Jake Nickell on Monetizing Art and His Favorite Threadless Tee

NGL sat down with Threadless Founder and CEO Jake Nickell to talk about their company’s mission to help support artists. Then, another Jake comes on to reflect on the end of ‘Avengers,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ and his time at Duke

Nathan Graber-Lipperman
UNPLUGG'D MAG
2 min readMay 25, 2019

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(Photo by Andrew Fenichel / Photo Illustration by Nathan Graber-Lipperman)

On ‘The G-L Review,’ Nathan Graber-Lipperman brings on athletes, entrepreneurs, rappers and more to talk about how culture influences business and the ever-changing media industry. You can subscribe and listen to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and all of your favorite podcast streaming platforms!

On the latest episode of ‘The G-L Review,’ NGL recaps everything that’s going on with PBM before diving into a conversation with Threadless Founder and CEO Jake Nickell. They talked about his personal favorite shirt Threadless has produced (10:09), his idea that it’s a “human necessity” to make things (26:20), and how his passion for helping artists support themselves keeps him — and Threadless — going (41:37). Then, Nate finished it off with his big bro and recent Duke graduate, Jake, to talk about ‘The Endgame,’ as ‘Avengers,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ and his college career all recently drew to a close (48:07).

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