Timothy S. Leatherman

And yeah, I mean, I've, I've got a few, uh, props here.

I started with a Leatherman Wave.

Good place.

And I th- I thought this would be it.

Maybe to slice an apple.

I can keep a knife in my lunch bag.

I don't need something that's this big, like the Leatherman Wave, and this is the serrated blade.

I definitely don't need that on a daily basis.

And I'm Lynn Ware Peek.

What do you do when you have a big idea, but no idea how to make it happen? For our guest, Tim Leatherman, the answer was to start figuring it out.

On a 1975 trip through Europe, a frustrating encounter with a broken down Fiat, imagine that, sparked the idea for a pocket knife with pliers and eventually led to the creation of the iconic Leatherman multi-tool.

now in tim leatherman's new book he turns decades of invention and entrepreneurship into practical lessons for anyone with an idea worth pursuing the book is called surprise the leatherman book stories lessons and advice from the inventor of america's original multi-tool tim leatherman welcome to the

show hello thank you happy to be here

We're really happy to have you.

And I can't even tell you the conversations I had leading up to this interview where people said things like, oh, I thought it was called the Leatherman because it was all the things you could do to leather and things like that.

They had no idea that the inventor could possibly be named Tim Leatherman.

We've had you several times to talk about tools and to talk about killing rodents and all sorts of handy things.

Today, we are talking about a tool that you have tested and recommended for many years, the Leatherman Skeletool CX.

Yeah, so it's a multi-tool.

So you wanna just think of it, it's kinda like a Swiss Army knife.

I just, I just took care of it right there.

And the Skeletool CX does have a knife, and that's really helpful just for opening like a bag of cat litter or dog food or just opening packages.

I have heard the brand name Leatherman since, I feel like since I was a kid.

I feel like this has been around a long time.

Kip Bodnar is the author of a new book called Loop, and he's also the chief marketing officer at software giant HubSpot.

Tim Leatherman is the creator of the tool that bears his name, the Leatherman Multi-Tool.

Their worlds cannot be more different, but their answer is exactly the same.

This is Daily Creative.

It was to learn faster than the disruption.

Now, I want you to hear what that same principle looks like when the loop isn't measured in days, but in years.

In 1983, Tim Leatherman and his partner mailed a photo of his prototype to more than 100 catalog companies.

They got zero replies.

But like, it's great to have this team back together.

And my co-host today is friend of the show, former guest and watch nerd, Keith Curato, VP of product at Leatherman.

Keith, how are you today? I am excellent.

Thanks for having me again.

And

just tell us, Keith, like a quick – bracy of something that's got that's on your docket at leatherman at the moment like what's what's something that's going on for you um just to give the folks a little bit of context just as we come into this conversation oh man a

lot going on you know yesterday we just launched our new set of colors for the micro which is one of our favorite uh fan favorite tools uh so team team absolutely nailed that and then i think as a company we're getting excited to uh Tim Leatherman wrote an autobiography.

So that comes out on October 6th and it'll be a great read.