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How two friends from Stanford are building a business around selling dusty adventure gear – and broadening outdoors access in the process

Original post made on Jun 26, 2021

The friendship of two Stanford University undergrads and future business co-founders started off with a series of outdoor misadventures.

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Posted by Falex Eardman
a resident of Atherton: West Atherton
on Jun 26, 2021 at 8:17 am
Falex Eardman is a registered user.

WOW! A superb article. Well written, witty, jovial, etc. Switchbackr seems like the coolest company in the world. Only problem w/ the article is it says at one point, "they went backpacking together, and one of them forgot a sleeping bag." I don't know why—as a hitherto uninformed reader—I think this, but I have a strong conviction it was SASHA who forgot the sleeping bag, not Alex.

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