Billabong
Clothing retail companywww.billabong.com
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Nov 2, 2026
Randy OlsonGUEST
And what was...
Randy OlsonGUEST
I think it was Billabong Sportswear, to be specific.
Randy OlsonGUEST
Yes.
Randy OlsonGUEST
I don't know if I could
Park HowellHOST
say the name or not, but it was Billabong.
Park HowellHOST
Who cares? Big, cool company, right?
Randy OlsonGUEST
Yes, 15 years ago now, or 10 years ago.
Ben HodgsonHOST
I think...
Ben HodgsonHOST
One person said on a podcast that this could completely fizzle out and not amount to anything because they just might not be able to find enough evidence that the culture of change that does need to happen in surfing may not happen because the companies, you know, the big companies like Billabong and Rikku and all that, they've...
Ben HodgsonHOST
They've suppressed this sort of behavior and this sort of shit for forever.
Ben HodgsonHOST
I read somewhere or heard somewhere that, you know, the culture.
Jevon Le RouxGUEST
and then really getting good at it.
Jevon Le RouxGUEST
We were knocking on the door of Billabong and Quicksilver for the better part of two years, right? And then eventually we got cut through and eventually we got the meeting and then eventually we're like, hey, look at this.
Jevon Le RouxGUEST
And they're like, oh, this is going to be a game changer.
Jevon Le RouxGUEST
Puma, we were really fortunate to get a warm intro from another founder.
Jeremy IannuzzelliGUEST
We spoke about investing.
Jeremy IannuzzelliGUEST
My 13th birthday, I got Billabong shares.
Jeremy IannuzzelliGUEST
So other kids got Playstations and I was investing in the share market through my father.
Jeremy IannuzzelliGUEST
What school should have taught you came about from those lessons.
Stace GalbraithGUEST
There's a few good angles.
Stace GalbraithGUEST
Obviously, we're in the same building as Billabong, so it's like always that kind of, you know, there's plenty of shoot talk in the hallways and Volcom as well.
Stace GalbraithGUEST
And so, yeah, it's a good little zone in the cafe.
Stace GalbraithGUEST
Everyone's got a heap of screens at their desks, but there's also a few quality establishments nearby as well.
Kieran FlanaganHOST
He grew up in Australia.
Kieran FlanaganHOST
He grew up in a place called Billabong.
Kieran FlanaganHOST
Could you get a more Australian name than Billabong? That's a clothing brand.
Kieran FlanaganHOST
It's like the Aussie
Kipp BodnarHOST
surfing clothing brand.
Kipp BodnarHOST
That's a fun name.
Kipp BodnarHOST
I had a lot of
Kieran FlanaganHOST
Billabong when I lived in Sydney.
Scott BassHOST
to just bankroll surfing.
Scott BassHOST
And the ASP in the early 90s, of course, was like, well, we've got Quicksilver and Billabong and Instinct and Rip Curl and O'Neal.
Scott BassHOST
And there was just the burgeoning moment of the surf industry as we know it.
Scott BassHOST
And they're like, we don't need Murdoch.
Wing LamGUEST
His dad was Lance Collins, Wave Tools.
Wing LamGUEST
And he was the top surfer for Billabong, which was one of our friends.
Wing LamGUEST
So we said, if we can maybe do something with Richie, right, maybe we can do this.
Wing LamGUEST
And they said, well, how are you going to do this? We're going to take a picture, have Richie surfing on one picture, and the other one will be us, like the staff.
Dylan ConroyHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Wing LamGUEST
This is as close as I'm going to get.
Wing LamGUEST
And then I went to Billabong and goes, you know what? It'd be really cool if maybe we can use your logo in the ad.
Wing LamGUEST
And they said, well, how about we make you our official restaurant? So think about that for a second.
Richard GrellmanGUEST
Yeah, and you get a good wave occasionally and you surprise yourself.
Richard GrellmanGUEST
But what they were looking for was someone who surfed, someone who was not aligned to any of the big surf brands, Quicksilver, Billabong, et cetera, and someone who knew something about boardroom because their board meetings were a
Karl FaaseHOST
rabble.
Richard GrellmanGUEST
They would usually start on a Monday afternoon and finish on a Friday afternoon, four or five days.
FinleyHOST
We'll get on to, yeah, Bronson, who is another wildcard.
FinleyHOST
Zach, you've had a lot to do with Bronson over the last few years, work with your time at Billabong.
Zac WightmanHOST
I don't think there's a wave more suited
FinleyHOST
to an athlete on Earth than Bronson Mady at a fucking cloud nine.
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