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Holy Sh*t Comfort and Big Ball Girth: Rick Blackshaw’s Very Serious Shoe Brand
🎧 From Chuck Taylor to Hey Dude to Stoke: Rick Blackshaw’s Career in Footwear and the Brand He Built for the Guy Nobody Was Serving
Rick Blackshaw, founder and Chief Stoke Officer of Stoke Shoes, spent four decades building some of the most recognized footwear brands in the world — growing Chuck Taylor’s global revenue from $400M to $1.8B, doubling Hey Dude to over $1 billion, and turning around Keds with Taylor Swift. Then he had a conversation with his deathbed self and decided he couldn’t leave the one idea he’d been carrying for seven years unbuilt. Stoke is a sport casual brand built…
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