Bert and john jacobs biography for kids
Bert and john jacobs biography for kids
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The fascinating story of how 2 brothers went from running a failing business out of a van to building a $100 million company
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What are we going to do with our lives?
That's the question Bert and John Jacobs were trying to answer when they decided to take a seven-week road trip from California to Boston in 1988.
The brothers — 20 and 23 at the time — say that the trip forever changed their lives.
John, who has since founded the Life is Good apparel company with his brother, tells Business Insider that it was during the road trip that he and Bert decided to pursue a new — and less traditional — career path: selling T-shirts.
They initially named their company Jacob's Gallery, and tirelessly traveled up and down the East Coast selling shirts to college kids ou