Charles Kahn
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743 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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So, you know, we have to worry, just like every other business, about what's our gross margin.
We have to worry about SGNA.
We have to worry about the pace of innovation.
Um, we're not, you know, purpose means.
Um, we we have alignment about what we're trying to do.
Purpose means our customers trust that we're doing the right thing.
Purpose means our customers are actually willing to give us the benefit of the doubt as we work stuff out.
But that's about it.
Like all the rest of it we have to face, like everybody else.
I you know, I think we come back to where we started though, which is the best way for that to be true is to be guided by a very clear goal of what you're trying to do in the world.
And then to have relatively straightforward principles about how we do what we do.
Right.
And here, you know, in Patagonia, we're driven by experimentalist innovation.
Right.
We're not driven by fashion.
For example, um, we love incredible new technologies and fabrics that, you know, help us do human-powered outdoor pursuits better, but we don't do ones that have forever chemistries or that damage watersheds.
We don't use dyes where those would hurt uh fish, for example.
And so there's a very clear lines uh uh that that are drawn.
And we have a very deep-seated principle against bureaucratic decision making.
And that's hard, right?
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