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I've worked with Blake a lot, my company developed their current e-commerce site. He's a great, passionate and fun guy. One of my favorite stories about him is when we were asking how he gets thousands of pairs of shoes through customs in Africa. All he said was "Oh, Bill Clinton helps me take care of that." That in itself can tell you how powerful his socially conscious business model is.

He's the kind of guy that would fit in perfectly at HN, he's not technical but he's extremely entrepreneurial. He had a variety of small successes, some failures, and finally hit it big with TOMS Shoes.