A rock climber who founded the outdoor clothing brand Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard has given the company away after nearly 50 years at the helm. And the beneficiary isn’t family — his wife and two adult ...
“Life is a lot easier if you break the rules,” says Yvon Chouinard, the founder and CEO of Patagonia. He recalls how his days of being a “juvenile delinquent,” catching fish in the LA River and ...
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, 87, has a life update: He’s been “working harder than an 87-year-old should.” However, as detailed in the company’s latest Work in Progress Report, which details ...
Stephanie Mehta: What was your initial reaction when you heard the news that the Chouinard family was going to give up ownership of Patagonia through this unique structure designed to preserve its ...
American businessman Yvon Chouinard, the founder of billionaire fashion brand Patagonia, is giving away his entire company to a charity to fight climate change. The 83-year-old philanthropist ...
On the eve of its 50th anniversary, Patagonia, one of the nation’s most innovative and ethical corporations, is under new ownership. The outdoor apparel maker, founded in 1973 by Yvon Chouinard and ...
Yvon Chouinard — inventor of fleece jackets, the aluminum climbing nut, the layered clothing system universally adopted by outdoor athletes (and everyday people now, too) and whose name is synonymous ...
There are lots of hissable billionaires these days. Some of them keep going to space because they’re not sure what to do with the purely abstract amount of money they have. But not all billionaires ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At Tuesday’s New York City premiere of Nat Geo’s documentary “Wild Life,” Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, shed light on his ...
Since devoting nearly all of its profits to climate and nature in late 2022, the company has given away an extra $180 million. Looking back at some of the best (and worst) business moves of 2022 From ...
Fly-fishing aficionado and Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard leads a class of brand-new fly-fishermen (and women) in how to cast with the company’s Tenkara rod. I was 20 minutes late. Los Angeles ...