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Brian Smith

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1081 total appearances

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How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

What do you mean be in the audience?

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

Well, he wanted to go to New York and be in a taping of one of the Rush Limbaugh shows.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

Ridiculously big, yeah.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

And what happened was that

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

Because the board voted for it, I didn't want to fight them.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

I said, okay, I'm on the team, right?

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

So I'm going to go there.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

I'm going to introduce the Ugg boots to Rush Limbaugh.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

And I said, here, try this on.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

No, I don't need to try it on.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

And I had a bit of a fight with him.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

I said, well, look, if you don't try them on, we're just not going to do the advertising.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

And I was bullshitting because I had to make this deal.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

And eventually he tried them on and he goes, oh, my God, these are so comfortable.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

I could sell these.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

Fast forward, it's now November, I think, came on the show.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

Hey, folks, I got some good news to tell you.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

Today we have a new sponsor and it's Ugg Boots from California.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

And that second, our switchboard shut down because every broker in the country, every stockbroker was calling us saying, are you guys public?

How I Built This with Guy Raz
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.

Can we buy stock?