Steve Madden: Steve Madden

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Steve Madden fell in love with the shoe business in the 1970's, when he sold platform shoes at a neighborhood store in Long Island, New York. That was in high school. About 15 years later, he struck out on his own, designing and selling shoes with a high-end look at affordable prices. As his business – and his ambitions — began to grow, he got involved in a securities fraud scheme and wound up serving two and-a-half years in prison. In 2005, he returned to Steve Madden, where he helped the company grow into a business valued at $3 billion. PLUS, for our postscript "How You Built That," how Chris Dimino turned a school design project into the Keyboard Waffle Iron, which makes waffles in the shape of a computer keyboard. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:03.0	But there aren't many tickets left, so please do hurry, go to npr.org slash summit to get your tickets and hope to see you in San Francisco.
1:13.0	I'm not one of those entrepreneurs that thought he was going to be super successful.
1:22.0	You know, I was just trying to survive and I'm very negative and very pessimistic.
1:27.0	Unlike maybe some of the guys that you've done, you know, the shows here.
1:31.0	Yeah, total.
1:32.0	I'm sure they think that, you know, they're going to be...
1:34.0	Nothing can get me down, that's right.
1:36.0	Nothing can get me down.
1:37.0	I think I'm going out of business every other day.
1:46.0	From NPR, it's how I built this.
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