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Q Yeah, I mean, you must have been a super talented soccer player, because you got a scholarship to, to come to the US to go ah,, I guess to the,, to the University of Cincinnati to play soccer. How did you end up there?
A I, I ended up, um, getting about six scholarship offers, and then I found in Cincinnati a design school Which was the subject that it was starting to really connect with me, and so Cincinnati was where I, was where I headed, and I hadn't visited, and it was, it was probably, I feel like, the first adult decision, big decision I'd made, when my, when mum and dad were like, we'll make it, we'll make it work, and I remember, as part of the application, they'd put their mortgage, you know, they'd put their house, as part of the, the credit that sort of said, you know, he's good for this, you want to do it, Go. We'll back you a hundred percent. And, uh, so off I was on a plane to Cincinnati as an eighteen-year-old.
AI assessment note: “I found in Cincinnati a design school Which was the subject that it was starting”
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Q Ok, so you end up in Cincinnati on the soccer team, and what, what was, what was school like? Was it intense? Was it, you know, because you're doing soccer for 40 hours a week and school.
A Yeah, the, the design program was difficult. I, uh, it was a five-year program. Um, they wanted to break you down and build you up over Five years, literally, in the first foundation year, cutting paper and not using a computer, and literally going through a very, very traditional sort of design education, um, and it was difficult because the whole athletic department kind of had their trainings in the afternoon, and I had a studio every, just about every day from nine to 12, and then from two to five, and I can still remember, um, Sprinting across campus, changing, and I'd, I'd structured some agreement with a coach that I could kind of be a little bit, you know, I could miss the warm-up or something, and then I could do the studio, and I somehow made it work, but it was, it was intense from the beginning. When I look back on it, I, there was, I was, there was, it was a fair amount of pressure, but I, I'd found something that I, I was in love with.
AI assessment note: “the design program was difficult... but it was, it was intense from the beginning”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So you decide to do a degree at the London School of Economics with this idea for a shoe in your mind?
A Yeah, and I had a little bit of shoemaking knowledge, so, you know, I made a couple of shoes, literally a couple of shoes, and I showed up and did the first couple of semesters at LSE, and then went off to Kellogg at Northwestern, um, and you were able to take the pick of classes that, you know, that you wanted through the quarter that you were there, the period that you were there. So I show up at Evanston, and I walk into an entrepreneurship class, um, With a professor called Carter Cast, who is a former CEO of Walmart.com, and this, you know, pretty special professor there, and, um, he'd sent an email out, and he said, everyone has to come in, and that you've got three minutes to pitch an idea to the class, and we will form teams around the best 10 ideas, and for the whole, you know, quarter, you will, you will go after this business idea, and I came in, and I pitched the idea of wool shoes, and I think people thought it was a little bit of a joke, But for whatever reason, it got selected, and I found myself immersed for three months, ah, in.
AI assessment note: “Yeah, and I had a little bit of shoemaking knowledge”
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Q Okay. When you finished fulfilling those orders, were you like, okay, now I've got to create a business or were you like, well, I, I mean, I was, Or were you like, I'm done with this?
A I just kind of, somewhere in between, and I, that, that year had, was, was awful, and it was, I would find myself at dinners with, with Linz and her friends who are kind of early thirties now, at the stage of their career where things are starting to, to take off, and, uh, and, uh, we'd go out for dinner, and we'd go around the table, and I would, I just, I would dread when it would come to me, and people would ask what I was doing, and I would, Linz would make fun, because I, my body would Curl up into a little ball, and I would sort of say wool shoes, and when we'd leave the dinner, people would pat me on the head and say, that's, it's lovely that you're pursuing this little thing, and good luck with that little fella, and I was just, it was, it was awful, and it became clear too that doing this by yourself was really hard, and that I was good at some aspects of it, and there was a bunch of things that I was not good at.
AI assessment note: “I just kind of, somewhere in between, and I, that, that year had, was, was awful”
