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🗓️ 20 February 2025
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Cotopaxi founder Davis Smith believes business can be a force for change. He built a world-class outdoor brand around a simple but powerful motto: Do Good. In this conversation with host Jeff Berman, Smith shares the spark of inspiration that set Cotopaxi in motion, the hard-won lessons that shaped his approach to building teams, and why he chose to step away from the CEO role amid the company’s impressive growth.
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1:26.5 | When we launched the business and we had this 24-hour adventure race, we actually needed to make backpacks for everyone doing the race, and we needed to make it as quickly as possible. |
1:37.8 | The only way for us to do it was actually to use remnants, leftovers. |
1:47.5 | The clock was ticking for Davis Smith and a small team at Cotapaxi, so the new outdoor gear company got to work sewing bags out of salvaged fabric. |
1:54.9 | They mixed bold colors, the wackier, the combinations the better, and in that moment, |
1:59.9 | the signature look for the Cotapaxi brand was born. |
2:04.1 | And then we really doubled down on it. |
2:05.9 | And it was like, hey, what if we started making one-of-a-kind bags? |
2:08.8 | And so a huge amount of our product that we sell is one-of-a-kind product. |
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