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The Person Who Pulls The Rope

A conversation with footwear industry veteran, Rick Maderis.

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Nick Engvall
Sep 27, 2026
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Rick Maderis and I played phone tag for close to a year.

That isn’t a complaint. It’s what happens when two people are both building something on the side of something else. When we finally sat down for the Sneaker History podcast, it was worth every missed call.

If you don’t know Rick’s name, that’s part of the story. He spent more than twenty years insi…

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