Cotopaxi

“We had 30,000 social media posts the day of our launch, of people using our bags, outliving our brand values, and it was a really special way for us to go build the brand.”

“You know, we've worked together for six and a half years now, and we've never had an argument.”

“I believe we can go build a billion dollar business.”

“We had over a 100,000 people participate in one of our Questable events.”

“Over the last two years, our focus has really been on becoming sustainable and profitable, and we've made some amazing progress, and we're finally to the point where we don't have to raise more venture capital moving forward.”

“We went to them and said, hey, all this remnant material that we see, all this leftover, we want to use it, and we want you guys to design the bags. The only rule is to make no bag alike, and so that's been really fun.”

“We hired a, someone to head up our impact work In the first year of our business, before we even hired someone in marketing, we hired someone in impact.”

“We had Kirsten Green led our first round. This is an investor that she's backed Warby Parker and Away and Birchbox and Dollar Shave Club, and she believed in us, and she believed in our mission, and so she wrote the first check, and that was the beginning of t…”

“We just hired the CEO of Eddie Bauer, joined our team last year as the president, Damien Wong.”

“Instead of doing layoffs, we decided to cut our executive salaries in a pretty significant way, and we cut everyone's pay by 10% for three months, and then we cut it down to five percent for the rest of the year, and then by the end of the year, we ended up gi…”

“We ended up having our first profitable year in 2020, and it was significantly profitable. And it allowed us to pay those bonuses to our team. And then in 20, 21, we grew a little over 60%. And then in 20, 22, we grew over 90, about 90%.”

“I'm going to be joining the board meetings. I'm going to be moving into a chairman role. Every quarter I'm going to do a meeting with all new employees, which I love doing this currently. I do it actually currently I do it every month, but all new employees I …”

“The first thing that they did was they tied our bonuses, our compensation as leaders in the company to our impact work.”

“Last year, 97% of all of our products that we sold were made of the three, one of the three R's.”

“And all of a sudden, you know, in August of twenty-twenty, we made the decision, we're remote first forever.”

“Over the history of our business, the last almost nine years, we've helped and aided 3.8 million people living in poverty through our efforts.”