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 the rest is kind of history.
But it was really cool because it was like it was another point where my dad, who had more of a conservative career path, became an orthopedic surgeon, went to school, did the thing, had a lot of stability in his life.
So he encouraged me to do something that was sounded to most people completely radical in terms of giving away a pair of shoes every time I sell a pair.
in face of taking opportunity that would have been probably me making a couple hundred thousand dollars a year.
It was like a really great, very lucrative opportunity with this startup.
And so that was really cool.
That's a good question.
I think that as I went into my entrepreneurial career and even today, like I'm involved in three startups right now.
I don't think it necessarily is about drive as much as it is curiosity.
For me, like I love to help solve problems or I love to help people with something that maybe I struggled with.
And because I struggled for almost seven years with my mental health, which I know we'll get into.
I'm much more inclined to be investing in and mentoring entrepreneurs that are working in the mental health space.
And some of those are for-profit, some of those are nonprofit.
But my drive to be entrepreneurial, I think it's always come from seeing a need and then wanting to fulfill it.
And it's not ever really been financially motivated, even though I've made a lot of money.
It's always been like, how cool would it be to help people with this?
Or I struggle with that.
Perfect example right now is,
I'm mentoring these guys who've started a AI therapy app.
And it's called Sonia.
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