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TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)

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Okay, so At some point in the past decade, you or d someone you know probably owned a simple pair of cloth shoes, and there's a good chance those shoes may have been Tom's, because in the past decade, Blake Mykowski built a multi million dollar shoe empire. Inspired by a simple cloth shoe he once saw

in Argentina. Blake's journey to shoes took a lot of detours. This story first ran in 2017. Enjoy. Well, I kinda freaked out. and I got this like small army of interns to help

basically be customer service to email and call all these people and let'em know that There was no chance that they were gonna get their shoes in the four days or five days of the website. Promised it was gonna be more like couple months. And I literally, uh Food of Buenos Aires took a taxi to this guy's house, Juan Torres, who was making the shoes in his garage for us at the time. And I walked in and with the little Spanish eye knew I said something like

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