Ep.514: North Face Climber and Alpine Start Coffee Founder - Matt Segal
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Growing up, Matt was an unlikely candidate to become a professional climber. Mostly because the southern beaches of Florida were his home. However, early on he showed promising climbing ability and began competing all over the country and world.
After moving out to Colorado he began doing things very few climbers were doing, garnering the attention of The North Face. He signed with them and did climbs and expeditions all over the world. Noticing the lack of quality coffee on the market for backcountry sports, Matt’s mind began working.
When back home in Colorado he would experiment with instant coffee combinations until he was satisfied. After talking his sister and some friends into going in with him, they started Alpine Start, the premier instant coffee for backpackers, climbers, and anyone in the adventure sports world.
Today we’re talking to Matt about his story and how he balancing life on the rock and life in the business world.
IG: @mattsegal
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| 0:00.0 | it's definitely a juggle and it's, I don't know, I think it's more fulfilling because it's |
| 0:04.2 | kind of cool to like go on a climbing trip and then come home and like be working on cool |
| 0:07.9 | projects with Alpine Star. Oh, it's not sending 513, but like, you know, launching a new product, |
| 0:12.8 | getting your hands dirty, like trying to create a new product is a, it's its own fulfilling thing. |
| 0:22.0 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:30.5 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, |
| 0:37.0 | we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that next adventure. |
| 0:42.5 | The Adventure Sports podcast is brought to you by Camp Crate, |
| 0:46.0 | the leaders in fully planned self-guided backpacking adventures, |
| 0:50.2 | as well as backpacking gear rental. |
| 0:52.4 | You can check them out at campcrate.net. |
| 1:06.2 | I learned a very interesting fact over the weekend, |
| 1:10.1 | and it is, it's going to sound crazy. |
| 1:12.1 | It's going to sound backwards, but we have 10 times as many trees on Earth as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. |
| 1:22.9 | That's about, you know, a lot of scientists agree there's around 300 billion stars in the Milky Way. |
| 1:30.2 | And some estimates have come out saying that there's around three trillion trees on Earth, |
| 1:36.7 | which is mind-blowing, which is, you know, there are obviously estimates. |
| 1:40.0 | But of course, but even if they were really, really wrong, the fact is, even estimated, it's 10 times as many trees on Earth. |
| 1:48.7 | So just the fact that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way, that blows my mind itself. |
| 1:54.9 | And if you don't believe me, just look it up. |
| 1:56.5 | You know, maybe it's proven wrong later, but I thought it was really awesome. |
| 2:00.1 | That's so cool to me, |
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