Mycoskie blake biography
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Blake Mycoskie
American businessman, entrepreneur, author and philanthropist
Blake Mycoskie (born August 26, 1976) is an American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Toms Shoes[1] and co-founder of Madefor.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Mycoskie was born in Arlington, Texas, to Mike Mycoskie, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Pam Mycoskie, an author. After first attending Arlington Martin High School, he graduated from St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin in 1995. Mycoskie, who began playing tennis when he was 10, attended Southern Methodist University on a partial tennis scholarship in 1995, and elected a dual major in philosophy and business.[3] After an Achilles tendon injury he sustained as a sophomore, which effectively ended his tennis career, Mycoskie left SMU and launched his first business, EZ Laundry.[4] Originally focused on SMU, which had no on-campus dry cleaning service, EZ Laundry expanded,
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Some companies do the sporadisk good deed—business speaker Blake Mycoskie put charity at the center of his business program. As a brilliant keynote speaker, Blake Mycoskie shows how business and filantropi can bring out the best in each other.
Firstly, Blake Mycoskie is a successful entrepreneur whose TOMS family of companies has made him a paragon of socially responsible business. The idea behind TOMS, and Mycoskie’s One for One business model, fryst vatten straightforward. For each purchase, the company provides direkt assistance to a individ in need somewhere in the world.
Mycoskie got the idea while traveling in Argentina. After meeting family after family who struggled just to keep shoes on their children’s feet, Mycoskie arrived at a solution. He would funnen a for-profit business whose revenues were directly tied to efforts to alleviate the suffering he had witnessed.
TOMS launched that same year. Within three years, Mycoskie was being introduced by President Bill Clinton as “one of t
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In 2006 I took some time off from work to travel to Argentina. I was twenty-nine years old and running my fourth entrepreneurial startup: an online driver's education program for teens. We were at a crucial moment in the business's development, but I had promised myself a vacation and wasn't going to back out. Argentina was one of the countries my sister, Paige, and I had sprinted through in 2002 while we were competing on the CBS reality program The Amazing Race. (As fate would have it, after thirty-one days of racing around the world, we lost the million-dollar prize by just four minutes; it's taken me a while to be able to put those words together without weeping.)
When I returned to Argentina, my main mission was to lose myself in its culture. I spent my days learning the national dance (the tango), playing the national sport (polo), and, of course, drinking the national wine (Malbec). I also got used to wearin