They Quit Their Jobs—And Took Over Tinseltown
Marie Claire - US|October 2019
Ever want to ditch your job and start your own thing? The women behind the Lede Company made that leap and now run one of the most powerful PR firms in entertainment.
Stephanie Clifford
They Quit Their Jobs—And Took Over Tinseltown

On a Friday morning in June of last year, Meredith O’Sullivan, Sarah Rothman, and Amanda Silverman gathered in O’Sullivan’s Santa Monica living room. The hard-charging public-relations executives headed up divisions at 42West, a giant bicoastal entertainment PR firm representing A-list celebrities and companies. But for the moment, the drive that fueled their rise to the top was on pause. They fidgeted in their chairs, left their breakfast untouched. They were about to quit their jobs to take the biggest risk of their careers: starting their own PR firm, the Lede Company. “We were nervous as hell,” Rothman remembers

The three coworkers had started out in various entry-level gigs in the industry and worked their way up. Silverman had been a receptionist at an entertainment PR firm, where she learned on the job. Rothman had started in public relations in college, doing outreach for the governor of North Carolina, her home state. She’d been planning to go into politics when she heard about a communications job at Miramax in New York. The pop-culture fan “flew up on Wednesday [to interview], moved on Saturday, and started on Monday.” O’Sullivan, who went to college in Los Angeles, pitched in on an acquaintance’s L.A. event for a celebrity couple, where someone recommended she interview for a corporate PR job. She was so green that “when I went into HR to interview, the guy says, ‘We don’t have a job in corporate right now; we have talent jobs.’ I literally was like, ‘Oh, I don’t have any talent.’ ” After he explained that the job wasn’t to be an actor but to represent them, O’Sullivan got her first gig.

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