Aiming For Zero Carbon Emissions
In an economy where 90 percent of startups fail within the first three years, Allbirds, the San Francisco-based footwear and apparel company launched in March 2016, has defeated those odds by a high margin: it racked up an estimated valuation of $1.6 billion by 2021.
Allbirds began as a question in the mind of co-founder Tim Brown. After an eight-year professional soccer career, the native of New Zealand, a country where sheep outnumber people 6 to 1, began asking why wool, “such a remarkable, sustainable resource was virtually absent in footwear.” Co-founder Joey Zwillinger, an engineer and renewables expert, partnered with Brown to perfect the fabric for their ...
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