Hey, this is Barbara Corker and you are now tuned in to business unusual and everything

you ever learned about business throughout the window, I'm going to tell you the real

deal, isn't it?

Today, I'm going to answer all your burning questions about work, life, starting a company,

getting on track and much, much more.

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Do you ever dream of starting your own business, do you ever wonder if your future partner

might be sitting across the hole on the other cubicle and does work really have to feel like

work?

Well, today I'm talking with Dave Heath and Randy Goldberg of Bombas, who did exactly that

and built an empire, one sock at a time, listen in, so how did you guys meet?

I'm sure you've been asked a million times but everybody wants to know and I haven't

really read that.

Dave and I, we met working at a previous job, we were working at a media startup, we were

both early employees, I was the sixth employee, he was the seventh employee, it was a great

place to work, we were covering food and nightlife and interesting things going on in

New York, so we had like a newsletter that we wrote and we were in different departments

but we became fast friends and I think we bonded over an interest in businesses and entrepreneurship

and we just kind of became lunch buddies and then just good friends and we met working

together at another job and then one day we were having lunch and Dave had seen a quote

on Facebook that said, socks are the most requested clothing item in homeless shelters,

it was a salvation army campaign, they were doing and he shared it with me, he said, do

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