Blake Mycoskie
29 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 29, 2017 by Blake Mycoskie · said 38 times in 6 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Guy Raz (22), Paige Mycoskie (16)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 32 mentions in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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May 29, 2017 bullish
May 29, 2017 negative
May 29, 2017 positive
Mycoskie: Committed half of personal wealth to investing in social entrepreneurs
“We made a real conscious decision to take half of it and commit it to investing in social entrepreneurs, so that's a big part of my life now is actually investing in the next generation as a way to solve problems that, that we are faced with”
May 29, 2017 positive
Mycoskie: TOMS sold 2,200 pairs online in one day after LA Times feature
“So I did interview her, told her the story, you know, emailed her a picture of one of the shoes, and the next Sunday, it was like on the cover of the calendar section of the LA Times, and that day we sold 2200 pairs on the website.”
May 29, 2017 neutral
Blake Mycoskie: TOMS was originally conceived as a one-time philanthropic project
“It was like, okay, there's 250 kids in this village. I want to come back by Christmas and give them all a new pair of shoes. So I'm going to go sell these shoes, and I'm going to come back, and then we'll figure out what we're going to do. Like, it was not a b…”
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May 29, 2017 bullish
May 29, 2017 positive
Mycoskie: For-profit giving models are more sustainable than charitable donation drives
“Dependent on other people's donations, and what if they don't do it, and, you know, that doesn't seem like a very sustainable way to give these kids shoes, and then that led to, you know, well, what if there was a business, you know, instead of a charity and d…”
May 29, 2017 negative
Blake Mycoskie: Never pitch property owners by calling your proposal an 'idea'
“The thing you don't ever want to do, especially when you're 22 years old, and you're trying to talk to, like, 50 and sixty-year-old people who own apartment complexes, you don't want to use the word idea. Because if it's just an idea, then it's like, you're no…”
Feb 11, 2019 positive
Business models are more sustainable than relying on recurring charitable donations
“That's, once again, dependent on other people's donations, and what if they don't do it, and, you know, that doesn't seem like a very sustainable way to give these kids shoes, and then that led to, you know, well, what if there was a business, you know, instea…”
Feb 11, 2019 positive
TOMS scaled revenue from $300K to $450M in its first seven years
“At that point, we were, I mean, we did the first year in business, I want to say we did about 300,000. In the second year, we did about three million. And the third year, we did Like, fifteen million, and the fourth year we went to, like, sixty million. Wow. I…”
Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019
Mycoskie raised $750K for Reality Central by pitching reality show winners
“And my idea was, is to go to all the winners of the reality shows of the last two years, and get them to invest.
Guy Raz: You said you guys should all invest, let's start a reality TV channel, because you guys won.
Blake Mycoskie: Yeah, and you got the money…”
Feb 11, 2019 positive
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A chance encounter at a Buenos Aires wine bar inspired TOMS
“And it was actually after about being down there for about three weeks when I met serendipitously a few women that were in a wine bar that were talking in English, which was nice, because most everyone was speaking Spanish, and I didn't understand most of what…”
Feb 11, 2019 neutral
Mycoskie admits early TOMS shoes were poor quality; charity drove sales
“Yeah, I mean, in the early days, I think that's the primary driver of why people bought Toms. The shoes were, frankly, not that good a quality. They didn't last as long as we had hoped they would. I mean, you know, they were different, they were stylish, et ce…”
Feb 11, 2019
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Feb 11, 2019
Pitch property owners an established business, never just an 'idea'
“The thing you don't ever want to do, especially when you're 22 years old, and you're trying to talk to, like, 50 and sixty-year-old people who own apartment complexes, you don't want to use the word idea. Because if it's just an idea, then it's like, you're no…”
Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019 neutral
Sunset Boulevard billboard prices are driven by studio ego, not CPMs
“Because there's no way that could make sense. On a, you know, cost per thousand or an advertising metric. I mean, there's just not enough people that drive on sunset is what I was thinking. And so the reason that I basically came up with in my mind was it had …”
Jan 1, 2024
Jan 1, 2024