This was a great interview. Learned alot about Ecko and his path to giving back. Love it, from one NJ native to another.
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Phenomenal efforts! Thank you for bringing us this platform. NJ stands tall with this one! ❤️🔥
2 years ago | 1
Hell of a guy…and creator I worked in his retail store when he started me cut n sew his bison is outta this world and the shit he does is crazy congrats on the success and keep going
2 years ago | 1
Aye bro you’re doing things I LOVE UR CONTENT it’s so refreshing in the media industry fr <333
2 years ago | 0
Ima watch I grew up loving ecko! he was apart of me learning about Graff culture
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We NEED getting up remastered or even just available for download on new gen. Definitely in my top3 of ps2 games! Big respect to you both and come on Ecko! Make them do that remaster haha 🦏
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IDEA GENERATION
From his parents garage in Lakewood, NJ, armed with nothing but an airbrush compressor and a head full of ideas and angst, Marc Eckō grew a custom t-shirt business into a global brand: ECKŌ UNLTD. And then he built and acquired G-Unit, Zoo York, Avirex, Cut-N-Sew and ECKŌ Red. And because that wasn’t ambitious enough, he also broke into gaming with the million-seller ‘Getting Up’, and disrupted publishing with COMPLEX.
Which is right around when I first met him. Standing at adjacent urinals in the Men’s Bathroom at COMPLEX. It was my second day and Marc happened to pull up next to me. Despite having 500+ employees at that point, Marc, being the generous gentleman that he is, introduced himself with an elbow bump and welcomed me to the team. I tried to answer as I stared straight ahead harder than I’ve ever stared. Thankfully, our relationship would get a lot less awkward from there, lol, and a year later, at the behest of Rich Antoniello, he and Rich would promote me to EiC.
And from that perch I got to witness ECKŌ achieve its peak, and, as marketplace pressures collided with internal tensions and The Great Recession, also its unraveling. TBH, it was brutal. But where most would’ve folded, Marc just piloted as graceful an emergency landing as possible, extricated himself, and took COMPLEX.
From the trenches alongside Rich, Mok, myself + the PLEX team, Marc helped us scale—creating + leading COMPLEXCon, among other initiatives—from a bimonthly mag to a multifaceted entertainment company to an eventual 9-figure acquisition.
And then, having done the impossible, and done it twice, Marc channeled his endless curiosity into reforming our national education system at the NGO’s XQ and The Emerson Collective. And he’s just getting started!
So yeah, there’s no way for me to articulate how much I admire Marc—as a creative, as an entrepreneur, and, most importantly, as a man. Or how grateful I am to him for the role he’s played in my life. So please consider this episode of IDEA GENERATION my effort to express all of that, and to gift our audience with Marc’s candor, conviction and clarity of vision. Episode out now!
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