583 - Randy Hild: A Life Built On Boardshorts

About this episode

Randy Hild discusses his experiences in the surf industry, including the creation of female boardshorts and his insights on surf history.

In today’s show surf biz stalwart Randy Hild details the various false starts at Roxy prior to the inception of their industry-disrupting female boardshort, the tension between scaling and brand authenticity, which parts of the Golden Era were fake and inflated, how a serendipitous Swap Meet discovery led to him becoming an inadvertent surf history archivist, and why 1953 Makaha would be his ultimate time travel destination. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: David Lee Scales

Guest: Randy Hild

Topics covered

• surf business
• boardshorts
• brand authenticity
• surf history
• Golden Era

Keywords

• surf business
• boardshorts
• Roxy
• surf history
• Golden Era
• Makaha
• archivist

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Roxy

Places: Makaha

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