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Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand. Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Advice Line with Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club Oct 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:44 Guy Raz And he happened to read an article about Adidas and how Adidas really turned around their business in the United States in part because of a brand Bible. 2 times in the scene

WHOOP: Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:27 Will Ahmed Nike, Under Armour, Adidas, Puma entering the space.
  • ▶ 59:06 Will Ahmed I had already seen how Nike and Adidas and Under Armour and Puma and Microsoft and Apple were supposed to be the death of Whoop.

Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group May 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:40 Guy Raz I mean, I'm assuming like any consumer, they're still buying Viore, they're still buying Under Armour, Nike, Adidas.

Advice Line with Angie Hicks of Angi Oct 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:58 Guy Raz It's the first, really the first shoe brand to challenge the dominance of Nike and Adidas, certainly with running.

Advice Line with Sadie Lincoln of barre3 Sep 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:29 Guy Raz and then now Adidas has, you know, headquarters there, and so from, from that perspective, it's a major, um,

Specialized Bicycle Components: Mike Sinyard Jul 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:35 Mike Sinyard So Peter Moore, he was the original creative director of Nike, created the Air Jordan brand, and really created the brand and the brand standards, and then he went on to Adidas and was the CEO of Adidas, and I read this article that he'd… 2 times in the scene

Advice Line with Joe Kudla of Vuori Jul 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:36 Joe Kudla I mean, we, when I entered the market at Viore, people were like, how are you going to compete with Nike or Lululemon or Adidas?

On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti Jul 22, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:01 Guy Raz Nike, Adidas, Puma, New Balance.
  • ▶ 24:36 Olivier Bernhard We pitched it to Nike, Puma, Adidas, uh, New Balance.
  • ▶ 28:13 Guy Raz And by the way, just to be clear, you had a lot of standing to say that because you worked at Young and Rubicam, and you knew how challenging this market was going to be to get into and how the massive ad budgets that Nikes and Adidas and…
  • ▶ 38:14 Guy Raz What flipped in your mind where you were like, yeah, ok, let's, let's take on Nike and Adidas and Puma and, you know, Asics.
  • ▶ 48:49 Olivier Bernhard Leave that to Nike, to Adidas.
  • ▶ 55:23 Guy Raz Obviously Nike's there, Adidas is there. 2 times in the scene

American Giant: Bayard Winthrop Jul 1, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:20 Bayard Winthrop Uh, kind of Gary Peck runs that operation up there, and Gary had worked for Adidas for many, many years, had worked in the American-made division of Adidas, and had a lot of knowledge, and Gary was a really integral part early on, as the S… 2 times in the scene

Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar May 9, 2024 · 2 mentions

Liquid Death: Mike Cessario Jan 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:59 Mike Cessario Like, Nike doesn't market because they say, hey, our commercials, our shoes use this type of material that lasts 37 days longer than Adidas.

The art of letting go with Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn of Dang Foods Nov 2, 2023 · 2 mentions

Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack Oct 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:04 Guy Raz I mean, there were, you know, as a kid, I had a Gen Sport backpack, I think, and, you know, obviously the, you know, the, the big brands, the Adidas's and, you know, Nike's made backpacks, but you felt like

Vuori: Joe Kudla Oct 2, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 22:38 Joe Kudla What, what, our observation was that the big brands that we grew up with as kids competing in sports, you know, you think of the Nikes and the Adidas's of the world, like, they designed clothing that really identified you as somebody that…
  • ▶ 30:55 Guy Raz They're gonna come in with their Adidas and Nike shorts.
  • ▶ 53:35 Joe Kudla Historically, it was dominated by Nike and Adidas and these big brands, and they really didn't have a premium offering.

Sun Bum: Tom Rinks Mar 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:13 Tom Rinks That's the other thing, you know, if you take Sonny, the logo, the Ape logo, and you put it next to all the other big brands out there, right, forget about the Coppertones and the Banana Boats, those are just names, but if you put it next…

HIBT Lab! Saysh: Wes and Allyson Felix Mar 16, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:57 Guy Raz Allison, you decided, um, your senior year of high school to go pro, which I was, I guess it was kind of controversial at the time because you were offered, obviously, every school wanted you, um uh,, on their team and, and including USC…
  • ▶ 8:34 Wes Felix And I remember that, you know, Alison had like her contract with Adidas and it was this really great deal, really, really incredible opportunity for her, um, a really big deal in the sport. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:24 Guy Raz A new sponsorship deal for Allison, so leaving Adidas, signing with Nike,
  • ▶ 34:10 Guy Raz Like, why do we actually need Nike or Adidas on

Michael Kors: Michael Kors Mar 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:09 Guy Raz If building a fashion brand is hard, turning that brand into a global one is really hard, especially because names like Nike, Adidas, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci take up so much market share.

Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg Sep 19, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:54 Guy Raz Nike or Adidas, or they were tube socks you'd buy in packets at Target, or dress socks that you would buy, you know, or whatever it was, thin dress socks, athletic tube socks, and, you know, but, but now I can look back and say, of course…

HIBT Lab! UNLESS Collective: Eric Liedtke May 16, 2022 · 21 mentions

  • ▶ 0:52 Guy Raz He's spent nearly 30 years working for Adidas, which is actually how it's pronounced. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:24 Guy Raz Um, 26 year career at Adidas, and what you really became known for was a, a, an obsessive focus on sustainability. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:54 Guy Raz I'm here with Eric Leakey, founder of Unless Collective, former global chief marketing officer at Adidas. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:34 Guy Raz If your goal, right, is to help move the industry towards sustainability by, clearly by providing a model and an example, you could arguably have, have sort of scaled this faster with a, through a massive global brand like Adidas, right? 2 times in the scene

Title Nine: Missy Park Oct 18, 2021 · 1 mention

inov-8: Wayne Edy Sep 13, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:55 Guy Raz She was actually, I think, sponsored by Adidas. 3 times in the scene

Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018) Jan 6, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:54 Guy Raz More than Sony, more than Mercedes Benz or Adidas, and yes, more than Apple Macs.

Outdoor Voices: Tyler Haney Nov 25, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:09 Guy Raz There was Lululemon and Athleta in addition to the major sports brands like Adidas and Under Armour and Nike.

FUBU: Daymond John (2018) Nov 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:36 Guy Raz Adidas struck a, like a really famous deal with Run DMC after, after my Adidas, which was one of the first times a major company did a branding deal with, um, with, with any musical artist.

Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger Jun 10, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 58:30 Guy Raz I mean, because at some point, a big shoe company, Nike or Adidas might say, hey, we want to buy you for forty billion dollars.

Stitch Fix's Katrina Lake At The HIBT Summit Dec 13, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:43 Katrina Lake Um, and, you know, there's, you know, kind of largely this, like, coder, code in your garage, like, wear Adidas flops kind of, like, kind of personality that, um, that, you know, didn't feel all that accessible to me.

FUBU: Daymond John Apr 9, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:49 Guy Raz Um, Adidas struck a, like a really famous deal with Run DMC after, after my Adidas, which was one of the first times a major company did a branding deal with, um, with, with any musical artist.

Dell Computers: Michael Dell Jan 29, 2018 · 1 mention

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