#order up hours and hours spent reading about lenses and photography, not playing with the girls, two plates of nachos, two or three extra brandies at least, two stupid TV shows (awake thirsty as fuck at 3:59) you can't leave without paying (2015) > In the summer of 2015, aged 36 and living in New York, I quit my job at a major publishing house, a career that had been 15 years in the making, to start my own business as a freelance editor and writer.  > Veenendaal left school with no qualifications, set up an internet agency that did live broadcasts by knocking on the doors of local homes to borrow telephone lines, and swatted up on running a business by reading Corporate Finance for Dummies. He set up Heldergroen, which translates as Bright Green, in 2003 – based first in Utrecht and later in the tiny city of Haarlem on the North Sea coast near Amsterdam.