Allbirds

“We done a million dollars in sales in the first month.”

“Our charter says we have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders, and we have a equal responsibility to the environment. And so if Tim or I are no longer in the business, and some other person takes over, ah, they still have a responsibility to do what …”

“The factory in Portugal decided to go bankrupt right at the end of this shortly after we just delivered it.”

“The factory's made the men's and women's shoes exactly the same size.”

“Well, first of all, I realized that wool to Americans meant hot and scratchy. So all of a sudden you actually had to talk about merino. It's a different shape. And it's a finer material and it's softer and then you also had to talk about not just the material,…”

“And instead of keeping the recipe a secret, they've actually open-sourced it so that anyone who wants to make soles out of sugar can do it.”

“It's like when you start something, this thing embeds six inches in your brain, and you don't shut it off, and it's a voice that's there, 24 seven all the time, and you're constantly thinking about it, and I, you know, I retired from sport, and I, That, that h…”

“Doing it alone is really lonely, and I'd always been of the opinion that if I was gonna do a business, I wanted to do it with someone, cause I knew my shortcomings were substantial, and that I would much rather have a piece of something big than a lot of somet…”

“Comfort is the number one reason why people buy shoes, and comfort often is equated with ugliness, so if your dad tells you he's got a comfortable pair of shoes, you assume they don't look very good”

“We sold one style, the Wool Runner, for 14 months. We didn't do anything else except sell the Wool Runner.”

“We don't believe that there needs to be the tension between financial success and success for other purpose-driven aspects of our business, and namely the environment for us. And I think that's true for a lot of businesses.”

“People don't buy sustainable products. They buy great products.”

“With the help of you know, some friends at the time put together a grant on a whim to develop a woolen textile for making the upper of a shoe out of.”