The Shoe Dogs
Some founders arrive with pitch decks and market analysis. Tammy and Ludo arrived with a camper van, a few decades in the footwear business, and the suspicion that the industry had drifted too far into disposable fashion.
Amy Cosper
Starr Hall never learned to sit still
Starr Hall has this formula and it repeats like clockwork: She builds things. She makes a shit ton of money. She exits. She gets bored. She moves on.
“I know after two years, I’m out,” she says. “I’ve done what I can do. I need something new.”
Living the Wahoo Way
Before Wahoo’s Fish Taco became a global brand, Wing Lam was handing out tacos to starving surfers in Costa Mesa parking lots.
Drink the fucking wine
Scott Halford on leadership, clarity, the human brain, and how great founders learn to slow down and question assumptions.
Lunch With David Granger
The machinery of media looks very different now. But, we both agree, editorial judgment still has a place. Maybe now more than ever.
The Ducati didn't make it
The city of Fort Collins mailed the ticket to my husband’s ex-wife, who does not live in Fort Collins, nor does she ride a Ducati. She was furious. To this day, none of us understands how that happened. But who cares? It was fantastic and she’s still pissed. I call that a win.
Barbara Brooks is not invisible
Up until that point, she hadn’t thought much about her age. It wasn’t part of how she moved through the world or how she understood her value. But as the rejections accumulated, it became clear that it was part of someone else’s calculation she could no longer control.