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Chip Wilson

Chip Wilson

American-Canadian businessman and investor

Oct 5, 2026

23:16
Mm.
23:16
You know, so you can see the change over the years, and I, I think I was just, uh, an observant person to this type of thing.
23:23
So I think when, when, um, I got into, um, you know, I had, you know, I, I recognized the market for yoga much like I saw the market for surf, skate, and snowboarding.
23:37
But then I really saw this, um, I, I remember reading in 19, um, 96 that nine- that 60% of the graduates were out of university were women, and I knew that that would continue because I think, uh, women are smarter than men.
23:53
They're, um, on so many levels.
23:55
I mean, their linguistic, uh, you know, abilities are, are, are, are phenomenal, and I think that they're, they're more studious.
24:02
And I could see the trend going from when I was in university of 30% women to 60% women.

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45:36
Um, what do you th- like, how do we fight for the right to tell the truth? Like, what can we do, all of us as a society, as a country, or whatever, to try and make free speech something that we embrace again, even if we don't like what we're hearing?
29:48
Can you sort of briefly summarize which ones you think are the most important or in what order you think they took place?
29:57
Well, I call it the Gapivization of American retail, when it goes public and loses its founder or its head of product and brand.
30:06
And when that happens, the board comes in, more of a metric type board that's more beholden to Wall Street.
30:13
and quarterly numbers, and it hires people that can deliver specific quarterly numbers.
30:21
And those people are generally very good and everything, but they're not creative, and they tend to use algorithms to buy and sell what's sold the year before.
30:32
So basically, innovation stops.
30:35
And so when that stops, then you start losing great people.
35:24
Have you gone that far?

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