Blake Mycoskie
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977 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Blake Mycoskie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I had a little bit of success with this online driver's ed company and
I just bounced around between kind of successes and failures as an entrepreneur for about a decade.
And I wouldn't say I was burnt out, but I was, man, like, how am I going to have some stability?
If I want to get like married someday and have kids.
One year I had a million dollars in my bank account.
Now I have zero.
I really, really, that was the swing that was happening in my mid twenties.
And I took some time off and I went to Argentina and that's where I had the idea for TOMS.
And I came back and I remember calling my dad and saying, you know what?
I had this idea where these really cool shoes I found and I saw all these kids in the streets that didn't have shoes.
And so I'm going to sell these like really cool Argentine shoes.
And every time I sell a pair, I'm going to give a pair back to these children that need shoes.
And I'm going to do it for the next six months or so and then go back around Christmas time and give away whatever shoes we sell.
And I said, I don't know if this is like a business or if this is just a project, but I really think I should do it.
And in order to do it, I was having to turn down a pretty lucrative opportunity that someone had brought to me to run kind of the sales division of a new startup that was really progressing.
And my dad knew I was trying to decide if I should do that or not.
And he said to me, he said, you know what?
I think this is the best idea you've ever had.
I would put everything into it.
And I did.
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