Africa, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 25R.V. Xiongwe 6Pierre Thiam 6Sara Menker 4Jimmy Wales 4Shimon Elkabetz 3Sharon Chuter 3Todd Carmichael 2Taha Bawa 2Melissa Butler 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Africa comes up
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- ▶ 46:14 Todd Carmichael The problem is, in places like Haiti, or in Africa, or even El Salvador, there are loads of gringos that show up making promises and then never come back.
Advice Line: Playing to Your Strengths
- ▶ 17:42 R.V. Xiongwe Uh, binoculars, range finders for golf, you know, the safari and outdoor space is mostly, uh, binoculars, spotting scopes, uh, which we, uh, supply to, uh, safari lodges throughout Africa. 6 times in the scene
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 8:25 Guy Raz And, and I, and you write this on your blog, blog post, Lifestyle Ignition, back in 2008, you write, I am gonna go on a bike trip across Africa. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:39 Guy Raz You're still thinking about a bike trip across Africa.
- ▶ 1:06:27 Guy Raz By the way, remember that bicycle tour Mark was planning to take across Africa before he started the company?
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
Aviator Nation: Paige Mycoskie
- ▶ 7:23 Paige Mycoskie We started actually in Las Vegas, and they dropped us off in helicopters in the middle of the desert, and basically we had to find our way to an airport, and then the first stop was Brazil, and we went to Hong Kong, we went to Australia,…
Delivering the future in drones with Keller Rinaudo Cliffton of Zipline
- ▶ 12:41 Guy Raz And it's interesting because it's, it's a similar story in Africa with cell phones, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:30 Guy Raz Um, you are obviously in Rwanda and have expanded to Ghana and several other countries in Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, um, and, and even have some operations here in the US.
The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- ▶ 13:22 Melissa Butler You know, um, people would come up to me and, and touch my skin, and everyone automatically assumed that I was, you know, from an African country, because if you had black skin, then you were automatically from Africa.
HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti
- ▶ 34:39 Joe Laurienti They are in rural parts of Africa, and that's just data provision, access to internet.
HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch
- ▶ 36:03 Lucie Basch And, you know, later it should be South America, it should be Australia, it should be Asia, Africa.
HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker
- ▶ 8:55 Sara Menker I've fallen in love with this other problem, and I need to move back to Africa, and I want to do something that solves for sort of food security, and he was like, you've lost your mind.
- ▶ 14:25 Sara Menker So corn in the U S soybeans in the U S like really big markets before you start to go to Russia or India or Africa or 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 Guy Raz Um, what, what does that mean for food security or insecurity, particularly in African countries and Asian countries that rely on
- ▶ 31:26 Sara Menker In places like India, in places like Russia, in places like China, in places like Africa, our lead time for sort of our insights is one to two years at times.
HIBT Lab! Tala: Shivani Siroya
- ▶ 0:41 Guy Raz Shivani was based in Africa where she met entrepreneurs who didn't have access to cash to expand their businesses.
- ▶ 7:27 Guy Raz So you were working on these projects in these countries in Africa, and tell me somebody you came across who, I know you started to connect the dots, and you thought this person could use a small amount of money, like under a thousand…
HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz
- ▶ 15:13 Shimon Elkabetz You don't have many sensors in Latin America, in Africa, in India, in many places, uh, in the world.
- ▶ 25:23 Shimon Elkabetz Same for Africa, India, um, and, and large portions of, of Asia, uh, and of course over the oceans as you, as you sail.
- ▶ 36:47 Shimon Elkabetz And, and it started with a big focus on Africa.
HIBT Lab! Yolélé: Pierre Thiam
- ▶ 0:35 Guy Raz It was high in protein, gluten-free, and most intriguingly, it was an ancient grain from Africa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Pierre Thiam You know, it's the most western coast of Africa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 Pierre Thiam New York is calling itself the food capital of the world, but Africa is not in this world.
- ▶ 21:43 Guy Raz From what I understand, even in Africa, phonia was much more widely eaten a hundred, 200 years ago than it is today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:47 Pierre Thiam And they came and those guys are like these Chicago executives and never been to Africa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:54 Pierre Thiam Some were connecting with it because of the, the heritage aspect of it, you know, so you have the African diaspora who could connect with this grain, who is considered as the oldest cultivated grain in Africa.
Roblox: David Baszucki
HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler
HIBT Lab! Google: Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 16:54 Sundar Pichai We are mapping buildings in Africa, and these are hard to do, and we're using AI to really scale up the number of buildings we are mapping, and we are sharing the data with the World Bank and the United Nations to use for nonprofit…
Food52: Amanda Hesser
- ▶ 14:33 Amanda Hesser He had a spare apartment up there that was filled with his, uh, taxidermy, uh, prizes from his trips to Africa.
The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler
- ▶ 13:25 Melissa Butler And if you were from America, then you were blonde hair and blue eyes.
Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Calendly: Tope Awotona
How I Built Resilience: Niraj Shah and Steve Conine of Wayfair
- ▶ 18:30 Niraj Shah It was actually mattresses sold to a, uh, non-profit, a, uh, that operates refugee shelters all over the world, in Africa and in the United States and Europe.
How I Built Resilience: Taha Bawa of Goodwall
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti
- ▶ 45:43 Todd Carmichael The problem is, in places like Haiti, or in Africa, or even El Salvador, there are loads of gringos that show up making promises and then never come back.
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
- ▶ 1:01:40 Vicky Tsai And they have a special fund for girls and, uh, fund, uh, girls education, including, um, second, uh, skills, life skills training throughout Southeast Asian Africa.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Sharon Chuter
- ▶ 6:50 Sharon Chuter Even in Africa, the standard of beauty is still very Anglo-centric. 3 times in the scene
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 1:04:02 Casey Neistat Yeah, I mean, it was, it was both figuratively and literally, like, we wanted to dip our toe in the water of all these locations, and I remember things like going to internet cafes and searching, like, biggest waterfall, and then sending…
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018)
- ▶ 0:55 Jimmy Wales You could just be the first person to say, Africa is a continent, and hit save.
- ▶ 16:10 Jimmy Wales You could just be the first person to say, Africa is a continent, and hit save.
Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017)
- ▶ 22:47 Maureen Wheeler We have two children, and every school holiday, we'd, we'd just go Africa or Asia or wherever, and they'd travel with us for that period of time.
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
- ▶ 0:14 Jimmy Wales You could just be the first person to say, Africa is a continent, and hit save.
- ▶ 15:41 Jimmy Wales You could just be the first person to say, Africa is a continent, and hit save.
Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler
- ▶ 24:49 Maureen Wheeler We'd, we'd just go Africa or Asia or wherever, and they'd travel with us for that period of time.