Michelin Guide
product on 14 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 140 times in 58 episodes since 2017
How I Built This 49 
Founders 32 
My First Million 15 
the Knowledge Project 13 
All-In 6 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 4 
the a16z Podcast 4 
20VC 4 
Founder's Journal 3 
BigDeal 3 
Capital Allocators 3 
TBPN 2 
Innovators & Investors 1 
Sourcery 1
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How I Built This 49Founders 32My First Million 15the Knowledge Project 13All-In 6the a16z Podcast 420VC 4the Startup Ideas Podcast 46 more shows
2026 14 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
- Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
- How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
- ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- Will Guidara – Unreasonable Hospitality (EP.492)
- The Most Important Career Advice You'll Ever Hear (In The AI Era) | Bill Gurley
- How To Run Down A Dream
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 53 mentions in 15 episodes 4 per episode
- The Greatest Marketer of All Time and The Cofounder of the Michelin Family Dynasty Andre Michel
- Exclusive Update: The Chef Who Shocked the Culinary World and Why He’s Changing Course Again—Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park
- Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage
- The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups
- Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 13 mentions in 10 episodes 1 per episode
- Build a high traffic startup using AI, Webflow and Zapier
- How to Build a $10M+ Online Empire (feat. Joshua Weissman)
- Advice Line with Mark Ramadan of Sir Kensington's
- Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- 4 profitable startups from the founder of exploding topics
- The Cronut and Dominique Ansel Bakery: Dominique Ansel
- Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Chef and Restaurateur: Thomas Keller
- Introducing Storyarb, My Content Agency + A Temperature Check
- Raelan Lambert, John Jackson, and Erik Sebusch – Inside Mercer Consulting (EP.345)
- Freshpet: Scott Morris
- How Holdco Legend Michael Girdley is Playing Multi-Decade Games (and Winning)
- Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
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2022 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2021 24 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- Eleven Madison Park: Daniel Humm
- Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny
- Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Metaverse, Gaingels, Companies that Don't Advertise, and More
- Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- 20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
- E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- A Breakdown of Trendy New Businesses & Boring 9 Figure Businesses | My First Million #202
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2019 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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6 statements about Michelin Guide, every show
Eleven Madison Park is the first plant-based restaurant awarded three stars
“There's never been a restaurant. That received three Michelin stars with a plant-based cuisine.”
André Michelin's Travel Guide Drastically Expanded the Market for Tires
“And so when I say Andre may be the greatest marketer of all time, he's the inventor of the Michelin guide, which leads to the Michelin restaurant stars, maybe the most successful guide in history, drastically expands the market for their product.”
Ansel: Three Michelin stars are hard to earn but harder to keep
“That's the first thing you say, say that three Michelin star, it's hard to earn. Three Michelin star is like much harder to keep.”
Keller was the first American chef with two three-star Michelin restaurants
“You became the first American chef and one of the very few chefs in the world to have two Michelin three-star restaurants”
Burgis: Opting out of prestige games is easier after reaching the top
“I would say that It was easier for him to opt out than it is for most of us to opt out of unhealthy systems of desire that we might be caught in. And I think it was easier for him, actually. I don't think that his, he didn't have the loss version that we had b…”
Wilkinson: Chef Sébastien Bras asked Michelin to remove his stars
“This guy, Sebastian Brass, did that. All he wanted was to get a Michelin star, and he got it. And when he got it didn't actually make him happier, he just wanted a second star. Then he got a second star. Well, it didn't make him happy either. And he just lived…”