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At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

I'm obsessed with jackets.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.