Month: January 2025

Agency Journey Episode 53 (Y18M8)

January 31, 2025
by Peter Kang
Leave a comment

I’ve told a few people that these days, working on Barrel Holdings feels a lot like the early years of Barrel (circa 2006 – 19 years ago!), especially the first 2-3 years when it was just myself and Sei-Wook. We were figuring things out and continually excited and drawn to different possibilities. One thing I realize in hindsight is that many of our early explorations and side projects (non-client work) planted the seeds for what […]

2024: An Annual Review

January 5, 2025
by Peter Kang
comments 2

This marks my fourth annual review in this format. Check out 2023, 2022, and 2021. I spend hours each month reflecting on my work, usually through the writing of my Agency Journey series. 2024 marked a big change in my career as I, along with my Barrel co-founder Sei-Wook, moved from being day-to-day operators of an agency business to becoming portfolio managers – we now oversee six agency businesses under Barrel Holdings and are working […]