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Life is Good faced decimation when COVID wiped out wholesale orders

“Our business is structured in a way where half of our business was wholesale, and that means the high majority of those retailers closed their doors, canceled their orders, and our business was pretty close to being decimated, so we were having discussions can…”

Bert Jacobs Sep 17, 2020 ▶ 3:07 How I Built Resilience: Bert and John Jacobs of Life is Good

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Founders Bert and John Jacobs retain 100% ownership of Life is Good

“We own a hundred percent of the business, and, you know, we have no intention of going public or selling the business.”

Bert Jacobs Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 49:26 The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs

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Jacobs: Life is Good spent millions on direct-to-garment tech pre-COVID

“We've been researching for the better part of five years, and we just, before COVID hit, spent several million dollars on technology”

Bert Jacobs Sep 17, 2020 ▶ 7:24 How I Built Resilience: Bert and John Jacobs of Life is Good

Disclosure

Life is Good's first employee Kerry Sherman still owns 5% of company

“Until Carrie, who still works with us to this day, by the way, she actually owns five percent of the business.”

Bert Jacobs Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 43:18 The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs

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