footwear manufacturing

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 10, 2019 by Tim Brown · across every show →

Everything said about footwear manufacturing, oldest first

Jun 10, 2019 neutral
Insight
Brown: Founders greatly underestimate the complexity of manufacturing shoes
“And I had greatly Underestimated, as I'm sure Joey would attest, how complicated it is, actually, to make a shoe.”
Tim Brown Jun 10, 2019 ▶ 18:08 Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger
Mar 13, 2023
Insight
Traditional multi-layer shoe manufacturing hides quality control defects with glue
“In a regular shoe there's a lot of layers, and they all get glued together. And it really doesn't matter how accurate you are with quality control and quality assurance. So you can hide a lot of mistakes with glue.”
Steven Sashen Mar 13, 2023 ▶ 48:40 Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix
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