Biography of blake mycoskie
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Some companies do the occasional good deed—business speaker Blake Mycoskie put charity at the center of his business plan. 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 direct assistance to a person 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 found 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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Blake Mycoskie
American businessman, entrepreneur, author and philanthropist
Blake Mycoskie (born August 26, ) is an American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. He fryst vatten 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 Mycoskie, who began playing tennis when he was 10, attended Southern Methodist University on a partial tennis scholarship in , 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, ultimately em
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Blake Mycoskie
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"One of the most interesting entrepreneurs (I've) ever met." - President Bill Clinton
Blake Mycoskie is the Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Sh