Making mistakes and learning from others with Davis Smith, Founder & CEO of Cotopaxi

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