Randy Goldberg: Co-Founder & Chief Brand Officer of Bombas

Episode 703

On this episode of The Kara Goldin Show, I sit down with Randy Goldberg, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Bombas—the mission-driven comfort brand best known for its ultra-comfortable socks, underwear, and t-shirts, and for donating one item for every item purchased. Since launching in 2013, Bombas has donated over 150 million items to those in need through partnerships with more than 3,500 community organizations.
In our conversation, Randy shares the early days of building Bombas—from discovering that socks were the most requested item in homeless shelters to creating a business that scaled profit and purpose. We talk about how he and Co-Founder Dave Heath designed a better sock, got a deal on Shark Tank, built a standout brand in a crowded space, and stayed true to their mission through every stage of growth. He also opens up about creative leadership, the power of empathy in business, and the infrastructure it takes to scale giving at a national level.
If you’re interested in building a brand with heart, rethinking how business can serve communities, or hearing what it looks like to grow with integrity—this is an episode you won’t want to miss. Now on The Kara Goldin Show.

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Kara Goldin 0:00
I am unwilling to give up that I will start over from scratch as many times as it takes to get where I want to be. I want to be you. Just want to make sure you will get knocked down. But just make sure you don’t get knocked out, knocked out. So your only choice should be go focus on what you can control. Control. Control. Hi everyone, and welcome to the Kara Goldin show. Join me each week for inspiring conversations with some of the world’s greatest leaders. We’ll talk with founders, entrepreneurs, CEOs and really, some of the most interesting people of our time. Can’t wait to get started. Let’s go. Let’s go. Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Kara Goldin show. Super excited to have my next guest with us here today. I’ve been wanting to meet Randy for some time, who is the co founder and Chief Brand Officer of Bombas. And if you have not heard of Bombas, you’re going to be so excited to hear all about this mission driven brand that is just been killing it for years, basically killing it without losing its soul, losing its impact, or losing its growth. So Randy Goldberg is the co founder and Chief Brand Officer of Bombas. And you know the insanely comfortable socks you’ve probably seen everywhere, but might not know that every pair they sell, they donate one to someone in need. And to date, that’s over 150 million, possibly a little bit more. So Randy and his co founder, one of his co founders, Dave Heath. I have met him before as well through YPO, and they’ve built this company to solve a real problem. And we’ll talk all about that today. We’re also going to talk about the mission, how they’ve turned it into a scaling business, and so much more so. Oh, and by the way, you might have also seen him on Shark Tank at some point, so I can’t wait to talk about that, go back a little many, many years and and chat about that too. So, Randy, so excited that you’re here.

Randy Goldberg 2:17
Thank you so much for having me. Excited to be here, absolutely. So

Kara Goldin 2:22
let’s start with the origin story. How did Bombas begin, and what was that spark that made you commit to building it?

Randy Goldberg 2:32
Well, you mentioned Dave. So Dave and I had been working together at a previous job, and we would have lunch together and talk about business ideas. I think we were both pretty entrepreneurial, but it wasn’t at the moment what we were we were thinking, at some point, maybe we’ll start a business together, but we didn’t have an idea, and we weren’t forcing it. And one day, he saw a campaign on Facebook, a Salvation Army campaign, and it said socks were the most requested clothing item in homeless shelters. And he asked if I knew it, and I didn’t know it. And we were like, How can this be true? You know, I don’t know. We don’t think about socks. It’s just not, it’s not something most people give a thought to on a daily basis beyond just putting them on and leaving. So we called a shelter in New York where we were living and asked about it, and they said, Well, yeah, we don’t let people donate used socks for hygiene reasons. We’re like, okay, that makes sense. And they’re they went on to think, to say that if you’re living on the street, you know you may be changing your socks less frequently, or keep your shoes on at night, if you don’t want you’re afraid somebody might steal them. And all these things add up to potential foot issues or walking places, or may have less frequent availability for washing your clothes. So they’re like, socks become a huge issue, and then foot issues, so fresh socks mean a lot, and then we don’t have them because we don’t let people donate them. We have to go buy it, and then it’s expensive for us. We’re hearing all this about socks. We’re like, socks. Like, go ahead and thought about this for 10 minutes my whole life, right? So we’re like, okay, we want to help. So we bought some socks and donated them. And it wasn’t like this instant, you know, amazing entrepreneurial moment. We were just like, wow. Eventually, though it just started, it stuck with us. We’re like, this is really sad, and I wonder how we can help. And eventually we got to the idea that maybe there’s a business here, right? You know, Tom’s was, at the time, in their fifth year business, and doing really well with one. For one, there were some other companies starting and, you know, we had known that there, there you could build a business and try and get back at the same time at the core of it. And we thought, I think there’s really like a fit here. And then we started to think about socks, the consumer side of it, and especially athletic socks, felt like they hadn’t changed in 50 years. So we started to tinker, and we said, let’s start a one for one sock business, and let’s try and solve a problem in our community through business. And that was the beginning of it. We had no experience. We hadn’t grown up dreaming of being in the sock business. I mean, I don’t think anybody has, you know, it’s just. It was just a very random thing that came across our desk, and think we were at the right stage in our life and open minded and not just naive enough to dive into making socks. Now,

Kara Goldin 5:10
did you come from the apparel business? Did you have any insight into this industry at all, just

Randy Goldberg 5:17
from a branding perspective? So I worked at Brand agencies, and I was a copywriter and a consultant, and I had worked for a lot of apparel companies, you know. So I would help companies that were old and sort of lost their way find the spark and what made them great, and why, what made them once, you know, just sort of writing copy and thinking through how to communicate internally and then build new versions of these companies from a brand perspective. And I’d also run a sort of apparel, high end apparel flea market, like a pop up shop called pop up flea with a different friend. And we had been doing this business, curating really interesting brands in one room and kind of opening a store for a weekend. So we got a lot of firsthand experience working with and partnering with brands that sold product that we loved and made things in an interesting way. And so I worked with a lot of small brands in that world and understood, you know, what I loved about a great product, and worked with a lot of big brands that had lost their way and helped try and find the story there, and then putting all that experience together really helped with Bombas. So

Kara Goldin 6:25
the two of you decide to launch this business. How many SKUs did you actually launch with? What was the first step in actually launching the company? I

Randy Goldberg 6:36
mean, the first step is, how do you make a sock, right? So we had a we’d gotten connected to a factory that helped us for two years before we launched the business. So we just got obsessed with making the best version of this product. We felt like there wasn’t something represented in the marketplace that had really amazing features and comfort that you could find here and there in high end niche, like athletic socks, and then bringing that to an everyday product that people could put on every day. So we felt like it didn’t exist. So we were cutting apart market samples and sending them into a factory and working on, you know, 150 iterations of the tension level and a calf socks that would stay up and not fall down, but not leave a mark, just being perfectionist about making a better version of something that we’re all very familiar with. So it was, it was our crash course and that, and we would do things in the factory. We’d say, Well, you can’t do that. That costs three cents. And say, all right, like, I know, socks are generally done, you know, pennies per dozen, but let’s do it. Let’s try. Let’s go crazy here, you know. So it was just about finding that right product and then figuring out how to donate a product. It was the same idea that we had leading up to our launch, the day that we launched, a year in five years in 10 years in is the foundation of this company. Make the best version of something. Of the things that you put on first in the morning take off last at night, the things that have the biggest impact on your comfort, and then donate a product locally in all 50 states, make an impact in the communities where all of our customers are buying the product, give people something that they’re asking for and that they need, make the impact real. So the whole thing works together, and that’s how it was in the beginning. Is just figuring out how to do it.

Kara Goldin 8:19
You launched your website, and so how many SKUs did you actually launch with? Yeah,

Randy Goldberg 8:24
we launched an Indiegogo campaign at first, actually, and then used the money from that to build our first website, and it was 16 SKUs. So we had ankle height and calf height in four different colors, and that’s sort of the we had for two years before we expanded, but that was it, and they were black with neon accent colors, or gray with neon accent colors, and that was it. We didn’t have a solid sock. We didn’t have anything simple. We didn’t have the things that are the foundation of what we sell today. We had this one product, but people just loved how they felt and how they felt when they put them on, and they didn’t like the feeling when they would open their drawer and the Bombas that they had bought were in the wash. So we knew we had something when we were starting to get into that zone.

Kara Goldin 9:08
And did you partner with a homeless shelter that was kind of a nationwide brand, or was it or was it just local at

Randy Goldberg 9:19
first? Our first giving partner was a organization in Ohio. So basically, we were flying blind on this as well. It’s like, how do you donate it? We were googling it, right? And we found an organization that had been started by a young girl who had been volunteering on Thanksgiving and noticed that a man was wearing tin foil around his feet, and asked her mom about it. And then she started a company called Hannah socks. She’s they’re still one of our giving partners today, and they donate socks in Ohio. And we called them and we say, Hey, we’re starting this company, and we’re going to be selling socks, and for every pair we sell, we’re donating it. Do you mind if we start sending you lots of donation socks? Hopefully, and they, they couldn’t believe that. We were just going to send them socks, because they’re raising money and buying them, and it was, you know, a big deal for them. So it was like a happy partnership from the beginning, and then from there, we branched out, and we still let anybody sign up to be a giving partner for Bombas, you just go on our site, you fill out a form, there’s a wait list, and then we have, now we have over 4000 partners across all 50 states, and some of them take a million pairs a year, and some take as little as 250 pairs a year. That’s

Kara Goldin 10:28
amazing. I mean, that must I remember the when you first launched and hearing about this and I mean, that must have made you feel also really great. I mean, you’re working really hard to launch a business, but you’re also hearing that you’re having impact immediately, and that people are very, very excited about Bombas and every all the great work that you’re doing, looking back at those first few years, what was the moment when you realized, okay, this is Working.

Randy Goldberg 11:00
You know, there’s always moments of doubt, as you know, and you’re an entrepreneur, like every step along the way, right? You’re just, you put a business plan together, and you think, who’s going to buy this plan, that we’re actually going to do this, and then you blow through it. But I do think for us, you know, when we hit a million pairs donated, that was a huge milestone moment for us, right? Because we set out to do that in 10 years, and it took us over just over two years to get there, and we put out a video to thank our customers when we hit a million pairs donated. And that was like a big viral moment for us. That video, we had just expanded our product line, and we had gotten some really good press at the time, and all those things kind of came together in one moment. And we were like, Okay, this is really taking off in a way that we didn’t expect, and is amazing. And the impact that we’re having is super real as well, which is always, always the thing that drove us in this business.

Kara Goldin 11:56
Yeah, so you were one of the early breakout brands on Shark Tank. So I guess, how did it come about? And also, what did that experience teach you? Shark

Randy Goldberg 12:08
Tank? It’s a pretty wild experience. We We got an email from a producer there who had seen our Indiegogo campaign, and, you know, we thought it was a bit of a prank, or one of our friends, because the it wasn’t like an official email address, it was just somebody’s Gmail, you know, but we tracked it down, turned out to be real, and then it’s kind of, it was kind of a long process where you’re speaking to them and feeling each other out, and, you know, there’s a huge legal process that you go through, and eventually They say, Okay, we need you in Los Angeles in three weeks on this date, you say, okay, and you show up and you know, you go through the process. You meet the producers, you work through your it’s just like a process. The whole thing you’re on set, building your own set, right? There’s no one to build, so you’re doing it’s a little bit DIY. And eventually you find yourself walking down that hallway, and you’re looking around, thinking, this looks like Shark Tank. And you’re like, Oh, I’m on, I’m on Shark Tank. And you stand there, and, you know, for us, we were have the conversation in the room was over an hour, and then they cut it into like an eight minute segment. So it’s a very real conversation with these very loud investors who are all, you know, trying to be the one to say the right thing, you know. So it’s a TV show, but it’s also very much a real thing. And we did a deal with Daymond John, who’s been wonderful, and, you know, also in New Yorker, so we were able to meet with him, and that’s been a really great relationship. Yeah, it’s been, it was a very cool experience. We said, if nothing else, it’s a great experience, you know. But I’ll say this, it is a very good like, if you have a young business, like we did at the time, it was, we were a year in, you know, when you’re preparing to be on national television where somebody can ask you anything about your business, there’s a lot of things that you have to talk about out loud that maybe you weren’t talking about. Because if they can ask you anything, you have to have an answer. So we did so much prep work, and that prep work made us a better business. So even if we hadn’t made it to air, to taping, and even even if our taping hadn’t made it to air, the experience was very good for our business and sort of helping us focus our story, make sure we had answers to tough questions, and talk about things that maybe as the four of us, the four founders, we weren’t talking about so very positive experience for us.

Kara Goldin 14:32
That’s awesome. So let’s talk about branding. You came from the creative side and the branding and copyright, and what was your vision for Bombas as a brand? And how has that evolved? We

Randy Goldberg 14:48
started our company to help solve a problem in our community. The mission came before the product, and then the product had to be great, right? We always say, to solve the problem we want to solve, we have to make the best product in the world. So we have to make a great product. We have to like follow through on our commitment to the community, and those two elements are the pillars of our brand. They have been since day one, and they still are to this day, how you tell the story and what you say, and the products that we make right we now make slippers, T shirts and underwear, as well as socks and all of those things, get donation products associated with them. But the core idea and the essence of our brand stayed the same, and we wanted to make sure that if we were launching a mission based brand, that it wasn’t always going to be a depressing communication with our customers, right? We still have an exciting product, and a lot of people come to our brand don’t know about the mission, learn about it through the purchase process, and it’s just an extra bonus. And then some people come to us because they know that our mission is authentic, because we spend a lot of money and a lot of time trying to communicate around it and to be transparent and to give our close that feedback loop with our customers, so they know where the donation that their sale is generating is going.

Kara Goldin 16:01
So you moved into underwear and T shirts. You went, I should say, beyond socks. What was the point when you decided we’re going to do more than what we initially thought? And when do brands do that? When do you expand especially into other categories.

Randy Goldberg 16:21
Yeah, this is something that we were excited about since the beginning. And it’s the kind of thing where I think if you launch a brand like ours, you get very excited about all the different possibilities and what it could be the discipline and where you you get really good is earning the right to expand before you expand, right? So before you launch T shirts and underwear, have you done enough with socks? Have you won enough? Are you in a position where you’ve earned that right? And you know, you can make the argument for us. Did we expand too soon or not soon enough? These are debates that we have all the time. You know, you sort of move on. We launch amazing products that we love, but I think it’s the idea of focus for entrepreneurs is a huge thing. There’s a lot of different shiny objects out there that can distract you. There are a lot of ways that you could spend your time chasing down new things that seem fun to you. But if you want to cut through in today’s world, you’ve got to be great at something, and you’ve got to do that over and over again. And it’s the same with branding, right? I talk about how our brand has stayed the same since the beginning. If you’re not sick of saying the same lines and hammering the same point like over and over again, if you’re not sick of saying the same thing, you’re not saying it enough. Is how I tend to feel about these things. And it’s the same with the product you you have so we had so much runway and still do in socks that you have to really, I think, establish yourself before you expand. And you know, the there’s lots of case studies out there of companies who have expanded too quickly, and you know, those other products don’t work as well, and nobody wants that from them. And you know, you have to be really smart and strategic about this, not that I have the roadmap or the answers. We

Kara Goldin 18:05
launched a couple of products beyond water at hint a few years ago that were totally outside of of hint and totally outside of food and beverage, just to really see how far we could carry the hint brand into other categories, and it was really interesting. Didn’t always make sense to everybody, but we launched sunscreen and also launched a deodorant that were cleaner versions of these kind of industry leaders in both deodorant as well as sunscreen. And the interesting thing that we found was that we actually ended up gaining consumers who didn’t necessarily want a hint water, that didn’t have sweeteners, didn’t have sugar in it, they might have been drinking soda. And then all of a sudden, they tried these other products and fell in love with it, and then they came in and tried hint water at that point, which I thought was really, really fascinating. And I would guess that that would be the same, because your other products that you’ve launched, I know are terrific. I’ve got a few guys in my house that have really, really loved them, so it’s great.

Randy Goldberg 19:14
Yeah, it’s very hard to you know, do you want to be the kind of company that responds to what your customer is telling you they want, or do you want to be the kind of custody that’s showing your customers something based on what you think they might want and like they may not know how to ask for it if you don’t show it to them. So I think that’s a tough balance for us. Fortunately, the mission side of our business is a really strong guideline for our product roadmap. Right socks are the most requested clothing item in homeless shelters. Underwear is number 2t, shirts and number three, we make socks T shirts and underwear and slippers, we think of as kind of sock adjacent. So it all makes sense for the mission story and for the problem that we’re trying to solve. And that’s our first check and our first idea of where, where we could. With our product. And I think those four categories for us, that’s where we need to live for a long time. There’s a lot, a lot that we can do, a lot that we can show people there,

Kara Goldin 20:10
definitely. So you start off as a D to C business, and you moved into retail, what have been the biggest differences for you and the biggest learnings, I guess, in expanding and how you show up in each channel. Yeah, we

Randy Goldberg 20:24
have amazing wholesale partners that we work with, and we’ve worked with for years now, and we’re expanding that part of our world because it’s working. And, you know, we want to meet people where they are. We were born as a direct to consumer company, so for us, the story and having that conversation with our customers is super important, right? When you have a website that you’re sending people through and different places where you’re connecting with them, you have so much opportunity to share a story or to, you know, showcase messaging that you know helps make your product more top of mind or stickier get someone to purchase. When you’re in a store, you’re relying on that store sales associates to sell your product. You’re relying on the merchandising there. There’s a lot you can do to help control that, and a lot of the partners that we’ve picked are super bought into our mission, which is really helpful for us, but it’s definitely a new world, right? All of a sudden, your packaging becomes more important for us on when you’re selling a product online. By the time it shows up to someone’s store, they’ve already made their decision, right? The packaging is an unboxing experience, which is important, but totally secondary to the experience of going through our site and our advertising, our marketing in that world. When you’re in the store, the packaging is your only that’s your product detail page, that’s your category page, right? So you have to think about that differently. So those are the kinds of things that we think about. You know, the difference between direct consumer and being like a wholesale brand, that’s a

Kara Goldin 21:51
really interesting point, because I think it’s also when you’re a D to C. I know when I get d to c products and, you know, they’re almost over packaged, I have a different opinion than maybe if I went into a store and saw that, and it’s, it’s all, you know, packaging, but it just depends on how it shows up to me and how I think about it, yeah,

Randy Goldberg 22:13
it’s as a consumer. I have the same reaction, you know, now I think of it and I’m like, Okay, this company is in stores. Because this packaging was built for stores. They’re just sending it to you as a consumer. And I think that’s a tough I think a lot of companies have to deal with that. Do we do separate packaging for for in store versus direct to consumer? I mean, that’s a pretty specific challenge, though,

Kara Goldin 22:33
and so interesting. So we all have failures and and sort of misses along the way. And for any maybe new entrepreneur or existing entrepreneur that thinks that it’s just, you know, a walk in the park to be an entrepreneur, so easy, right? Those guys at Bombas, they never screw up, nothing, ever it all

Unknown Speaker 23:00
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Kara Goldin 23:03
what’s one launch that didn’t go the way you expected? And what’d you learn?

Randy Goldberg 23:08
Yeah? I mean, where do I even start? There’s so many to pick from. But okay, when we launched T shirts for the first time, we launched T shirts second, that was our second product category launch after socks. We should have launched underwear before T shirts. It was a natural next product. The thing that we heard about the most, the number two most requested item in shelters. But T shirts, we had more internal expertise on how to make. We had people who had worked in that before and who had made T shirts. And underwear seemed like a different type of challenge. It was going to take longer. So we said, let’s work on both, and launch T shirts first, first, we made a mistake in our production, and fortunately, we caught the error around the production of the shirts, and before we could launch, we pulled the entire launch, and it cost our company tons of money, but it was a big teaching moment for the company that we stood up there. We owned the mistakes that we made. We took the financial hit. We knew we’d be able to survive it, and we said we’re going to get this product right, and we’re not going to launch it until it’s perfect. And thank thankfully, we did that. And I think you know, when you do something like that, it’s challenging, but it also shows your company that, you know, take some risks, try something, push yourself, but if something isn’t right, own it and the account be accountable, and then we’ll, we’ll figure it out, you know, we’ll make it work. And I think it was a great lesson for our company. We were pretty young company at the time, for the people that work there, but also for us that we could stand behind our, you know, our promise to make the best versions of the products that we make. So we had a problem with the production. And then I also just think timing wise, if I was going to do it again, I would have launched underwear next, and then, and then T shirts, and, you know, slippers, has come out of nowhere, and it’s our second biggest category now. But, yeah, I think you don’t you can make a lot of small mistakes and paper them over with success, but every now and again you’re going. To run into something where you have to stop and step back and say, Okay, we’ve got to fix this with our customers or internally or with our production, and take the time to do it the first time, admit the mistakes that you make and then move on, or else just going to keep haunting you as you go on.

Kara Goldin 25:17
Yeah, I think those those misses too are. They’re great for team building right where you and and owning it right that along the way, I think that it’s uh, every, every great business has it so biggest, uh, kind of holy shit moment where you step back and realized how far Bombas had come. I mean,

Randy Goldberg 25:45
listen, the million pair moment was big for us, and we tend to measure milestones of Bombas in donation milestones, right when you hit a million pairs, 5 million, 10,000,050 and then getting to 100 million items donated, cross socks, tees, underwear, incredible. It’s a very hard number to process. So we we hope we take those moments to step back and kind of translate that into communications for our customers. So we did a campaign for 100 million donate items donated when we hit that milestone where we spoke to people who had experienced homelessness, who are or were currently unhoused, and we have conversations with them that we videoed and we put up, we put up a site around this, in a campaign around compassion. And it wasn’t about product. It wasn’t about selling Bombas. It was about spotlighting voices of people, because we feel like the Sometimes the issue of homelessness is is gets politicized. People have a lot of experience with it in terms of how they live their life, how it shows up in their neighborhood, what they think of as somebody who is homeless. But I think there’s a lot of truths and myths that get conflated. People think it’s one thing when it’s something, often very different. You know, there’s just some stats that we felt were important to share in this campaign, and some firsthand accounts that we thought were important. So I don’t know that was a holy shit moment hitting 100 million items donated and then using that moment to use our microphone and to use the power of our brand to tell some stories that I don’t think would otherwise have been heard. I

Kara Goldin 27:20
love that. So when you think about the build and maybe something that you believed early in your journey, that you’ve completely changed your mind about as as you’ve been in the trenches, building and and, you know, seen, seen a lot. I mean, I think when, when I know that as a founder, and it’s, it’s definitely, you know, it’s, it’s hard. The longer you stay alive, right, the the more challenges there are. And I think you have to be willing to take those on and and get back up again and do all of that. But maybe there’s something that you believed early on that you know, I don’t know that you should, you should only, have only be focused on socks, or you shouldn’t start, you shouldn’t start a company with your friends, because I know that you have co founders. Beyond Dave, you have four total co founders. And I really admire, and I know a lot of people admire, how you guys have been able to stick together and and build what you have that’s pretty awesome. Yeah.

Randy Goldberg 28:38
I mean, having four co founders, a lot of people think that’s a little bit crazy, but for us, it was a huge benefit from from day one, we prioritize our friendship and our relationship. You kind of treat it like a marriage, right, where you say, Don’t go to bed angry, you solve problems in the room. And we had pretty broad shoulders and aligned outlook on the world, but did different things, and that allowed us, in the early days to, you know, spend less money, or four of us, could really focus on building and solve problems together. I’m sure, you know, a lot of people who start a business on their own, it can be lonely, right? Like, that’s really challenging. I mean, that’s tough, I don’t know. I mean, yeah, you hear it all the time, right? Yeah, yeah,

Kara Goldin 29:20
definitely. So last question, what? What keeps you inspired? You’re the Chief Brand Officer beyond the co founder, but how do you personally stay inspired to to not only show up every day, but also create and keep your vision moving forward.

Randy Goldberg 29:44
Very interesting. To think about that 12 years into this business and previously, I’d worked for multiple brands at one time, and always was thinking about a lot of different things, and to be focused on one company and one brand for so long, you wonder. If you have the stamina or the desire to do it. But I feel more motivated than ever around the creative I feel like there’s the stories within our brand that I want to continue to tell. I feel like there are swings I want to take. I’m constantly inspired by other companies who are doing great things in the world. And you know, the way things look and feel great shopping experiences. You know, I travel. Stay inspired. I think you look to worlds that are outside of commerce as well, right? You look to sort of art, literature and writing and these things. You know, we want people at this company, at Bombas, to go out into the world and live their life and have interesting experiences. And I think that they tend to bring those back to the company, and that makes for a really rich like dialog and a really rich creative environment where people can say, Okay, I saw this thing, or I saw these guys were doing this, or what if we did this? And, you know, ideas can come from anywhere in a company, and I’m inspired by the people who work here and the people who we’ve hired on our amazing team by interesting brands doing other things, and then mostly by things completely outside of the world of business and commerce, where it’s just people who are putting ideas to play in, you know, art and literature and places like that. So lots of places to find inspiration out in the world. Very,

Kara Goldin 31:18
very cool. Well. Randy, thank you so much for joining us today. Bomb Buzz is such a real story, and you guys are doing lots of great stuff, so beyond socks and continuing to grow. So what a great, great thing that you’ve done to really start this company, scale this company really, really terrific. So everyone needs to check out Bombas.com buy a pair and know that it’s the second pair is going to an incredible initiative. And Thank you always for joining us and also for listening. So thanks again, Randy,

Randy Goldberg 31:57
thank you for having me. Kara. Really appreciate it. Thanks

Kara Goldin 32:00
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