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> Key people left North Face over a decade ago, and some started Mountain Hardware Mountain Hardware was founded in 1993, per Wikipedia, and purchased by Colum
by hackuser 10y ago
> Key people left North Face over a decade ago, and some started Mountain Hardware
Mountain Hardware was founded in 1993, per Wikipedia, and purchased by Columbia in 2003. Are you thinking of someone else?
- et-al 10y agoOP might be thinking of Sierra Design guys starting up MH. It's a common cycle for these people to jump ship as companies get entrenched and they lose their creative freedom. Same thing happened with backpacks: Dana Gleason of Dana Designs, sold to K2, fulfilled his noncompete, he starts up Mystery Ranch. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Design
- rch 10y agoI'm just old - I forget how long ago some of these conversations took place, but mid-90s sounds right.