Zac Park

Zach Parr: the Kickstarter whisperer who built Cubcoats

Zach Parr was a hired-gun who ran other people's Kickstarters to multi-million-dollar results, then launched his own: Jacket Pets (now Cubcoats), a stuffed animal that unzips into a kid's jacket. He crushed Kickstarter, then layered on licensing deals with sports leagues and Disney/Marvel plus retail and online.

“And so Jacket Pets was, uh, take a stuffed animal, kids don't want to leave it behind, and so like, let's put a zipper in the back, and then when you unzip the stuffed animal, you can like turn it inside out, like press it inside out, and it'll turn into a kid's jacket.”