Ep199 – Jaimie Fuller (Former CEO & Chairman – SKINS) on building SKINS and bouncing back from bankruptcy

The Startup Playbook PodcastInsights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Ep199 – Jaimie Fuller (Former CEO & Chairman – SKINS) on building SKINS and bouncing back from bankruptcy October 31, 2024 rohitbhargava Podcast My guest for Ep199 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Jaimie Fuller. Jaimie’s journey has been full of highs and lows. He is best known as the former CEO and Executive Chairman of compression apparel company SKINS. SKINS was a global phenomenon with elite athletes and sporting teams all around the world using their products. The business had incredible global growth before ultimately filing for bankruptcy in 2019. Outside of his work with SKINS, Jaimie was also an activist within sports, through #ChooseTheRightTrack tackling doping in sports and #NewFIFANow to call out corruption in football leading to a number of arrests in FIFA in 2015. Jaimie is now back with his latest company, eo, which is helps accelerate human progress through innovative sports technology. In this episode we covered a range of topics including: The ups and downs of the SKINS journey How he personally dealt with the fallout from filing for bankruptcy How SKINS was able to use brand to build a premium offering and compete with the likes of Nike all over the world The vision and mission behind eo and much more! Timestamps: 1:49 Jaimie’s background 3:33 His first printing business 7:25 The challenges of growing at a rapid pace beyond 250 employees 13:49 Doing the right thing in business 26:10 The founding journey of SKINS 32:56 What gave him the conviction to go all in on SKINS 42:53 Importance of brand and storytelling 52:01 Maintaining a challenger brand ethos as you scale 1:05:32 replacing himself as CEO 1:08:01 Filing for bankruptcy 1:21:13 The decision to start again with eo 1:26:15 The mission of eo Our partners: A big thank you to Dean Hawkins and Anthony Gregorio for their help with this interview! Also a big shout out to our partners for the show: Scendar  Scendar is the OG startup accounting firm in Australia catering to all stages of your business’ life. If you’re busy running your startup, you don’t have time to do your own books and forecast. 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Links mentioned: Jaimie’s links: Jaimie’s LinkedIn Eo Lab’s website Eo Lab’s Instagram People mentioned: Rupert Murdoch Dean Hawkins Bradley Duffy Mike Stone Graham Arnold Cristiano Ronaldo Lionel Messi Anthony Gregorio Steve Waugh Robert Louis-Dreyfus Julia Louis-Dreyfus Companies mentioned: SKINS Essendon Football Club Nike Adidas Puma Eatbigfish NSWIS UBS Amazon International Athletics Federation Sport 2000 Feedback/connect/say hello: [email protected]@RohitBhargava7 (Twitter)/rohbhargava (LinkedIn)@rohit_bhargava (Instagram)My Youtube Channel Credits: Music: Paycheck Other channels: Find all of the links for the podcast on Linktree here https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/startupplaybook/Ep199_-_Jaimie_Fuller.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 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