In a promo video, Millburn says that after traveling the world for nearly a decade with Nicodemus their oversized suitcases were weighing them down and they had tried just about every kind of bag imaginable. Later they got word of the Pakt bag through Colin Wright, another well-known minimalist who lives out of just a couple of bags and travels to a different country every few months.
Millburn and Nicodemus managed to score two of the limited run of 300 bags at the time, but after Netflix published "Minimalism," Millburn said he started getting messages asking him where he got the bag. That led to the Indiegogo campaign with Fontier. As of early January 2018, the trio had raised over $1.1 million.