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