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By selling shoes and donating a pair for every purchase, Mycoskie built TOMS into a $600 million brand that delivered over 100 million pairs to children in need — and handed every social entrepreneur that followed a proven blueprint.
Blake Mycoskie is the Founder of TOMS Shoes, the footwear company that pioneered the one-for-one business model-donating a pair of shoes for every pair sold.
Founded in 2006 after Mycoskie witnessed children in Argentina without shoes, TOMS grew into a global brand that has donated over 100 million pairs of shoes and funded sight-restoring surgeries, clean water programs, and anti-bullying initiatives worldwide. The one-for-one model inspired an entire generation of social enterprises and demonstrated that purpose-driven business could achieve commercial success. TOMS reached peak revenues of over $600 million and became a cultural symbol of conscious consumerism. Mycoskie has been recognized by Fortune as one of the 40 most influential people in business and has received numerous awards for social entrepreneurship. He authored the bestselling book Start Something That Matters. His innovation in combining profit with purpose created a blueprint that thousands of companies have since followed.
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