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- Hi guys, my name is Tim Brown.

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I'm the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Allbirds.

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Right out of the gate,
when this first happened,

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we were forced to close
14 of our 18 retail stores

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and some of our international
markets around the world.

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And we committed straightaway
to the really important idea

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of keeping that group together.

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And we've done that,
we're really proud of it.

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For other parts of the team,

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I think you were seeing,
people working from home

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and a more on vanish fashion
not being asked for putting it,

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in their homes, with their kids,

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all tryna make it through
a really uncertain time.

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And there has been a
general sense of empathy

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and a connection to the idea
that we're all in this together

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that I think has been really
powerful to be a part of,

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obviously that is an idea,

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that's bigger than just
Allbirds there all there,

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I think it's a global feeling.

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It hasn't always been perfect Sure.

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But it has been powerful to sort of see,

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this global community, rise up
sort of fight this challenge.

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One of the cool things that we
did several weeks into this,

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led by my Co-Founder Joy.

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We sort of realized that all of this

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was becoming a bit of a grind,
we were kind of working hard,

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in some cases, harder
than we ever had before.

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But we would pick it up.

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And we were, reacting
rather than imagining,

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and we'd lost a little bit
of that creative spark.

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So we decided as a leadership
group within Allbirds,

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to run a visioning session, with the team.

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We got together in small groups,

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and we just wrote about what
the future would look like,

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two years from now, a specific
date two years from now,

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no rules, no real constraints,

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what is it that we might do differently?

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What are the opportunities that we might

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imagine ourselves taking advantage of,

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but what would be the same,

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and it was a really
fun way of kind of like

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picking our heads up and
giving ourselves permission

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and this is really
important part permission,

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to imagine in a really
difficult negative situation,

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all the positives that
will undoubtedly come from

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and it was a great thing for our team.

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And I suggest over an hour or so

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might be something you guys
might want to try as well.

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