Container Stores Kip Tindell

Published: Feb. 25, 2015, 6:31 p.m.

b'With Kip Tindell, Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Container Store; Author -\\xa0Uncontainable: How Passion, Commitment and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone Thrives



Kip Tindell has built the Container Store from scratch \\u2013 from $35,000 and a small 1,600 sf retail store focused on helping people organize their lives through better storage solutions to a publicly-traded company with 69 stores across 25 states and annual sales of about $750 million.

In 2014, the Container Store was named #28 on Fortune\\u2019s 100 Best Companies to Work ForList for the 15th\\xa0year in a row, for its values-based approach to business and conscious capitalism \\u2013 that focuses on making sure every stakeholder in the business ecosystem thrives. Kip walks us through his journey, his operating philosophy, his hiring philosophy and what he did differently to make his entrepreneurial venture succeed, with some of the happiest, best-paid employees in the retail business.'