Portrait: Coudal Partners

This Chicago agency got rid of its clients and went entrepreneurial


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Who Top row, l. to r.: Jim Coudal, Matthew Jorgensen, Joe Dawson Jr., Bryan Bedell; bottom, l. to r.: Michele Seiler, Trina Foresman, Steve Delahoyde
What Advertising, design and interactive studio
Where Chicago



Coudal Partners might be the first agency that’s proud to have lost all its clients. Not lost, exactly—purged. The seven-person studio, led by Jim Coudal, got rid of its paying clients (whose capriciousness was always a looming threat) to develop its own businesses.

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