Amazon, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
How I Built Resilience: Emily Powell of Powell's Books
- ▶ 10:14 Guy Raz It's not just going to Amazon and clicking and buying a book.
- ▶ 11:25 Guy Raz One of the decisions that you made, um, was to pull Powell's from Amazon. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:47 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, more of my conversation with Emily Powell and how Powell's Books handles the competition from bookseller giants like Amazon.
- ▶ 13:51 Guy Raz In August, Powell's Books announced they would no longer be selling their books on Amazon's marketplace. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:16 Emily Powell I try to keep my body out of, you know, one less head count in our office space, but when I do, I've usually got a pile of letters waiting for me from people around the world saying thank you for what you're doing, or thank you for…
Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
Remembering Tony Hsieh of Zappos
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp
- ▶ 20:16 Jeremy Stoppelman That if you prove that someone transacted, then that review is therefore trustworthy, but all you have to do is, like, read one of the 20 stories on Amazon about how people still easily game that system, because, like, oh, you could send… 3 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble
How I Built Resilience (Special Edition): Guy Raz
- ▶ 15:49 Guy Raz But it was such a powerful episode, because here, here's this guy who sold his company for a billion dollars to Amazon, but who up until the very last second was actually really struggling.
- ▶ 23:55 Stacey Vanek-Smith Right, because you're like, if you're, if you're really in that moment with them, you don't know that everything's gonna be okay, and Amazon's gonna buy their company for a billion dollars.
How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster
- ▶ 18:38 Luke Holden You know, there was a lot of competition for real estate and this whole like Amazon effect of ultimately a lot of retail going out of business.
Chilewich: Sandy Chilewich
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
- ▶ 32:27 Oliver Kharraz Personally contact the patient to let them know, uh, and then I would offer them an Amazon gift card alongside with an apology.
- ▶ 1:01:13 Oliver Kharraz Uh, in my mind, we're at the point where Amazon started from going, uh, selling only books to also adding CDs.
How I Built Resilience: Sarah Harden and Lauren Neustadter of Hello Sunshine
- ▶ 1:51 Lauren Neustadter Our second season of The Morning Show, and we were meant to have a show, start production for Amazon, a show called Daisy Jones and the Six was going to start in April, and then we had another show for Netflix called From Scratch that…
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 2:27 Guy Raz But if you know the back of the envelope account of Jamie Siminoff, you'll know that he invented the ring doorbell in his garage in L.A., and then seven years later, he sold his business to Amazon for a billion dollars.
- ▶ 1:21:49 Guy Raz All right, so in 2016, Amazon makes a strategic investment in Ring. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:18 Guy Raz Alright, so you now are an Amazon employee, basically. 4 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Live with Cathy Hughes
How I Built Resilience: Live with Christina Tosi and Gary Erickson & Kit Crawford
- ▶ 10:21 Christina Tosi Into Whole Foods and I think Next Week on Amazon.
Fitbit: James Park
- ▶ 7:47 James Park Obviously, Amazon was around, etc., uh, a lot of e-commerce startups, but, you know, settled on this idea of making e-commerce a lot more seamless and, and frictionless, and came up with this idea of a electronic wallet that would…
Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman
- ▶ 51:11 Jonathan Neman You know, when we started Sweetgreen, people used to tell us, you know, you're lucky you earn food, because it's the one thing that Amazon will never touch. 3 times in the scene
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield (2017)
- ▶ 54:12 Clay McCabe Get a handle on what was going on with Amazon and how, you know, how it all worked. 2 times in the scene
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
- ▶ 52:44 Katia Beauchamp All of a sudden, it was just this question around direct-to-consumer businesses and how they would survive amongst, you know, competitors like Amazon, and there was no longer capital flowing into e-commerce.
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
- ▶ 11:49 Guy Raz I mean, I remember using Amazon and, you know, buying stuff from Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:17 John Collison Whereas now, as we've seen with companies like Amazon, like Lyft, like Instacart,