Blake Mycoskie

Blake Mycoskie is the Founder of TOM’s Shoes, Inc. TOM’s is a corporation that was launched in 2006 and attempts to give shoes to children who have none all over the world, based on giving a pair of shoes for every pair of shoes sold. By the end of 2009 TOMS’s has given out over 600,000 pairs of shoes worldwide since the project began.http://www.toms.com/blakes-bio

Blake Mycoskie received the ‘’ACE Award’’ for his ‘’TOM’s program which he started in 2006 as a way to provide shoes to the children in Argentina and then grew the idea to be worldwide. He knew that he wanted to attempt to provide shoes for the children that he had seen walking barefoot and he did not want a charity, so he formed a company that would use the purchase on one shoe to provide one show for a needy child. The business was started the business and according to Mycoskie there was not as much investment capital as there was a passion to help those children.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-mycoskie/toms-shoes-accepts-the-se_b_387780.html

Blake lives on his sailboat in Santa Monica . He has started five companies since his graduation from college. TOM’s has become his focus. On April 8, 2010, Blake asked everyone to go barefoot for “A Day Without Shoes”. This will remind people that there are people all over the world that do not have shoes and must go barefoot on a daily basis.

Blake and his sister, Paige were contestants on The Amazing Race reality show on CBS and were very close to being named the winner. The Amazing Race is where teams race all over the world following clues that pit them against physical challenges as well as other teams. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-mycoskie Blake Mycoskie began his first company while in college by setting up a door-to-door laundry service with other college students. That one idea led to a company that grew to a company with 40 employees and 8 trucks servicing the Southwest. The company called EZ Laundry eventually was sold to his business partner.