Alan Newman

Everything Alan Newman said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Newman: My co-founder fired me by letter while I was on sabbatical

“I didn't know until I sent an email or a letter or however we communicated in those days Saying, okay, getting ready to come back, why don't we get together and let me talk about some of the ideas that I have put together that I'd love to start implementing, a…”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 45:27 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Newman: Eco-friendly products must sell on personal benefit, not just environment

“And this is really where I personally learned that you really need to sell from benefit, not feature. You know, the feature that you're saving the environment, yeah, that was nice, but it was only good after you passed the what's in it for me.”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 20:01 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Newman: Creating a culture where employees share fears makes businesses more productive

“What I learned was that the greatest obstacle to success was fear, fear of people that they didn't know what they were doing and somebody was going to find out. And so what I discovered was that if I could get people To share their fears and realize that we're…”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 30:49 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Newman: The Gulf War crashed our daily orders from 1,500 to 100

“When the Gulf war started, everybody turned on their television and was glued to the television. And our, we went from, I seem to remember 12 to 1500 orders a day down to less than a hundred.”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 40:56 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Newman: I held up the IPO until Seventh Generation bought out my shares

“If you really want to solve this problem, you need to buy me out. And that's when that's when I got paid out.”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 50:24 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Newman: Hollender was brilliant in turning Seventh Generation around

“I think what Jeffrey did with the business after I left was in many ways, brilliant, you know, certainly deserves a lot of credit for taking this concept and this fledgling business who was really down on its luck and finding the way”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 1:16:16 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Newman: It makes me sad that Magic Hat probably won't survive much longer

“I was watching Magic Hat, you know, tank, and, you know, it's continuing to tank, and it's probably not going to make it much longer, and it made me really sad to realize that that's not living in my legacy.”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 1:22:46 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Partly supported

Newman: A nonprofit gave me their mail-order catalog business for free

“Finally, I got a call from them one day, and they said, we're done. So either we're gonna ship everything to you, and it's your business to do whatever you want, or we're gonna throw it all in the garbage can.”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 16:38 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Newman: Magic Hat became a top 10 US craft brewery

“And it kept the demand for our beer growing until, you know, we were in the top 10 largest craft breweries in America.”

Alan Newman Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 1:21:27 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

The other half of the tape: Alan Newman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode across the shows. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Guy Raz 1

Statements about Alan Newman, by other people (3)

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Hollender: Seventh Generation gave a weekly prize for the biggest employee mistake

“One of my fondest memories is that in our staff meetings, we would actually give a prize out to the person who made the biggest mistake that week, and they would get a coupon to go out to dinner with their friend or their wife.”

Jeffrey Hollender Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 37:56 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Hollender: Seventh Generation never put Newman's sabbatical terms in writing

“One of the things we could have done that we didn't do is put things in writing when Alan left. So, A written document that says Alan's taking six months off, and he will return at the end of six months and fulfill the position he had before. I mean, that wasn…”

Jeffrey Hollender Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 46:39 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

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Hollender: Seventh Generation co-founders saw a counselor to reconcile differences

“We went to see a third party to try to reconcile our differences. And we had a series of meetings with a sort of marriage counselor type person to see if we could mend the relationship, which I don't think happened very successfully.”

Jeffrey Hollender Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 51:01 Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alan's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER	Owner, ArtsRiot	1 +1	9	50% 1/2	full record on How I Built This →