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New York Times: Patagonia Changed the Apparel Business. Can It Change Food, Too?

New York Times: Patagonia’s Big Bet on a Modest Grain

New York Times DealBook: The Irony of Corporate America’s Many Patagonia Vests

Wall Street Journal CEO Brief: Patagonia Founder's Pursuit of Purpose Over Profit

CNBC Squawk Box: 'Dirtbag billionaire': Inside Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard's life as a 'reluctant capitalist'

Financial Times: FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the longlist

Washington Post: How the founder of Patagonia turned corporate culture upside down

Fortune: How Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard decided to give away his billions

Inc.: Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Never Wanted to Be a Billionaire—So He Did Something About It 

Fast Company: From a Pentagon partnership to a formaldehyde mishap: 3 things you probably don’t know about Patagonia

Semafor: CEO Signal

Katie Couric: How the Founder of Patagonia Gave His Money Away with David Gelles

USA Today: The 'dirtbag' who built Patagonia—and gave it away

Forbes: How Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard decided to give away his billions

TIME: The Origins of Patagonia’s Conservationism

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: The One Feat of Leadership Patagonia's Founder Couldn’t Pull Off

The.Ink with Anand Giriharadas: Is this “dirtbag billionaire” the exception that proves the rule?

Chronicle of Philanthropy: Patagonia’s ‘Dirtbag’ Billionaire Is Out to Transform Philanthropy

Slate Money: The Paradoxes of Patagonia

Ralph Nader Radio Hour: Dirtbag Billionaire

Next Big Idea Club: The Dirtbag Billionaire Who Gave It All Away

The Information: Tesla Hastens the Era of the Trillionaire

Kyle Westaway: Weekend Briefing No. 605

Los Angeles Times: 10 books to read in September

Leadership Matters: Journalist and Author David Gelles

The Brian Lehrer Show: Developing Nations Face Climate Change

Regenerative Insights: The Paradoxes of Patagonia — and Future Pathways of Responsible Business

Publisher’s Weekly: review

Library Journal: review

Gear Patrol: review

WWD: Fall 2025’s Most Exciting Book Releases

Alta: 14 New Books for September

Town & Country: The 49 Must-Read Books of Fall 2025

What’s the Big Idea: Why Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away

The Elevate Podcast: Dirtbag Billionaire Author David Gelles On Chronicling Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, Jack Welch’s Leadership And More

The Eric Ries Show: From Blacksmith to Billionaire: The Making of Patagonia’s Ethos

Brad Wieners: 5 Things I Didn't Know About Our Founder Yvon Chouinard

The Unknowns: Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia's Dirtbag Billionaire

Liz Plank: do good billionaires exist?

Susan Demas: The oligarchs devouring democracy

Yahoo Finance: Why this author calls the Patagonia founder the 'Dirtbag Billionaire'

ABC Late Night Live: The Patagonia story: how to make a fortune and give it all away

The Times: Giving a firm to its staff is more wholesome than the alternative
Huckberry: Yvon Chouinard's Biographer on Five Ways the Dirtbag Billionaire Kept It Simple and Real