# Curtis Matsko

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Portland Leather Goods Story

In this Commerce Roundtable San Diego session, Curtis Matsko (CEO) and MacCoy Merkley (CMO) of Portland Leather Goods share how they turned a small garage project in Portland, Oregon into a $200 million brand built on vision, creativity, and resilience. They reveal how clear leadership, authentic s…

How a Self-Funded Brand Grew from $3.5M to $200M in 7 Years

Defying the typical DTC playbook of heavy fundraising and trend chasing, this leather goods brand bootstrapped from a one-car garage in 2015 to a projected $200M in annual revenue by 2025, fueled by a 93% compound annual growth rate and no outside capital. Portland Leather Goods, operating in the p…

Curtis Matsko's $175M Leather Empire Was Planned One Day At A Time

Curtis Matsko is the founder and CEO of Portland Leather Goods, a 9-figure ecommerce monster. Follow him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-matsko/ and on X at https://x.com/CurtisMatsko. FOLLOW UP WITH ANDREW X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/andrewjfaris Email: podcast@ajfgrowt…

Billions in Ecommerce Deals & How to Build a Brand Worth Buying

Special episode on what billions in recent ecommerce exits, raises, and M&A mean for your brand.  Curtis Matsko (CEO, Portland Leather Goods) joins hosts Matt Bertulli (CEO, Pela Case & Lomi) and Mike Beckham (CEO, Simple Modern) to dig into the wave of consumer deals. They debate whether strategic…

How Ecommerce Brands Can Fund Growth: Winning DTC Math

What happens when your bank promises you $20 million, strings you along for a year, and then rips it all away the same week you need it most?   Sean Frank (CEO, Ridge) and Matt Bertulli (CEO, Pela Case & Lomi) sit down with Curtis Matsko (CEO, Portland Leather Goods) for a raw conversation about ho…

New Product Launch Playbook Behind 9-Figure Ecommerce Brands

“Marketing’s job gets a lot easier when they have new products to sell.” Curtis Matsko (CEO, Portland Leather Goods) and Katy Mimari (CEO, Caden Lane) join Matt Bertulli (CEO, Pela Case and Lomi) to tackle one of our most requested topics. How to create and launch new ecommerce products. Each hos…

Ecommerce Founder’s Guide to Owning Your Manufacturing & Factory

Could one bad supplier decision bring your entire ecommerce brand down? Curtis Matsko (CEO, Portland Leather Goods) joins hosts Matt Bertulli (CEO, Pela Case & Lomi) and Mike Beckham (CEO, Simple Modern) to pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood decisions in consumer goods: vertica…

How to Hire the 5 Ecommerce Roles That Will Make or Break Your Brand

“The right person does nothing but print money.”  Sean Frank, Matt Bertulli, Curtis Matsko, and Katy Mimari get into a heated debate on the hardest roles to hire in ecommerce. Nobody agrees. And that’s exactly the point.  The conversation tears through five make-or-break positions: (1) head of prod…

Opening Retail Stores vs. Going Wholesale: What the Numbers Say

Should you open your own stores, or let the big retailers do the heavy lifting?  Curtis Matsko (CEO, Portland Leather Goods), Matt Bertulli (CEO, Pela Case & Lomi), and Mike Beckham (CEO, Simple Modern) go head to head on one of the biggest channel decisions a consumer brand will face.  Curtis went…

Learning From Failure: 3 $100M+ Operators & Their Darkest Moments

“We were not going to make payroll next week.”  How did three ecommerce CEOs turn rock bottom into their biggest lesson?  Matt Bertulli (CEO, Pela Case & Lomi), Mike Beckham (CEO, Simple Modern), and Curtis Matsko (CEO, Portland Leather Goods) each share the darkest moment of their ecommerce career…