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$0.5 Dumpster Diver Goes a Billion Dollar

$0.5 Dumpster Diver Goes a Billion Dollar

What we can learn from Yvon Chouinard.

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Antoine Van Aerde
Jan 07, 2023
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Yvon Chouinard, born in 1938—Lisbon, Maine. Little did he know the future awaiting. Growing up in a French-Canadian community, with poor English, he saw no other fate than working the mill just like his father.

His environment however was about to change. Eight-year-old Yvon moves to Burbank, California. A new home that poses cultural change, language b…

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