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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Nirvana comes up on How I Built This, Another Podcast, Capital Allocators, 20VC, In Depth
AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
- ▶ 24:51 Mikhail Parakhin And then there was Nirvana, which, uh, at Yandex, which did kind of second take on this.
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 23:50 Bret Taylor I would have my Nirvana shirt on.
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 41:12 unnamed speaker That's what Nirvana did.
Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
How does OpenAI compete?
- ▶ 18:57 Benedict Evans It's the land of Nirvana.
20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf
- ▶ 21:32 Gérald Marolf Now does whoever is still alive from Nirvana worry about that they're a t-shirt brand or a band?
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 1:02:20 Anish Acharya So I did a little remix of, uh, Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit, and I generated all the video in V, uh, VO three.
James Clarke – Building Enduring Partnerships at Blue Owl (EP.445)
- ▶ 5:59 James Clark You had Navani.
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- ▶ 50:07 Adam Guild He's like, oh, I was the owner of Nirvana.
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:15 Vlad Tenev She loved Nirvana and Soundgarden.
Episode 731 | How to Delegate as a Perfectionist, SaaS Partnershi...
- ▶ 41:02 Rob Walling If you remember the track Endless Nameless from Nirvana's Nevermind, that's what you're about to hear.
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 1:33:59 Chamath Palihapitiya My God, I think we finished in just enough time to get you back to your Nirvana concert.
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 29:17 Benedict Evans You know, it's like the framed stub to Woodstock on the boomers wall, you know, framed ticket stub to Woodstock, you know, or the first, the first Beatles LP, or, you know, yes, I was at, you know, I was at the Nirvana's first concert in… 2 times in the scene
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
- ▶ 45:24 Sandy Lerner Because A, it was a really good product, and B, I think it was good timing because, you know, you're talking about the mid-nineties, you know, you're talking about Nirvana and, you know, the grunge wave
Sub Pop Records: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman
- ▶ 0:30 Bruce Pavitt And for 20 cents worth of copies, we were able to get a contract with Nirvana that is essentially the reason why we're talking to you today.
- ▶ 1:55 Guy Raz Seattle bands like Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and of course Nirvana seemed to own the rock and roll airwaves between 1990 and 1995.
- ▶ 31:53 Bruce Pavitt And then we have to add, coincidentally, a group named Nirvana, uh, came up and, uh, played a showcase for John and I a little bit after we opened, uh, the offices as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:20 Guy Raz You know, the, the, the former members of Nirvana said, I love the grunge sound.
- ▶ 38:27 Guy Raz All right, so at some point, you get this demo from a band named Nirvana. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:35 Guy Raz So I'm assuming they let you know when they were coming back to play live, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:58 Guy Raz How did you convince Nirvana to work with you? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:05 Guy Raz So a couple of months before you release Nirvana's debut album, which is Bleach, which we'll talk about in a minute, I read that, uh, it was kind of hard, I guess, at the time to get mainstream attention from the U.S. music press, like…
- ▶ 50:47 Guy Raz All right, so, so I think of the summer of 89, you released Nirvana's debut album, Bleach. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:33 Guy Raz I, I want to, this is sensitive, a sensitive topic, because of course Nirvana is a legendary band, and they changed rock history, and I'm sure this is painful even to recall and recount this story, but I do want to ask you about this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:11 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, life after Nirvana, and how Bruce and Jonathan's relationship started to fall apart.
- ▶ 57:54 Guy Raz Nirvana has signed with another label. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:45 Guy Raz oh yeah, Soundgarden and Nirvana and Pearl Jam, they're sellouts?
- ▶ 1:08:04 Bruce Pavitt And yes, the Nirvana money helped out quite a bit, but we had built up our staff, and we were competing with majors, and we, I thought it would be a good idea to have more cash in the bank.
- ▶ 1:15:23 Jonathan Poneman Well, there were bands who, before Nirvana had their explosive success, we would have signed for 2000 dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:42 Bruce Pavitt So, on the one hand, we were very lucky that Nirvana blew up, but I also have to hand it to John and I for sticking it through at that point and keeping the lights on
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
Live From The HIBT Summit: Jeni Britton Bauer of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich (2018)
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
- ▶ 46:19 Sandy Lerner Because A, it was a really good product, and B, I think it was good timing because, you know, you're talking about the mid-nineties, you know, you're talking about Nirvana and, you know, the grunge wave
Larry Mestel – Making Music Royalties Sing (Capital Allocators, EP.30)
- ▶ 26:09 Ted Seides You know, this, it obviously sounds so sexy you're talking about Nirvana, Smokey Robinson.