Hey acquired listeners, we have some fun news for you.
Following hot on the news that we are doing a freaking arena show.
Arena show.
At Climate Pledge arena in Seattle.
We are here tonight to announce the very first guest that will be joining us for that show, Ben.
Who is it?
It is fresh off his full page profile in the New York Times this weekend.
Jim Weber, the CEO of Brooks Running.
We wanted to have a really fun local seatt success story but I think most people have no idea the magnitude of the success story here or Jim's personal story.
It's just fascinating.
We want everything we do for this event to literally check all the acquired boxes.
This checks all the acquired boxes.
Berkshire Hathaway.
Berkshire Hathaway.
People who don't know.
Brooks Running is a very successful now standalone division of Berkshire Hathaway.
Local Seattle story.
Amazing, amazing journey.
What they went from under Jim.
They went from like de minimis small number of millions of revenue to over a billion in revenue a year competing with Nike and Adidas.