Peter Metcalf
12 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 28, 2024 by Peter Metcalf · across every show →
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Oct 28, 2024
Removing the Option to Retreat Unlocks 100% Focus on Forward Progress
“As a climber, when you're doing big new routes, what you're constantly thinking about with part of your brain is analyzing, how am I going to get down? Do I have the gear to get down? How long will it take? So you're using a certain amount of your energy to ma…”
Oct 28, 2024 neutral
Metcalf Owned 10% of Black Diamond Ahead of Its 2010 Sale
“I was a 10, 11% owner of the company, and I wanted this business to go on beyond me, and I felt it was a need for me to make a decision to change the ownership structure while I still had a number of years left in me to actually run it and not wait until I'm e…”
Oct 28, 2024
How Black Diamond Unified the US Climbing Industry to Secure Insurance
“Brought together the small climbing industry of America, our competitors in the United States, and our largest retailer, REI at the time, held a series of meetings, found insurance experts, and realized that if we as an industry got together and decided that l…”
Oct 28, 2024
High-Stakes Survival Requires Brutal Honesty About Fear and Weakness
“It also showed me the importance, all of us, of being brutally honest with one another. Because in a situation like this, we were out now almost 14 days. It was 13 and a half days. It was six days worth of rations. Just enough gear to keep us alive. And there …”
Oct 28, 2024
Black Diamond's Founders Refused Any Investors Demanding 51% Control
“For the effort that we're going to put into this, I did not want myself and the employee group to lose control of this business. It wasn't worth doing. If that was going to be it was like, let's walk away from it. It would be a brilliant failure. We're only go…”
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024 negative
Chouinard Equipment's Liability Insurance Surged From $10,000 to $350,000
“When I arrived at Shenard Equipment in 1982, we had five million dollars worth of insurance. It cost, I think, 10,000 dollars a year, and had a 5000 dollar deductible. By the time that all these suits hit, and what we were facing, the cost of an insurance poli…”
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Oct 28, 2024 negative
Yvon Chouinard Was 'Ashamed' of His 1987 Chouinard Equipment Catalog
“And we gave him a copy, and he called myself and my marketing director, who really was my partner in the business. And we said, as he looked at the catalog, that he was really ashamed of it, that it represented everything that he stood against in what was goin…”
Oct 28, 2024 positive