Mickey Drexler

It just doesn't like interest me.

I think it's, you know what I had, it's funny because I had Tom actually had us on some calls with Mickey Drexler and Mickey Drexler is super cool.

It was like during COVID and like, I, you know, Tom knew that I was trying to figure out, figure it out.

And so he was being super cool.

He's like, okay, like Mickey Drexler is like, he's like, if you don't know, he was like the guy who like made the gap and like, like, big time guy awesome dude we had like a couple conversations like through like facetime and at the end of the day he said hey pat i'll give you a million bucks but do you want me to be your boss or do you want to do your own things like i've always always found that i don't like having partners so you tell me what you want you want a million bucks want me to be your boss or do you want to like do your own thing and i'm like i'll do my own thing

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It got me.

As Mickey Drexler used to say from the gap, I'm 10,000 people.

I'm going to Sam's Club now for gas.

I'm doing my bulk buys via digital, which everyone has the best option for me.

It got me.

As Mickey Drexler used to say from the gap, I'm 10,000 people.

I'm going to Sam's Club now for gas.

I'm doing my bulk buys via digital, which everyone has the best option for me.

So when you say merchandising, you're talking like give a definition of what that means to Tracksmith.

Mickey Drexler, who was the CEO of Gap, and J.

Crew used to say that merchant's the shopkeeper.

So you've got to be able to work across the entire ecosystem to make sure that your plan and your assortments are delivering on what the consumer expects, what the business expects, and then also continue to move it forward.

And it was okay, but I needed something for our generation.

And I remember there was a big Fortune magazine cover on Mickey Drexler when he was at Gap.

And

the title of that cover was, Everybody in White Shirts.

They're part of the Gap family, and this is very unfamily-like to demand a different discount rate.

And I said, what did the CEO say? At that time, it was Mickey Drexler, one of the legendary Mickey really wants this division.

He likes this division.

He wants it to succeed.