Organisations/Companies we Admire

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

we need a comprehensive list of all the organisations & companies we admire and why. until we have a better way of collecting the list, please leave comments in this thread. thanks!

Patagonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonia_(clothing) and https://www.youtube.com/user/patagoniavideo specifically https://youtu.be/A4DH5cK37Y8 they are "fighting the good fight"
IDEO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEO is the widely regarded as the most creative/innovative company in the world. When other companies run out of ideas or have a tough challenge to solve, they call in IDEO. We've read all their books, follow them on instagram and would take an un-paid internship there in a heartbeat just to get inside the action! 😍
Pixar. for their incredible creativity and story telling. not their selling out to Disneylies.
Google. for their innovation and "good parts" not the tracking and selling data to advertisers!
Ghost: using technology to make publishing better. also hyper transparency. https://ghost.org/about/
Gore Associates: see: https://www.gore.com/about described in detail in https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Matters-Now-Competition-Unstoppable/dp/1118120825

@iteles I cannot find our list of companies we admire (and/or want to work with) and learn from ... please feel free to close this issue and link to the "original" if you know where it is!

SimonLab commented 7 years ago

I've just listen to this podcast which talks about Yvon Chouinard and how he started Patagonia, good to listen.

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

@SimonLab that is easily the best episode of How I Built This podcast! I freakin' ❤️ Patagonia! I think we should add a link to the start-here which recommends people to listen to it ... what do you think?

See: https://twitter.com/nelsonic/status/810999222065655808

Jbarget commented 7 years ago

KeepCup - solving a great problem of 'throw-away' culture with coffee/tea cups

"KeepCups mission is to encourage the use of reusable cups. We do this by delivering sustainably made products that are fit for purpose in the context of a positive global campaign that strives to make a difference to how we think about convenience culture."

They also have a dedicated part of their website for Reuse HQ ❤️

theres also this but haven't read their data policy - http://reusehq.keepcup.com/organisations-info

ghost commented 7 years ago

@nelsonic should we put this in an md file?

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

@markwilliamfirth yes, please do. 🎉

dwyl / hq

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