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Sam Shepler ’11, M.S.P.C. ’12, Gabe Gerzon ’11, M.S.P.C. ’12, and Alex Dunn ’11, M.B.A. ’12 talk to the Worcester Business Journal Online<\/a> about the founding of their media production company Skyscope in 2012 — and the company’s recent acquisition by Matter Communication of Boston.\r\n\r\nBelow, an excerpt:\r\n\r\n“DUNN:<\/strong> We realized that the tech market worked really well [for us] and then we kept going bigger, bigger, bigger and now we are working on a project for Google… People just trust us now that we have video and have names under our belt.\r\n\r\n“SHEPLER:<\/strong> We all had been or became experts in our own areas, and we all shared a lot of the same values, which is so important to have.\r\n\r\n“GERZON:<\/strong> One thing they don’t tell you when you start a business that becomes successful is there is this quiet transition from doing the work all the time to managing the work … It’s really difficult because, automation is the wrong word, but you want your brain in everyone else’s so the aesthetic is the same and the quality is there.”<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"