Cotopaxi: Davis Smith

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Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

By his mid-30's, Davis Smith had co-founded two businesses. The first ended well, but the second was such a disappointment that he wondered if he should even bother trying again. But he did. In 2014, he launched Cotopaxi, an outdoor gear company with two fluffy llamas as mascots and an expressed mission to do good in the world. The brand is now making tens of millions of dollars a year, and Davis hopes that the current pandemic will not slow its ambitions to grow and to give back generously. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:50.0	We chose a llama in our logo, kind of our mascot, and we bought two llamas on Craigslist.
0:59.0	And we started to take, sorry, you bought two llamas?
1:02.0	Like, yes.
1:03.0	You're in Salt Lake City.
1:04.0	You just go on Craigslist and get a llama.
1:07.0	Believe it or not, I bet pretty much anywhere in the country you could find some llamas on Craigslist.
1:11.0	Oh my god.
1:12.0	Really, I'm going to go on Craigslist while we're talking here in the San Francisco Bay area where I am.
1:17.0	Let me just see. There you go. You can buy a llama on Craigslist.
1:21.0	750 bucks.
1:22.0	Right.
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