Purpose In The Youth

Parker Burr is the Co-Founder of FEAT. What started as him and his partner Taylor Offer standing outside of their college cafeteria selling socks to students as they walked by evolved into something much bigger. In 2017, they were picked for Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Retail & Ecommerce space. Born & raised in Simsbury, CT, one of his early passions was Lacrosse. With the entrepreneurial mindset he had learned from watching his father run a successful landscaping company, he started buying and reselling hats he made at the mall. Fast forward he goes off to college at UMass Amherst and continues to build his company Promo Lacrosse. By his Junior year, the company had done 1.2 Million dollars in sales. During his Senior year he meets Taylor and they run with this idea of starting a sock company. That year they sell 20,000 pairs out of their backpacks to students on the campus. They graduate and get funded $250k from an angel investor and another $27k from Kickstarter. After they spend every dollar tryin