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Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
- ▶ 0:12 Guy Raz Maxine Clark, the lady who ran Payless, like, is starting a stuffed animal thing.
- ▶ 1:19 Guy Raz Because that year, 1992, she became the president of Payless Shoes, which at the time was a fast-growing subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company, the May Department Stores Company.
- ▶ 14:08 Maxine Clark At this point, it, I'm pretty high up in the, in the chain of a division, and probably on a track to go run a big division, uh, someday, and that division became Payless Shoes eventually, when, about 10 years later, and I got passed over a… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:21 Maxine Clark It was getting out ahead of where May Company was, and I did know that they wanted to take Payless public, and I did not want to be the CEO of Payless in Topeka, Kansas for the rest of my life. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:24 Guy Raz I have to imagine there were some people, maybe they didn't say it to you directly, who thought this was so weird, like, wait, Maxine Clark, the lady who ran Payless, like, the boss of the, that is starting a stuffed animal thing, like,…
- ▶ 26:23 Maxine Clark And I had a lot of friends in the shopping center business because Payless had stores and shopping centers.
- ▶ 28:53 Maxine Clark The name came from our advertising agency in Topeka for Payless.
- ▶ 1:00:40 Guy Raz Louis, and that becomes your home, and then you are at Payless, and then you decide to start this, you have this very unusual idea to start a stuffed