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Q Do you think, this is a really weird question, but I'm curious to hear your, your take on it. Um, if you could trade the time you were in prison for, you know, just continuing on and not, not, not having that experience, would you, would you do it? Or do you think that, strangely enough, that, that time being incarcerated was important for your development as a person?
A Um, yeah, uh, that's exactly right. I, I, I'm a very big believer in, you know, destiny and your path and all that corny stuff. I just believe it viscerally. So, I'm so grateful for my life, uh, after prison. I married a great girl. I had great kids. I don't know that I would have had children had I not gone to prison. So, I regret some of my choices, uh, you know, shortcuts that I took, or, you know, thinking that money was the most important thing. I regret decisions like that. But I don't regret a day in prison. It was an amazing experience. It was very painful. I mean, the only thing I can, I've tried to describe it to people, Your heart gets broke every day.
AI assessment note: “I don't regret a day in prison. It was an amazing experience.”
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Q But when you came back to the company in 2005, I think within four years, uh, Steve Madden hit revenue of, of over half a billion dollars. So, so what happened in that time? Like, how did the company grow? What, what was the strategy that allowed you to grow so much?
A So our goal was to, you know, make great shoes and You know, I think that that kind of, like, won out at the end of the day. The marketing wasn't super fantastic. It was just great shoes, great prices, great value, and, uh, you know, I think that we just wore everybody out with that. You know, more people were giving us their open to buy, and we opened more stores, you know, and our internet business exploded. But the big thing about Steve Madden, I have to say, and I've said this many times, Was the people at Steve Madden, is that I've hired so many great people. It starts with recognizing my own limitations. I'm weak at that. So let me get somebody that can do that for me. And, uh, you know, that's really the story. It's people.
AI assessment note: “great shoes, great prices, great value... opened more stores... internet business exploded”
