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Therabody: Jason Wersland
HIBT Lab! Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 0:19 Guy Raz Now, at the time, Davis' company, the outdoor gear and clothing brand Cotopaxi, had been around for about six years, and it was just on the edge of turning a profit for the first time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48 Guy Raz Your business was just teetering on, like, the edge of profitability after, like, six years of kind of grinding, um, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:39 Guy Raz We're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, Davis shares an update on a story from our first interview about the nine-year-old boy he met on the streets of Cusco in Peru in 2001, who was part of the inspiration for Cotopaxi… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:34 Guy Raz Um, but 2001, you're in Peru, and you meet this boy, Edgar, and he was the person who was in your mind when you thought of Cotopaxi, like, you know, 1514 years later. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 Guy Raz so, so Cotopaxi, I want to ask you about, is a, is a B Corp, and we've had several, uh, B Corps on How I Built This in the past. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:29 Guy Raz Coming up in just a moment, more from Davis Smith about the future of Cotopaxi and why he's decided to step down from his role as CEO later this year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:54 Guy Raz In January of this year, of twenty-twenty-three, um, you made kind of a bombshell announcement, which is you announced you were stepping down from your role, uh, as CEO of Cotopaxi. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:34 Guy Raz You're still a young man, and Cotopax, you're still a young company, but you know, it's, you've taken it from nothing, zero to now, hundred and sixty million in revenue as you prepare to leave. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:44 Guy Raz That's Davis Smith, founder and CEO of Cotopaxi.
Calendly: Tope Awotona
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 1:20 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Davis Smith launched the brand Cotopaxi with two llamas and two main goals, to make money and to make the world a better place. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:47 Davis Smith I had to have some success along the way, but it was through those experiences that allowed me to go build what I'm building now with Cotopaxi.
- ▶ 46:03 Guy Raz And by the way, how did you come up with the name Cotopaxi? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:08 Davis Smith Before we launched, we started coming up with this idea of creating an experience, an event that allowed people to go live the Cotopaxi values. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:07 Davis Smith And that's what we do through our, through the Cotopaxi Foundation.
- ▶ 1:04:19 Guy Raz That's Davis Smith, founder and CEO of Coto Paxi.