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Seven years ago, Allbirds<\/a> co-founder Tim Brown was living a very different life. A professional soccer player in New Zealand, Brown was on the brink of retirement from the game with only an inkling of what might come next. But that inkling became a product that is the backbone of a reportedly $1.4 billion business.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While playing soccer, Brown found himself yearning for a sneaker that was simpler than the ones he wore on the field\u2014one that was as straightforward in its design as it was to manufacture. As it turned out, it didn\u2019t exist. Could Brown create one? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI literally went on Google, found a shoe factory, and visited it in the middle of one of my off-seasons, just because I was curious,\u201d Brown told Benjamin Landy, senior editor at <\/span>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/span><\/i>\u2019s The Hive, during a recent talk at <\/span>WeWork Now<\/a> in New York City. \u201cThis whole thing really started as a curiosity project\u2014to solve a problem that was only my own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter Allbirds, which in just three short years has spearheaded the direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail disruption. For Brown and his co-founder, biotechnology engineer Joey Zwillinger, less has always been more. The sneaker startup launched with just one product (its now-signature Wool Runners) largely composed of one material (wool) sourced from Brown\u2019s native New Zealand. It didn\u2019t release a second shoe until a year later, and a third and fourth a year after that. Today, Allbirds has grown to more than 200 employees, moving into a 13,000-square-foot headquarters in San Francisco\u2019s Jackson Square neighborhood last fall. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown says none of this would be possible if Allbirds hadn\u2019t committed to simplicity from the beginning. But no matter what stage a business is in, entrepreneurs can incorporate that mind-set into their own operations. Here\u2019s how. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Benjamin Landy (left) and Tim Brown pose together after their discussion about building Allbirds’s business from the ground up.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Seek answers to simple questions. <\/b>Brown stumbled into the world of footwear when he wondered why the simplest things were the way they were\u2014and wasn\u2019t satisfied by the responses he received.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI started asking really, really simple questions, and no one could give me a good answer, like, \u2018What\u2019s a size 9?\u2019 \u2018Well, it depends. It\u2019s different for Adidas and it\u2019s different for Nike,\u2019\u201d he remembers. \u201cI was going down this rabbit hole of understanding the industry through fresh eyes.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown claims that his and Zwillinger’s inexperience became a competitive advantage as they worked to clarify some of the more convoluted aspects of traditional footwear, like, yes, sizing.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t overcomplicate gut decisions. <\/b>Before teaming up with Zwillinger, Brown enrolled in a 10-week entrepreneurship course at Northwestern University, where he began to hone his idea for a wool sneaker. His professor wasn\u2019t convinced by the concept but, witnessing Brown\u2019s drive, encouraged him to pursue it. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018For whatever reason, of all the other 50 young people in this class, you seem to be driven to try to solve this particular problem, so you should throw it out into the world,\u2019\u201d Brown recalls him saying.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That gut-check led Brown to move past his initial doubts, but it wasn\u2019t until he teamed up with Zwillinger that the pair decided to build Allbirds full-time. They made the decision to launch the company over the course of just one weekend spent together in San Francisco. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was one of those quick decisions\u2014usually the best ones are,\u201d says Brown. \u201cWe made that decision without raising any money, but we decided that the vision was big and we wanted it to have a maximum impact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live or die by doing one or two things exceptionally well. <\/b>In retail, the direct-to-consumer experience is all about specialization. Allbirds launched with just one shoe and sold that same one shoe for the first 14 months. To even get to that point, though, Brown recalls the product going through \u201cmore than 200\u201d tweaks and variations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat insane focus is probably something more akin to a specialist butcher, or a florist, or a cheesemonger,\u201d he says. \u201cWe were coming in to solve a particular problem and we were going to curate our experience in a very, very specific way. We were going to live and die by that solution.” <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do more by delegating. <\/b>When Allbirds raised its first round of funding in 2015 and the company began to scale, Brown and Zwillinger were still touching every nook and cranny of the business, from answering phones to packing shipments. That couldn\u2019t last.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe idea is that you hire really smart people who know what they\u2019re doing better than you, and you\u2019ve got to somehow find a way to do more by letting go,\u201d says Brown. \u201cI think anyone who\u2019s been through that process probably finds it a little bit hard. \u201c <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make business decisions simply because they\u2019re the right thing to do. <\/b>Allbirds\u2019 shoes are sustainably crafted throughout every step of the process, from the Merino wool that’s sheared in New Zealand to the final pair of shoes that hit the shop floor. But Brown argues that\u2019s hardly the most interesting thing about the company.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t make a sustainable product. Make a great product and make it as sustainable as possible, and look for the competitive advantages where you can do that,\u201d says Brown. With the reality of climate change, Brown believes businesses must be part of the solution by finding better ways to make the things we use. \u201cIf we can put a man on the moon, we can find a way to make a T-shirt more sustainably.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get comfortable with the word \u201cno.\u201d <\/b>Brown attributes the brand\u2019s success to saying no to \u201c97 percent of things\u201d\u201497 percent of opportunities and partnerships and meetings and coffees\u2014so as not to stray from the path he and Zwillinger forged back in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the micro level, that includes setting up boundaries between their work and the rest of their lives. Particularly because both cofounders are new fathers, this has been of utmost importance as Allbirds has scaled. \u201cThere\u2019s always going to be too many things on your to-do list, says Brown. \u201cWork out which ones you should be doing and give it your best shot throughout the week. When it comes to the end of the day on Friday, park it. Try to keep something that\u2019s very, very complicated very, very simple.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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