José Andrés
Founder, World Central Kitchen. On 2 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
2shows
3appearances
29statements
6resolved
4supported
1contradicted
67%fully supported
16said about them ↓ Everything José Andrés said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Andrés: Mixing family, friendship, and business creates powerful long-term partnerships
“It is good that you are able to very early on in your life, to surround yourself with people you want to be with for many years ahead. Not only for family, not only for friendship, but also for business. And if you can mix the three, it's even more wonderful.”
Andrés: World Central Kitchen reached Bahamas 10 days before other relief groups
“In Bahamas, we were the first ones on the ground and we fed 14 islands, 80,000 meals a day. We were the first ones 10 days before anybody else showed up.”
Andrés: World Central Kitchen acts as proof of concept for Congress
“Obviously we cannot be doing this with every single restaurant. I wish what we're doing is proving concept for Congress is no reason why in this moment food should be a problem.”
Andrés: WCK deploys to disasters before checking its bank balance
“If we ever look at the bank account of World Central Kitchen, before we went to Bahamas, or Puerto Rico, or North Carolina, or Florida, or Indonesia, and we base our response on the money we had in the bank, we wouldn't do one meal yet.”
Andrés: Charity should liberate the receiver rather than redeem the giver
“He told me that charity seems is always about the redemption of the giver, when charity should be about the liberation of the receiver,”
Andrés: Mastering Fire Control Is the Foundation of Great Cooking
“Cooking itself, it's easy. If somebody's controlling the fire, you want to be a great cook, be in charge of the fire, then you will be able to cook whatever you want in life.”
José Andrés: Jaleo Differentiated Itself via Long Menus and Shared Plates
“What Haleo did that was very different from the Spanish cooking that was happening before, especially restaurants in Florida and New York with big Spanish populations, what we did was that we had a very long menu and where we were really telling people that sh…”
José Andrés: Consumer food choices are an amazing form of democracy
“Because today, the way we eat is an amazing form of democracy. Because by what you eat, you are voting about the things you think should be, not only on your plate, but in the plates of many others. So we all need to start thinking that you can vote with your …”
José Andrés: Every creative professional ultimately works for themselves
“You can be anything you want, and you will always work for yourself. I don't care if you wanna be Painting in the middle of the streets of Washington DC. I don't care if you want to be singing with a rose in Fifth Avenue. I don't care what's the crazy business…”
José Andrés views opening restaurants as telling stories
“Quite frankly, I always say I don't open restaurants. I tell stories.”
Andrés: World Central Kitchen serves 200,000 meals daily during COVID-19
“I mean, quite frankly World Central Kitchen is doing close to over 200,000 meals a day. Today we reach three million meals by the end of today.”
Andrés: World Central Kitchen has mobilized over 500 US restaurants
“We have more than 500 restaurants that Across America, and we are adding new restaurants almost every day.”
Andrés: NGOs are the third largest employer in America
“We forget that NGOs are the third biggest employer in America.”
Andres: Nailted charges four euros per employee per month
“Yeah, we charge four euros per month per employee.”
Andres: Nailted bootstrapped to 2k MRR before raising 200k
“Yeah, we did bootstrap at the beginning until we reached to, 2000, I guess, MRR, but at that point we see the opportunity and all the three founders come from technical and startup background, so we decided to go for a little bit of money out there, so we rais…”
Andres built the first Nailted prototype in two days on Google Drive
“I was coding this prototype. It was just two days or so because it was writing in based on Google drive.”
Andres: Nailted adds 3 to 5 paying customers monthly without marketing
“Well, not so many maybe three or five on average, meaning, meaning customers, paying customers because we are not doing marketing at all right now.”
Andres: Seven companies have churned from Nailted
“I guess our absolute number in tune is now is seven companies that have turned.”
Jose Andres: Nailted burns around 9,000 euros per month
“I guess around I'm telling you in euros is like 9000 euros per month, more or less.”
Andrés: Michelin-starred minibar serves just 16 people per day
“In my Michelin star restaurant mini bar, we feed 16 people every day only in a very expensive restaurant. Only a few hundred people every year can eat in that restaurant.”
José Andrés failed cooking, English, and accounting in culinary school
“I never graduated. They gave me the diploma last year, almost 30 years later, and I fell cooking, English, and accounting.”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Founder, World Central Kitchen | 2 | 20 | 67% 4/6 | full record on How I Built This → |
 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | 1 | 9 | — | full record on Top Founders → |