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Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings I told you beforehand, I have the best job ever because I basically find brands that I love, like Cotopaxi, and then I get to interview the founders.
- ▶ 14:11 Harry Stebbings How does Cotopaxi come to be? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:20 Davis Smith And so for us with Cotopaxi, I always tell people we're not a backpack company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 Davis Smith It's quite a bit bigger than it was, uh, you know, back when, you know, back when I went to college, when I went to grad school, but, you know, it's a relatively small business compared to Cotopaxi, but, uh, we converted to a benefit… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:41 Davis Smith And this is what's unique, I think, about Cotopaxi.
- ▶ 27:34 Davis Smith I'm trying to figure out, and I'll just tell you, I haven't talked publicly about this, but earlier this year, about 12 months ago, I, I knew I was leaving the company, leaving my CEO role to go, uh, lead a mission for my church, uh, in… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:16 Davis Smith Was I scared to leave Cotabaxi? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:51 Davis Smith Let's just look at the Cotopaxi case, because that's the case I know the best, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:04 Davis Smith And it turns out, you know, the name Cotopaxi is named after a volcano in Ecuador where I lived as a teenager.
- ▶ 54:45 Davis Smith Um, you know, the cool thing about Cotopaxi is like our mission has always been about our purpose. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:46 Davis Smith I've been very specific in Cotabaxi about identifying core values, about being, uh, specifically creating rituals and traditions that reinforce the values.
- ▶ 1:04:18 Davis Smith And, um, I was so convinced 12 months ago that I would never take this company public, that I didn't want to sell it to anyone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:40 Harry Stebbings Are you back at Cotopaxi? 3 times in the scene
20 VC: Are Unicorns Necessary To Make Big Returns and The Series A Crunch with Sumeet Shah @ Brand Foundry Ventures
- ▶ 5:45 Sumeet Shah What's very interesting about is the combination of factors of where you have repeat entrepreneurs that are really coming in, like, for example, David Smith of Cotopaxi, who we invested in, you know, raised a three million dollar seed, um,…