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Podcast: The Art and War Podcast
Episode: 131: KommandoStore - Who is ‘Ivan’?
Description: After 11 years of anonymity while running KommandoStore, founders Basil and Ashur join Nathan and B.R to give the origin story behind /K/’s favorite internet surplus store. The lads get into starting out buying surplus USMC backpacks from a government auction in high school, selling them out of Basil’s childhood basement and how 4Chan and the ’S.T.A.L.K.E.R Challenge’ created the basis for their first customer base.
The guys also get into how they came to work with Arktis, learning that the Crye Precision Legal department are actually...