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Osprey Packs: Mike Pfotenhauer

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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Is It a COVID?

I have to imagine that at many points certainly maybe in the last 10 years you had people maybe approaching you to see if you would sell and eventually you did. You were sold I think in 2021 to a company called Hell in a Troy they acquired Osprey for a little over $400 million. But also I wanted to find an owner that would have similar thinking to what I have where I felt that people were the key of the business. And we talked to I think maybe 35 different companies it was a very difficult time because COVID was going on. In fact at the most intense part of negotiation our factories were shut down because of COVID. In Vietnam. It's true that my

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