"[Music] rose we're so excited to have you here today thank you for coming thank you it's great to be here at Stanford it's just amazing it's wonderful now I'm not sure if you know this but Patagonia i..."

"thank you it's great to be here so I'd love to start with your personal journey before you found your way to Patagonia early in your career you reached the heights of professional success in PE and in..."

"anymore and then I started working in private equity because I thought I'd have more freedom it would be more exciting and I was really disappointed by it I know some of you are gonna go work so I fee..."

"focus on the environment well nature is like to me it's it's like a spiritual experience and it's just an experience of awe and you know we we don't get a lot of those experiences I think in our day t..."

"the things that will you know will will help us survive and Evon in some ways had this pioneering almost anti-corporate vision of responsible business and since you've joined you've quadrupled revenue..."

"their gear and so as a leader at Patagonia how do you decide where to place these bets on being different you know it comes out of what's happening in the moment you know like the when we donate our B..."

"just we just decided last year we gave away that trump tax cut and this year we had another you know 10 million - we felt like to give away in addition but we thought this year ok we're going to ask o..."

"do something and while we're on this topic of sort of growth and values at some point if Patagonia continues to grow its retail business that could come attention between that and sort of the environm..."

"change the business model and that's amis like innovation it's really exciting you know the people that we have working on that they are stoked about it they are you know blazing new trails and buildi..."

"we're in we only you know so there's some estimates to say when they have 50 or 60 harvests left I know it's like it bums you out right but in some way in some way like it should also excite the you k..."

"absolutely and moving forward do you see the agriculture aren't being sort of almost as big if not bigger than I think it could be yeah and I think you know we also have said really strong carbon goal..."

"industry well I think the benefit corporation movement has been a really important part of of showing that business should be responsible to multiple stakeholders when we became the first California b..."

"some cases why do you choose to leave that way well it just makes you know because we're not a huge huge company it just makes other it just just helps innovations to scale you know if we do it and th..."

"and you know they think twice about you know buying that product you know I I think that as a brand we've always had a belief that we make a great product will repair it for you if you need it repaire..."

"out a way to recycle the materials that you have but you have to you know the customer has their part of the bargain - and yeah and the work that you're doing on warren west seems to be an interesting..."

"zoom out from Patagonia's business and culture and talk a bit more about your views on corporate leadership particularly in the 21st century with all of the problems that we're facing under your leade..."

"Clean Water Act and you know we're not going to sit by while all the protections to wild lands are dismantled you know we're just not going to sit by and watch that and I I don't think other companies..."

"on the flip side you have spoken out against tech leaders for the sort of refusal to take responsibility for their impact on society where do you see the sector falling short and how can we as a spiri..."

"earnings report yeah absolutely and Larry Fink of Blackrock just put climate at the center of his annual letter you know we've seen a lot of talk about these things in the past do you feel like we're ..."

"your career and trajectory and many of us in this room at Stanford hope to have found companies we're known for attracting aspiring entrepreneurs but there's this other equally powerful path of workin..."

"quality he's he always has really really focused on quality and I think he's right to always bring it back to that because at the end of the day we're selling a product and we want that product to be ..."

"many of us hoped to make pivots throughout our career and your pivot from private equity to Patagonia is an incredible example how do you shift your mindset to adapt to the new industry that you're in..."

"because it's where you kind of are confronted with all these sort of tensions that you don't have in your family life you know and you have to navigate through them in difficult people or difficult bu..."

"carbon plan someone told me I could spend a hundred thousand dollars and I could offset all of our you know all of our carbon in the US and I was like that makes absolutely no sense to me like just in..."

"in a real way so just just keep asking those deep questions because you know that's how you hold people accountable really you know I rose thanks for being here I'm Carolyn Lane a first year MBA stude..."

"rose I'm Isabel Fisher a second year MBA student here um I came to do my MBA because I really do believe the private sector has a big role to play in addressing challenges that face the world however ..."

"and you know it it means a lot even if you're a small business you know it means a lot if you let your voice be known to your you know to your legislators and to the you know become active in your in ..."

"concept but it kind of is I mean you know it's interesting maybe that's something you guys will solve okay we're taking one last question hi thank you so much um it is awesome to have an openly queer ..."

"actually so we usually end our talks on a lighthearted lightning round and for this one I thought we could get the audience involved so we're going to play a quick game of Patagonia workforce policy t..."