Blake Mycoskie is an American entrepreneur who founded TOMS Shoes in 2006 after visiting Argentina and witnessing many children without shoes. He learned that lack of shoes threatened children's health and ability to attend school. This inspired him to create TOMS, which follows a one-for-one model where for each pair of shoes sold, a pair is donated to a child in need. A study in El Salvador found that 95% of children had a favorable impression of the donated shoes and 77% wore them at least 3 days a week. In starting TOMS, Mycoskie faced challenges due to his young age, with people not taking him seriously, and not being able to get bank loans due to

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2.  American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist
 Born on August 26, 1976 in Arlington, Texas
 Founder and chief Shoe Giver of Toms Shoes
 Attended Arlington Martin High School and
graduated from St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, in
1994. Went on to attend Southern Methodist
University on a partial tennis scholarship in 1995, and
elected a dual major in philosophy and business
Blake Mycoskie

3.  Initiated in 2006 after Mycoskie visited Argentina on
vacation
 Met an American woman who was part of a volunteer
organization which provided shoes for children in
need
 Spent several days traveling from village to village
with the group
TOMS shoes

4.  Mycoskie noticed that many of the children were
running around the streets barefooted
 He learnt that the lack of shoes was a problem that
had a serious impact upon the youth- threatening the
ability of the children to go to school and preventing
infection
 This thus inspired the founding of his company, TOMS
shoes
TOMS shoes

5.  In a randomized control trial conducted in El Salvador,
95% of the kids in El Salvador had a favorable
impression of the shoes
 77% of the children wore them at least 3 days per
week, and the most common response by children
was wearing them every day.
Impact of TOMS shoes

6.  Age- due to his young age, some people found it hard
to take Mycoskie seriously and it was also hard for
him to get loans from the bank.
 Inception of the company- they had no experience in
making shoes and they had to learn production,
quality control, inventory and all the other business
parts of being a shoe and fashion company very
quickly.
Challenges faced

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