Greg Selkoe on the Rise and Fall of Karmaloop

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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With the legacy of Karmaloop being a hot topic on social media in the past few weeks, we sit down with the company’s founder, Greg Selkoe. Selkoe tells never-before-heard stories about the company and also explains the highs and lows of running the streetwear juggernaut. Earlier in the episode co-hosts, Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne and Matt Welty talk about Nike seizing $5 million in sneaker inventory from a Los Angeles-based warehouse.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:02.8	Joel Upuma, you were listening.
0:03.9	You're watching the Complex Sneaker show.
0:05.5	As always, I'm joined by my two co-host.
0:07.4	First off, to my right, Mr. Matt Welty.
0:09.4	Nice little rainy Friday, but, you know? Did a double-headed this week to my left fresh off the jet
0:17.3	Mr Brendan Dunn short trip he's here I'm tired you got your pajama pants those
0:21.4	aren't pajama pants? Those are on pajama pants.
0:25.0	recipes of paw.
0:26.0	Sorry, that's a super insider thing, but a brand that I quite loved that just shuttered last week.
0:30.0	Oh, wow, sorry to hear that.
0:32.0	Yeah. What's going on? This is the second
0:34.5	episode that we shot this week. Right. You're hearing it, watching it on a
0:38.3	normal week. Absolutely. And I don't know if we want to get into it now. Some news
0:42.1	broke right after we filmed the episode
0:45.5	that was out last week.
0:46.5	Yeah, that's a funny thing that happens where you're sitting down recording
0:49.4	an episode and you get out of the recording
0:51.4	and you have five tweets for people being like, oh my did you see this did you see this what we're talking about here is the bust in LA the sneaker bust
0:58.9	LAPD says they seized five million dollars worth of sneakers from a couple warehouses there.
1:04.4	They arrested one Roy Lee Harvey Jr. for his alleged involvement in this and they didn't
1:09.4	mention in anywhere that Project Blitz was the place where they got the sneakers from,
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