Charles Kahn
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743 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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And I think
We are going to have to rethink.
Uh, and we you know, we mentioned this a second ago, are we may still have organization structures, but much more interesting will be how we solve uh business problems together in fluid teams that take advantage of new technologies and are not afraid.
to disrupt our own business rather than be disrupted by outs by outsiders.
And that goes against everything about the best companies that we thought of in the seventies in the sixties, seventies, eighties, and even nineties.
It's something we struggle and we we we we fight every day.
And I don't mean to suggest that it's easy in Patagonia either.
That would be um that would be incorrect.
Um, we have the great benefit of still having this inspirational founder, you know, as uh and and very present in the company.
um which is which gives a great centering force to the company.
Um we have the great benefit of the fact that all of the profitability of Patagonia goes to purpose, you know, and and the the the purpose that um the Patagonia founders when they gave away their shares was to fight the environmental crisis.
So we're aligned in that way.
But I I don't think we're immune from the challenge of, you know, we we have we're we're in a large number of businesses.
We compete against other very difficult competitors in those businesses.
We're not a technology-centered business.
We're a value-centered business, but we will need to adopt some of these new technologies.
So all of this is real for Patagonia today.
We have a terrific leader of the company, uh, CEO of the company.
He has a terrific team that he works with day to day.
And every single day we wake up and deal with the same questions that everyone else does.
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