Iva Pawling and her co-founder Tim Morse saw that moment when Shoes.com offered to buy their San Juan Capistrano-based brand Richer Poorer for $12 million in 2015. What were the circumstances that led you to believe Richer Poorer would do better on its own? While we had no intention of leaving and were still going to be the operators of Richer Poorer, we were selling away any real power we previously had. Once we start seeing Richer Poorer on everyone, everywhere, I will be happy." Bobby Kim, I met when did a collab together between our brands early on in the days of Richer Poorer and we became friends after.

Source: Forbes April 30, 2019 16:37 UTC