The Jess Larsen Show on Innovation & Leadership

How Lululemon's Founder invented a $400 billion industry: Chip Wilson


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Chip’s entrepreneurial and apparel career began on the West Coast in 1979 as Founder & CEO of Westbeach Snowboarding Ltd. After selling Westbeach in 1997, he founded lululemon athletica inc. in 2018, creating an entirely new category of technical apparel now called “athleisure” - a $400 billion global industry. Lululemon went public in 2007, and has a current market cap of approximately $41 billion.


Chip Wilson is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, devoted husband and dedicated father to five sons. He creates possibilities for people to live longer, healthier, more fun lives in his pursuit to elevate the world from mediocrity to greatness.

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