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The Business Card in the Drawer

Someone has to preserve what private equity won't

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Nick Engvall
Jun 16, 2026
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I found an old Sole Collector business card at the bottom of a drawer a last week.

The kind with a logo that felt important when you handed it to someone at a sneaker event. The kind of artifact that makes you stop and just sit with it for a minute. It’s from around 2009 or 2010 I think, which puts it right in the middle of when Sole Collector was doing …

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