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Making

the most

beautiful

things

Visual effects CEO steps up as a

role model for LGBTQ youth

By MELISSA LOWERY
A ndrew Bly knows a little something

about making your own way in the
world. The CEO of Molecule VFX
co-founded the company when he was just 21
years old and built it into a successful, in-de-
mand visual effects studio. He is an example
of being in the right place at the right time,

of taking advantage of opportunities, of being
decisive in the pursuit of a goal – a success story
where small-town boy makes good in the big
city.

“I didn’t grow up in New York, I grew up in the middle
of nowhere,” Bly says when we sit down to chat via Zoom.
“If anything, I just want to offer myself as an example. It
doesn’t matter who you are or where you live, whatever
your dream is, you can make it happen.”
At first, this sounds like another successful person
offering platitudes, the usual “pull yourself up by your
bootstraps, son!” rhetoric of countless “motivational”
speakers. Then Bly continues.
“I grew up in Trump country as an LGBTQ person,”
he says. “I didn’t have role models, really, people out

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