Amazon, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method
- ▶ 4:15 Eric Ryan You can find it at Target, Amazon.
- ▶ 36:30 Matt Angorn Uh, we're also on Amazon, um, and we're on QVC. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group
- ▶ 21:39 Cody Johnson We really just validated the product on Amazon and became an Amazon's choice product. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line: Scaling Strategies
Whisker/Litter-Robot: Brad Baxter
Snap: Evan Spiegel
- ▶ 41:48 Evan Spiegel So if you look at like the advent of desktop internet, that was really the strategy very early on for players like an Amazon, for example.
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
Advice Line with Peter Rahal of RXBAR
- ▶ 5:39 Peter Rahal We're just starting to, but yeah, most predominantly we're a direct to consumer in Amazon.
- ▶ 10:50 Peter Rahal So Meta, Google, and Amazon.
- ▶ 20:45 Eric Rukiski Um, that's my, part of my question is today is the, you know, 400,000 that was from Amazon, where our margins around, like, 21%, 18 to 22%, and then the rest of that was on Shopify, which is after, um, advertising efforts, that goes down… 12 times in the scene
Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz In those years, before Spotify and Amazon and Apple Music, if you wanted to listen to a specific song, you had to buy the whole CD at a record store.
- ▶ 41:01 Niklas Zennström So you kind of was really smart to invest in say a German copycat of eBay because eBay would probably buy them or, or a Nordic version of, of, uh, Amazon.
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 7:52 Mark Lawrence I bought a beard trimmer, ok, like, off Amazon for, like, 30 dollars, and he was so disappointed.
Advice Line with Alberto Perlman of Zumba
- ▶ 23:00 Jack Shrup We sell on our website and on Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Joe Gebbia of Airbnb
- ▶ 8:09 Marina Lido Um, we previously sold on Amazon. 8 times in the scene
Fanatics: Michael Rubin
- ▶ 39:13 Michael Rubin At the same time, I had watched Amazon and Alibaba disrupt retail in such a, such a meaningful way that I knew if we didn't really differentiate the business, that it wouldn't exist long term. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Katlin Smith of Simple Mills
- ▶ 36:39 Marissa Gurdian Okay, so we're selling on Chewy, Amazon, Petco, and we're launching with a container store in QVC.
Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon
Hero Cosmetics: Ju Rhyu and Dwight Lee
- ▶ 36:16 Dwight Lee We were just, we were just always building things in the agency, but we wanted a product to sell, uh, particularly on Amazon and the acne patches seemed like a really good product because of, you know, the size, the entry is sort of low…
- ▶ 39:55 Guy Raz And, and by the way, tell me about launching on Amazon, because there are million, millions of products on Amazon, right? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:58 Guy Raz Okay, so you, you sell 10,000 units by the end of 20 17 entirely through Amazon, and that really proves out this, that there's something there, and I guess at this point you're, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:37 Ju Rhyu Yeah, so Amazon for us was a very profitable channel, and the money we made from Amazon, we put towards launching our DTC site, launching slowly in retail, and I mean, we were, we bootstrapped for the first three years, and I think largely… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:01 Ju Rhyu Luckily, we were in the channels that were still deemed, like, essential retailers, so Amazon was still online, Target was deemed essential retailers, so, um, so we really didn't see much impact.
- ▶ 1:09:58 Guy Raz The acquisition was announced in August of 2022 six hundred thirty million dollar acquisition amazing for a brand that really launched in September of 2017 on Amazon.
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Marc Lore
The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
- ▶ 50:01 Kip Tindell Most people would say Amazon. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:12 Guy Raz Like the Container Store probably made that brand, but then they could sell on Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
- ▶ 35:33 Steve Case I'd go back to exactly how, when they're learning about this, you know, if, if they're reading an article or hearing about some kind of promotion you have, how do you simplify, you know, what it is and, and, and maybe get really easy to…
Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball
- ▶ 23:23 Cindy Chin Smith I've done a little bit of pop-up shops, a little bit of wholesale, but mainly on my website, Instagram, um, and we started doing Amazon as well.
Advice Line with Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- ▶ 34:11 Scott Tannen I was just like, oh, you know, it's like Amazon.
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 50:44 Guy Raz And, and he, uh, he was a former, I guess, Amazon executive, so he comes in as CEO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:31 Matt Meeker So one way we're growing very rapidly right now is Amazon.
- ▶ 58:36 Matt Meeker People love their Amazon Prime.
Advice Line with Angie Hicks of Angi
- ▶ 24:02 Diane O'Connor Meeting a place in the market where people are responding to, um, their, you know, during COVID, people were stuck in their homes, and they basically had their husbands and children and Amazon as their best friends, and, um, I loved, you… 2 times in the scene
What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 2
- ▶ 14:21 Caue Suplicy So that has been part of our innovation where we started with just bananas, and now we are buying plantains from the same communities in the Amazon, and we're also buying cassava from these communities because they can grow cassava in the…
- ▶ 34:16 Caue Suplicy The bigger we get, the more impact we have, the more food waste reduction we have, the more people we help in the Amazon, like the more forests we protect, more regenerative agricultural.
Advice Line with Michael Preysman of Everlane
- ▶ 34:25 Paul Musayev Lid.com and Amazon.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 53:40 Rod Cuthbert In those days, pre-cloud, there was no Amazon or, or Google Cloud, many companies ran their web businesses
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
- ▶ 30:39 Christiana Martins And then in 2019 to start, decided to start my own, uh, company called Do Goodery, where we consult with major corporations like Amazon and Disney to help them be better corporate citizens.
Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 1:46 Guy Raz Yeah, and of course, you pursued that idea, which, which was a bet that would eventually pay off in spades when, when Ring was acquired by Amazon, but there was a lot of, a lot of false starts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:43 Francesca Thompson So I am at the point where I'm transitioning from my teacher pay teacher, um, site to actual storefront on Amazon. 9 times in the scene
Advice Line with Holly Thaggard of Supergoop!
- ▶ 33:42 Erin McLaughlin It's also available on Amazon.
Thrive Market: Nick Green
SmartSweets: Tara Bosch
Advice Line with Jeff Raider of Harry's
- ▶ 20:52 Travis Leahy So as Amazon and UPS and FedEx each day, they show up and they can deliver up to a hundred packages a day for these properties.
BONUS: Brand Building Live at Cannes Lions
- ▶ 0:54 Guy Raz Our conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at Amazon's stage at Cannes and was supported by Wondery, and it was filled with insights on what it takes to build a world
- ▶ 13:07 Guy Raz Here's more for my conversation with Jim Stengel, live on the Amazon stage and supported by Wondery at Cannes Lions.
- ▶ 27:21 Guy Raz And thanks to Amazon and to Wondery for hosting our conversation live at Cannes Lions.
Advice Line with Tony Lamb of Kona Ice
- ▶ 38:00 Jennifer Braidwood So I think growing a, a large and, and well-known direct to consumer home goods brand is, is the goal.
Ouidad hair products: Ouidad Wise
Advice Line with Mark Ramadan of Sir Kensington's
- ▶ 36:59 Beth Beneke So while we were sitting at the table, I went on Amazon to buy something so that when my son was big enough, he wouldn't be that distraction at the table.
Advice Line with Randy Goldberg of Bombas
- ▶ 25:04 Guy Raz Cause I'm looking at Amazon.
- ▶ 37:59 Ana Bencivenga hey, this is not just a 30 dollar sweater you can get on Amazon.
ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko
Advice Line with Maureen Kelly of Tarte Cosmetics
- ▶ 4:01 Christina O'Brien It's Danielle, my business partner, and myself, and we have an Amazon page.
Therabody: Jason Wersland
- ▶ 1:06:44 Jason Wersland Um, companies like Amazon were amazing. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Andrew Abraham of Orgain
- ▶ 46:42 Andrew Abraham Amazon for us is a major business. 2 times in the scene
nutpods: Madeline Haydon
- ▶ 4:38 Guy Raz Madeline had a really hard time attracting investors, and almost all of her sales were through Amazon.
- ▶ 41:29 Madeline Haydon We launched on Amazon because at that point I had 510 Kickstarter backers that had waited two years to see product. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:22 Guy Raz I read a story about how when you decided to really lean into direct-to-consumer, initially through Amazon, really through Amazon, you actually got pushback or some warnings from industry veterans who said, you know, you really got to be… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:05 Guy Raz So it's 2018, and even though Nutpods has been pretty successful on Amazon, Madeline is still having trouble getting the company to the next level. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:15 Madeline Haydon That next year, 2019 was this magical year where we were Amazon small business of the year.
Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
- ▶ 19:43 Valerie Franklin How do we break into a market space that is filled with giants like Etsy and Amazon? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:57 unnamed speaker Um, we are, we kill it on Amazon, even though after like the first year, uh, Alibaba just started pumping out, uh, copies, but cheap copies of our products.
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
- ▶ 16:32 Ev Williams Um, there was a couple essays I wrote that were, the only one I remember is why Amazon shouldn't expand beyond books.
YouTube Creator and Cookbook Author: Rosanna Pansino
- ▶ 49:34 Rosanna Pansino We made, um, like, home organizational stuff for your kitchen and pantry, and those were at Container Stores, and we just moved, uh, this year, I think, into the UK and Canada and, uh, also, uh, on Amazon.
CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne
“Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto
Weee!: Larry Liu
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021)
- ▶ 26:10 Fawn Weaver And so I begin looking into the story even more, and I got on Amazon and I ordered Jack Daniels Legacy.
Sonos: John MacFarlane
- ▶ 1:36 Guy Raz But I always figured it was just a matter of time before Google or Amazon or Apple or Samsung or any other tech giant
- ▶ 41:35 John MacFarlane While they did fill the home with music, they just, you know, it was usually the B or C team, um, TVs were much more popular, home theater receivers, uh, so they were just kind of on autopilot, and what we were worried about is that Apple,…
- ▶ 42:25 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, what happens to Sonos after Alexa and Siri enter the home speaker market?
- ▶ 43:12 Guy Raz Amazon launches the Echo, and Sonos is suddenly competing with a bot named Alexa. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:12 Guy Raz Amazon launches the Echo, and Sonos is suddenly competing with a bot named Alexa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:12 Guy Raz Amazon launches the Echo, and Sonos is suddenly competing with a bot named Alexa. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:09 Guy Raz You know, the Google speaker and the Amazon speaker and the Apple speaker.
Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz
- ▶ 1:08:20 Gabi Lewis We then launched on Amazon, very quickly actually became the number one best selling cereal on Amazon. 2 times in the scene
3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
- ▶ 4:29 Jason Ballard We ordered every book on three-D printing off of Amazon, started meeting with other three-D printing companies just to learn and soak up the knowledge really fast, and we were introduced to another gentleman here in Texas that kept coming…
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- ▶ 53:50 Guy Raz To consumer from like, you were gonna, I don't know, have like a logistics or drop shipping or some kind of third party, you know, logistics team that would sell them directly or you would do it through Amazon or what? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:22 Mike Cessario Amazon and direct-to-consumer business. 3 times in the scene
Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
- ▶ 1:27 RJ Scaringe And we launched our truck, our R-I-T, its sibling variant, the R-I-S, uh, and then a commercial van with Amazon as the lead customer.
- ▶ 12:49 RJ Scaringe And, you know, Amazon is, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:14 Guy Raz Amazon wrote down their shares.
Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
- ▶ 1:40 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Hernan Lopez saw the early promise of podcasts and left a corporate job to start Wondery, a podcast platform that eventually sold to Amazon for hundreds of millions of dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:49 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, why Hernan says no to a new offer to buy Wondery before saying yes to Amazon, and how his life turns upside down when he's embroiled in a federal bribery case.
- ▶ 1:07:36 Hernán López And w, there were lots of conversations, uh, in the board and some people wanted us to continue to build, but ultimately we came to the conclusion that taking, uh, the deal with Amazon was in the best interest of the company. 3 times in the scene