Patagonia

"Just Jeepin'" (macintux) 05/11/2019 at 11:06 • Filed to: None

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I only heard parts of the interview that just aired locally , dates back a couple of years , but I recommend catching it if you haven’t already . Interview with the founder of Patagonia, sounded like a fascinating guy, definitely a different type of company.

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This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Just Jeepin' 05/11/2019 at 11:45

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DipodomysDeserti > Just Jeepin' 05/11/2019 at 12:32

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Doug Tompkins, the founder of North Face, was also a much different type of CEO . He bought up a bunch of land in Patagonia in order to preserve it. His widow recently handed it back over to the Chilean people and it’s been made into a series of national parks.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-latin-america-39292600

Just Jeepin' > DipodomysDeserti 05/11/2019 at 12:35

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Very cool. Hard to conceive of being wealthy enough to buy enough land to create a single national park, much less multiple.

DipodomysDeserti > Just Jeepin' 05/11/2019 at 12:42

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He was from Ohio, too. Founded North Face as a mail order company with $5k, and ended up becoming a billionaire. Ended up dying in a kayaking accident in Chile a few years ago. Not a bad way to go for an outdoorsman.

MrDakka > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: 05/11/2019 at 14:25

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We gotta have nice things to look at while we drive