TOMS Shoes

Here is a picture of Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe with Blake Mycoskie, of TOMS Shoes. The Prime Minister took the time to thank him for the investment brought to the country

Blake Mycoskie makes World a Better Place

Blake Mycoskie has started three companies: TOMS Shoes, Eyewear, and Roasting Company. Each targets in-need communities. Profits raised by sales of shoes goes to children with no shoes (35 million so far); coffee sales deliver clean water to communities; eyewear sales purchase glasses for people without them.

Mycoskie's 2011 book, Start Something That Matters, went to #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, and he was listed in Fortune Magazine's "40 Under 40" list.

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