We chatted with Davis Smith, Founder & CEO of Cotopaxi (a B-Corp). about being motivated by the urgency to do good, not getting discouraged and making a major impact.
00:40 Welcome
01:08 Introducing Davis
02:05 Cotopaxi
02;28 Growing up in Ecuador
03:12 Building a brand that would inspire adventure
03:30 Lamas
04:01 Spirit Animal
04:12 B-Corp
06:52 Giving Back
08:24 Business Benefits
09:04 Retaining talent
09:55 Making mistakes
12:54 Courage and leaps of faith
13:19 Importance of community
14:40 The most generous State
15:45 Talking about others instead of yourself
16:44 Refugees
21:26 Remnant material masks
22:00 #ONEUTAH
22:31 Questival Quarantine
23:43 Do good challenge
24:11 Edgar
28:52 Three annual salaries in a few days
29:18 Outdoors indoors
30:12 Making an Impact
31:20: $10 to see somewhere new
32:12 Not getting discouraged
33:22 Looking for the beautiful things in life
35:02 18 Years
35:46 urgency as a motivator
36:50 Healthcare, Education, Livelihood Training
38:20 Calm, Cool, Collected
39:09 Fear focused C.E.O
39:22 Un-focused C.E.O
39:42 Strategy focused C.E.O
41:37 Doing good is good for business
42:54 What are people buying?
45:11 Traffic on the trails
46:05 Back to our roots
46:36 Uplifting message
47:31 Motivated by others
51:20 Do good and good will find you
52:05 Alexa Flashbriefing
52:38 Helping others
54:22 The desire to create