{"id":7383,"date":"2009-04-14T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T01:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2009-04-15T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T02:33:19","slug":"yvon-chouinard-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7383","title":{"rendered":"Yvon Chouinard In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/616078339-1jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/616078339-1jpg.jpeg','popup','width=470,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/616078339-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"127\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"616078339-1.Jpg\" \/><\/a>Much has been written about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patagonia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patagonia&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Yvon Chouinard<\/strong>, but when he was in Australia for the opening of a Patagonia store in Torquay (opened in partnership with surf legend <strong>Wayne Lynch<\/strong>) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smallbusiness.smh.com.au\/growing\/sales\/can-surfing-save-the-world-this-man-thinks-so-616038474.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Saturday Editor <strong>Michael Gordon<\/strong> got to check in with the businessman that Gordon calls a contrarian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The contrarian streak is evident soon after our conversation begins, overlooking the surf at Torquay. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like authority and I always wanted to do it my way,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I wanted to have a company where I could do things differently and not end up like a grease-ball businessman.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always thought Patagonia was a little too cool to be cool, but this profile on the man behind the brand made us like their whole groove a little more than we did before reading it. And that surprised us a little.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smallbusiness.smh.com.au\/growing\/sales\/can-surfing-save-the-world-this-man-thinks-so-616038474.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written about Patagonia&#8217;s Yvon Chouinard, but when he was in Australia for the opening of a Patagonia store in Torquay (opened in partnership with surf legend Wayne Lynch) The Age&#8217;s Saturday Editor Michael Gordon got to check in with the businessman that Gordon calls a contrarian. The contrarian streak is evident soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}