{"id":410889,"date":"2021-04-11T13:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=410889"},"modified":"2021-04-11T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:58:21","slug":"david-hogg-quits-progressive-mypillow-competitor-two-months-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-hogg-quits-progressive-mypillow-competitor-two-months-after-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hogg Quits Progressive MyPillow Competitor Two Months After Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdavid-hogg-quits-progressive-mypillow-competitor-two-months-after-launch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=410889&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/David-Hogg-1024x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gun control activist David Hogg announced on Twitter, late Saturday, that he has exited GoodPillow, a progressive MyPillow competitor he and partner William LeGate launched just two months ago, apparently before the company produced a single product.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg claims to have divested himself of his GoodPillow shares, giving&nbsp; LeGate full ownership over the pillow company, in order to focus more intently on his education and his activism; operating a small business was, it seems, harder than Hogg expected and was getting in the way of more pressing endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Saturday, Hogg thanked his Good Pillow partner William LeGate and said he would focus on his college studies and gun-control activism,\u201d Newsweek reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective immediately, I have resigned and released all shares, any ownership and any control of Good Pillow LLC,\u201d Hogg tweeted. \u201cI want to thank his partnership and wish him absolutely nothing but success with the future of Good Pillow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the next several months, I will be taking some time to focus on my studies in college and advance the gun violence prevention movement with March for Our Lives and personally,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were met with immediate and overwhelming support. But I soon realized that given my activism, schoolwork, and family commitments, I could not give 100% to being a full time co-founder at Good Pillow,\u201d Hogg explained. \u201cAfter many discussions with William and my friends, family and mentors, I made the good faith decision to allow William to bring our vision to life without me. hat vision remains an ethical company that produces products that people need while creating good union paying jobs and supporting social causes at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what \u201cshares\u201d Hogg is referring to as \u201cGoodPillow\u201d appears to be structured as a limited liability company (LLC), which does not issue shares.<\/p>\n<p>As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gun-control-activist-david-hogg-launching-progressive-mypillow-competitor\">The Daily Wire reported in February<\/a>, Hogg intended the company to compete with MyPillow, whose CEO was vocally supportive of former President Donald Trump following his November election loss. Hogg called the effort a \u201cpillow fight \u201d and even went so far as to recruit LeGate as a partner. The pair intended not just to run MyPillow out of business, they said, but to run Fox News out of business, on the theory that MyPillow\u2019s advertising dollars were the only factor keeping the news network on the air.<\/p>\n<p>The endeavor quickly became complicated, though. Progressive \u201ccustomers\u201d made an ever-increasing number of demands on Hogg\u2019s fledgling pillow company, Hogg and his partner failed to trademark \u201cGoodPillow\u201d or procure associated internet real estate, and there was already a progressive competitor to MyPillow on the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the trademark application, \u2018Good pillow\u2019 was being registered for a \u2018custom-built pillow,\u2019 to use the mark in commerce or in connection with identified goods and services,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/meaww.com\/\">&nbsp;news website Meaww reported<\/a>. \u201cThe application is now waiting to be assigned to an examining attorney approximately three months after the filing date, which will take place in May 2021. The image&nbsp;registered with the application does not match the logo on Hogg\u2019s and LeGate\u2019s Good Pillow co&nbsp;website. At the time of reporting, no other applications for the name have been filed under either Hogg\u2019s or LeGate\u2019s name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LeGate ignored much of Hogg\u2019s Twitter stream, saying simply, \u201cIt has been a pleasure working with you, David\u201d and pledging to send Hogg \u201cpillows from the first batch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shipping, LeGate claims, is scheduled to begin in July.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg\u2019s announcement was widely met with mockery, with social media denizens quick to suggest that Hogg had grossly underestimated how difficult it is to start and run a small business \u2014 and making good on bets they\u2019d made when Hogg launched his company that the effort would be short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI too have relinquished my imaginary shares in my imaginary company that makes imaginary pillows,\u201d announced one Twitter user.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire host Michael Knowles said, simply, \u201clol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun control activist David Hogg announced on Twitter, late Saturday, that he has exited GoodPillow, a progressive MyPillow competitor he and partner William LeGate launched just two months ago, apparently &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311996,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/David-Hogg-1024x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"David Hogg Quits Progressive MyPillow Competitor Two Months After Launch","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/David-Hogg-1024x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"David Hogg Quits Progressive MyPillow Competitor Two Months After Launch","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}