to see right through me when I couldn’t. I was just trying to grind my way through trying to get any events, connections and show my idea works when I didn’t know if it really worked. Obviously in this industry free work to prove yourself is common and I was doing that to show artists we can really help them in any part of the world. It got to the point where these “free trials” were adding up with hundreds of clients. Those clients were all referred to by artists and labels we worked with and it wasn’t for a while until we realized that. We constantly felt like we had to prove this new idea in a constantly evolving industry because it hasn’t been seen before. That is when I saw myself and the value I held to all the people who saw it before me.
The real breaking point of that realization was a label tried to buy my idea and use it for their artists exclusively to save money, and have me manage the logistics. They gave me one hour to decide. I thought if they see something in me that’s valuable enough to pay me that number then I have a really good idea. It could be way bigger than that amount. So I said no, and that was the point I realized with my team we can start making money on this idea, that it fully works and I can finally see myself and what I am doing clearly.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
I am still young, but I feel like I’m in my 50s with all the experiences I’ve been through. I would definitely say to my younger self that you always helped people and were selfless and thankful for friends and experiences good or bad. Along with that comes manners making it a habit to say thank you and understand how much people do for you. I was never popular by any means, but I would talk to everyone. Help people with homework and people who moved to town and were new to school, I would always be friends with them to make sure they weren’t alone and had a support group. I would work so hard to help make other kids days better than my own and I think that has been the most rewarding thing to look back on now. Giving other people opportunities to get them one step closer to where they want to be and being a part of the journey and taking my own steps it is super rewarding. The gratitude and saying thank you goes such a long way for me in business now.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Whom do you admire for their character, not their power?
A mentor to me has been Zach Katz and working both with him and for him on major projects around the world has been eye opening to see. Zach was the president of BMG, a prominent music label, former COO of Faze Clan, and is currently running a company called Fixated, which is an agency for streamers and influencers worldwide. We have been happy to coordinate and create content and production for their list of clients over the past year.
For me it’s about learning how people are the way they are, and how they think the way they think. And he is an open and straight to the point giant in multiple industries that has taught me a lot about good business, integrity and how to provide more value and what industries are looking to see. On top of all that he has showed me how to be confident and not be afraid to say what I need to get stuff done, what I want from clients and if a line is crossed to be able to step up and put my foot down to protect my creatives and myself.
It is incredible to have a mentor who has been around multiple industries successfully to learn from and work with to get achieve the same goal.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
I think I have been put in a unique position to be able to travel the world for work and create cool content, but most importantly understand people and places all over the world. Every time I go to work it is something new. I’m meeting new people, doing something I’ve never done and having those stories of what I did, how I did it and who I did it all with.
Learning about people from every background whether it be growing up in an amazing family never having a problem, to learning from someone incarcerated for 10 years is always incredible. You understand their mindset of their life, their decisions and why they are in the same room as you in that moment.
You are meant to be in rooms with the people in front of you, it might not be people you recognize, but you have to talk and understand about them and how they can help you. We go through experiences that are amazing and are horrible and to other people they can be perceived the same or different based off of what happened in their own lives which is beautiful to understand.
People are incredible and it’s how we learn and understanding people as a whole leads to gaining characteristics like adversity, comprehension and diversity. Those qualities are all found in every person but it takes opening up the cover and putting in effort to get to that point.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Massholemedia.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tyler.seller?igsh=OHZ1MG9ranVtMWU3&utm_source=qr
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-seller-b2784b133?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@massholemedia0?si=rYkZq_PL899Ne60G
- Other: https://www.instagram.com/massholemedia?igsh=M2F0anoyNG82Ynp5
Image Credits
Lil Wayne photo by Tyler Seller
Billie Eilish photo by Tyler Seller
2Hollis photo by Tyler Seller
Ken Carson photo by Tyler Seller
Coldplay wide shot photo by Tyler Seller
Tyler & Cono photo by Macky Langsam
Amalfi photo by Lauren Serbst
Paris photo by Stephen Seller
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