John Jacobs
Co-Founder, Life is Good. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Everything John Jacobs said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
John Jacobs: T-shirts are deliberate public statements of personal belief
“We've always loved t-shirts, and it is a great vehicle for messages. Like, you look around, and people have made a choice what they're gonna share with people. That's a really big decision. It sounds very casual, but with the t-shirt, generally, you're kind of…”
John Jacobs: First 48 'Life Is Good' shirts sold out in an hour
“We got out on a, about a week after we came up with the idea, we got out to a street fair in Cambridge, Mass., and we were used to selling about 10 shirts in a whole day, and we'd have friends help out, and it was kind of fun, social, but there wasn't a swarm …”
The other half of the tape: John Jacobs's own voice is left out of every number here. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Statements about John Jacobs, by other people (2)
Founders Bert and John Jacobs had $78 left after printing first batch
“Not even, actually. 78 bucks, yeah, the day that we, after printing the 48 Life is Good t-shirts, we had 78 bucks left.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens John's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Co-Founder, Life is Good | 2 | 2 | — | full record on How I Built This → |