# Leading Patagonia & Monograph’s Capital Mission w/ Charles Conn

Episodio de [GomzTalkz](https://escuchario.semeescucha.es/podcast/gomztalkz), de Sebastian Gomez.

- Publicado: 8 de enero de 2026
- Duración: 51 min
- Temporada 6, episodio 1
- Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/2190d2e4/podcast/play/113607044/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-7%2F415666090-44100-2-1b5c3f1ad5bbe.mp3
- Página: https://escuchario.semeescucha.es/podcast/gomztalkz/episodio/8851082-leading-patagonia-monographs-capital-mission-w-charles-conn

## Sobre este episodio

The visionary Chairman of Patagonia and co-founder of Monograph Capital. Charles shares his remarkable journey from orchestrating the groundbreaking Ticketmaster-CitySearch merger as CEO to championing environmental conservation alongside Intel founder Gordon Moore. With an elite education spanning Boston University, Oxford, and Harvard, Charles has built a career that seamlessly blends profit with purpose. At Patagonia, Charles upholds the company's unwavering mission to "save the home planet," working closely with founder Yvon Chouinard to embed sustainability into every business decision. His leadership philosophy centers on empowering teams, fostering curiosity, and treating failures as essential learning opportunities. Now at Monograph Capital, he's channeling these principles into biomedicine investments, reviewing thousands of companies annually to select only those with transformative potential and minimal negative externalities. Throughout our conversation, Charles reveals the art of successful mergers, the danger of over-relying on AI for creative thinking, and why the best leaders hire people better than themselves. From his early days learning humility at supermarkets to advising global conservation efforts, his story exemplifies how curiosity and systems thinking can drive both business success and positive global impact. His books "Bulletproof Problem Solving" and "The Imperfectionists" have become essential reading for leaders navigating complexity in management. This episode is dedicated to discover what it means to lead with purpose in the 21st century. Management techniques for every executive and young founders, but also how to align your life with your purpose and create something amazing out of it.

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