Maxine Clark
17 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 15, 2026 by Maxine Clark · across every show →
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Jun 15, 2026 neutral
Clark: Offered to Buy Basic Brown Bear Before Launching Build-A-Bear
“And honestly, I did go there as a customer, because it was an open tour that you could, you know, and I called them after the tour and said, I'd be open to talk to you about buying your business, and they wanted an unbelievable amount of money for their little…”
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Clark: Brand-building commitment is hard to teach founders straight out of college
“Commitment to the time it takes to build a brand and to build success is something that's hard to teach if that, if it's their first job out of college, you know, instead of having the experience that you can't really pass on to them.”
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Clark: Factory tours inspired the idea for interactive mall workshops
“I knew if people were going on tours of a factory that made stuffed animals, imagine if it was in their hometown, what they might do. Could we miniaturize it, make it feasible to be in a mall with the right some equipment, you know, like our stuffing machine, …”
Jun 15, 2026 negative
Clark: Bankers wrongly advised acquiring existing factories over starting Build-A-Bear
“A lot of the bankers were telling me that if I bought something, it would be easier than, you know, inventing it from scratch, that you could use it as collateral. That it would be maybe a better, a faster way to get where I wanted to go. They were wrong about…”
Jun 15, 2026 positive
Clark: Great merchants aggregate and sell existing products rather than invent them
“I didn't create any of this, I didn't invent any of these parts. The I just brought the parts together, which is what a great merchant does. Like Jeff Bezos didn't write the books. He just put the books together on a platform that you could, we all could buy a…”
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Clark: Mall landlords became Build-A-Bear's largest expansion investors
“The St. Louis Galleria didn't give us any tenant allowance, but every store after that gave us something to build our store. They wanted us to come, and they wanted to be the first one in their market, so in Chicago we had, the next two stores were in Chicago,…”