Cobblers Conundrum
Cobblers Conundrum
Cobblers Conundrum
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, Blake Mycoskie
i set out to save
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way half his goods.
His critics say that
Jiving alone doesn't
solve a thing.
ByJeffChu
Photographs
by Mike Piscitelli
again, in a painting on the wall of his the feet of many poor children, made its owner
a very rich man, and pioneered a much-admired
office/man oave.Andyouli find hlrti business model. "I had no idea it would ever get
this big," says Mycoskie, a 36-year-old Texan
whose laid-back, surfer-dude vibe masks the
repeating it severai times In his book, ambition of an entrepreneur who prefers to talk
less about the company he has built than of the
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Warby Parker
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Dog for Dog • For every pair of glasses
• For every dog treat sold, sold, gives a pair (or funding)
donates a Dogsbar to a to not-for-profit Vision Spring,
shelter in the country of sale. which sells them at subsidized
» 54,000 dogs gratified. prices and trains low-income
entrepreneurs to provide
vision care.
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One World Fútbol
• For every soccer ball sold, • 250,000 pairs given.
donates one to organizations
working with disadvantaged
communities.
• 325,000 soccer balls
distributed in 160 countries;
pledge from sponsor Chev-