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Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How Much of Your Success Is Attributable to Luck?

The company is still in the cultured a company in great depth, and they're still doing very well. I was lucky to be married to carrol segel, who had this enormous talent. We started out to create something that was going to be different and beautiful and wonderful. Could you ever have imagined, like when you opened up this thing in chicago, in a disused elevator factory, with boards that you hammered into the walls, that this company would be doing sales of what are crane barrels numbers to day, it's about one point two billion a year. And we went from one employ and out of seven thousand. Never, never, ever. We didn't have a plan

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