To Fit Into Silicon Valley, Wear These Wool Shoes<br />Guests wore other shoes — New Balance, Top-Siders, Tevas and a rare dress shoe were spotted —<br />but the furry-looking Allbird was by far the most common.<br />With a research grant from New Zealand’s wool industry, Mr. Brown began a Kickstarter campaign to make wool shoes in 2014.<br />Founded by a New Zealand soccer star and a clean-technology entrepreneur, Allbirds makes the sneakerlike shoes from wool and castor bean oil.<br />“We’re about the distillation of solutions, the refinement<br />and crafting of forms in a maniacal way,” said Tim Brown, the Allbirds co-founder from New Zealand.
