Vans, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Lyndon Cormack 5Guy Raz 3Blake Mycoskie 2Tom Rinks 1Tom Campion 1Marc Ecko 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Vans comes up
ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- ▶ 9:09 Guy Raz Um, Lyndon, you, when you left Australia, I guess you, you, uh, came back to Canada, and then you ended up working as, like, a sales rep, I guess, for Vans, for the, for the shoe company, uh, and, and Jamie, you, you moved on, you started…
- ▶ 14:57 Lyndon Cormack I mean, conveniently enough, uh, especially with how a brand like Vans bridged itself from action sports to fashion, we were already going to places and selling to stores that would, would ultimately end up being some of our first accounts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:53 Lyndon Cormack What a line plan would look like, and again, it seems like, for us, that was very natural, because that's what we did for a living, whether we were working amongst designers at Vans and giving our feedback, or Jamie at K-II giving feedback…
- ▶ 28:34 Lyndon Cormack So, uh, I had reached out to some of our connections, uh, you know, with, with Vans, and I, I certainly said to some of our product managers, hey, I'm not looking for you to get in trouble, but is there any manufacturers you know of that…
- ▶ 46:46 Lyndon Cormack So we, we hired some people who had previously worked with us, uh, myself with Vans, as well as we, we hired, uh,
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
Zumiez: Tom Campion
- ▶ 36:10 Tom Campion It was, it wasn't until the late eighties, early nineties, we got into shoes, and the first one was air walks, but then etnies, which is still around us, and vans, and vans is a huge part of our business.
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
- ▶ 27:23 Blake Mycoskie And so they thought some of our changes was going to make the shoe way too expensive, but they didn't really understand that we had a market that would pay because people were paying 40 bucks for a pair of vans.
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
- ▶ 26:52 Blake Mycoskie And so they thought some of our changes was going to make the shoe way too expensive, but they didn't really understand that we had a market that would pay because people were paying 40 bucks for a pair of vans.