Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company

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'Hey, friends, we just gave our company to planet Earth.' (Nice people Patagonia) vs. Right-Wing Dark Money Group Gets $1.6 Billion Donation From Tax-Dodging Business Mogul (Bad people hellbent on destroying this planet)

As global warming intensifies droughts, floods and wildfires, a growing number of scientists and other “beaver believers”In a more drastic forecast than earlier assessments, a new study found that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could eventually

Mr. Mosley said the story was unlike any other he had seen in his career. “In my 30 plus years of estate planning, what the Chouinard family has done is really remarkable,” he said. “It’s irrevocably committed. They can’t take it back out again, and they don’t want to ever take it back out again.” Even today, he wears raggedy old clothes, drives a beat up Subaru and splits his time between modest homes in Ventura and Jackson, Wyo. Mr. Chouinard does not own a computer or a cellphone.

Over the next several months, the group explored a range of options, including selling part or all of the company, turning Patagonia into a cooperative with the employees as owners, becoming a nonprofit, and even using a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. “I don’t respect the stock market at all,” he said. “Once you’re public, you’ve lost control over the company, and you have to maximize profits for the shareholder, and then you become one of these irresponsible companies.”

 

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