Don Brown | The Nine Club - Episode 337Don Brown discusses being at Sole Tech for 33 years, Pierre-André started Etnies in the late 1980s, Sole Tech helped make the first DC Shoes, Nike's strategic plan to take over the skate shoe market, the Sole Tech sale to The Nidecker group, companies now a days have F.O.G.O.B. fear of going out of business, being diagnosed with prostate cancer, getting sober and much more! #TheNineClub #DonBrown #éSFootwear Become a member of the channel & receive special perks https://www.youtube.com/TheNineClub/join Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://drinkag1.com/nineclub LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/nineclub Skullcandy: https://www.skullcandy.com Woodward: https://www.worldofwoodward.com Check out all of our deals & discounts https://thenineclub.com/pages/deals-and-discounts Subscribe to our other channels More Nine Club: https://www.youtube.com/morenineclub Nine Club Clips: https://www.youtube.com/nineclubclips Chris Roberts: https://www.youtube.com/chrisroberts Join The Nine Club discord https://discord.gg/thenineclub Listen to The Nine Club on podcast https://thenineclub.com/pages/podcast Official Nine Club merch https://thenineclub.com/collections/all Social & Website Website: https://thenineclub.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenineclub TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thenineclub X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thenineclub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenineclub Chris Roberts: https://linktr.ee/Chrisroberts Links we talked about in this episode Switchflip Switch Manny: https://youtu.be/EejsdKHgwsU I'm Glad I'm Not Me: https://www.youtube.com/@chrisroberts Down Brown's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/don_brown Timestamps 00:00:00 Don Brown 00:01:22 intro 00:02:30 Been at Sole Tech for 33 years. Recently sold to Nidecker Group 00:06:35 Skating blowing up in the 1980s 00:07:08 Seeing the 10-year cycle 00:09:52 Pierre-Andr