Cotopaxi

“I think I did a good job taking a business from zero to around a hundred and fifty million in revenue, and there's probably better leaders that can take it To the next level.”

“We ended up with a handful of investors that invested, like I mentioned, Kirsten Green from Foreigner Ventures and a handful of other amazing people that stepped up and some of my friends from business school, like the Warby Parker founders the founders of Har…”

“We had 30,000 social media posts in that first 24 hours of our launch.”

“We've made, we sold five million backpacks made of remnant leftover repurposed material from other outdoor brands. It's the leftover scraps.”

“We donate we donate one percent of all of our revenues. Which to be clear, a lot of times is many years that was actually more than we made. We maybe weren't even making money, but we're still giving money away.”

“I suspect I'll probably go back to Cotopaxi and not as a CEO. I think I've given that role up and I'm okay with that now. I maybe play an executive chairman kind of role where I can still be very involved in our mission and our purpose and the culture.”

“We had a chief impact officer before we had a chief marketing officer. We didn't have a marketer.”

“And the return rate was like zero, like whatever they got, no matter how funky it was, they were, they loved it.”