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A Stride Around The World

Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Ideas

Sometimes you watch something that just inspires you. It makes you feel good about the world that we live in. It just makes you happy. This video does that:

It was originally the brainchild of a slacker traveler named Matt. In 2003, he was traveling and did silly dance in Asia that his friends caught on tape and posted on YouTube. A couple hundred thousand hits later, he was a quasi-internet celebrity.

Then something even cooler happened. The people at Stride Gum found out about this and gave him enough to money to go around and do it all over again. You know what I love best about that? They didn’t make him wear a Stride Gum t-shirt or dance with packs of gum. They gave him a little bit of money so that he could bring this video to the world. And discovering that Stride was the enabler to that makes me like them even more.

Stride gave this guy what he needed to inspire millions. Inspire people to travel. To see the world. To experience new things. I love it!

- Christian

Inspired by this post on Michael Seaton’s blog.

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