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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
Advice Line with Todd Graves of Raising Cane's
- ▶ 11:06 Evan Sledge And, uh, yeah, we got, we had 320 bucks as a group from the class and we bought green beans off of Amazon and, and aged it and, and luckily people around school bought it.
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
- ▶ 41:09 Slava Rubin We just started with film because trying to take a, you know, page out of the playbook of Amazon, you know, starting with books only and then expanding to other stuff.
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 1:05 Guy Raz You built the incredible Ring Doorbell, which is now an entire home security system that you sold to Amazon, and now you are back running it.
- ▶ 19:38 Eric Alexson Both the website and we most recently have launched on Amazon for the retail aspect, which leads me to my question to you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:22 Chris McElroy And then, of course, we have our own Amazon and, uh, direct-to-consumer channel.
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
- ▶ 19:16 Stacey Bernstein So we're DTC, Amazon, and we're in about a hundred plus retail locations across the country, including Air One, um, a few, um, resorts, and, and we're, we're really kind of actually testing these channels and see where we live best. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International
- ▶ 9:01 Daniel Moll Yeah, we're mostly online today, we're also on Amazon, and then we're getting into some retail stores, and we're also carried by a few hotels and Airbnbs as well.
- ▶ 34:14 Ryan Hellriegel We sell on Amazon and our website, primarily.
Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements
- ▶ 7:53 Jake DeLeon Yeah, we're, we're available nationwide in select stores, Walmart, Whole Foods, uh, Kroger, Meijer, um, and, and, uh, some other independents as well, and as, as you mentioned, Guy, we're available online on Amazon and our own…
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- ▶ 2:53 Guy Raz In the early 2000, she landed her first job at Amazon, just as the company was at a critical turning point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00 Natalie Gordon It was a really great time to be at Amazon. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Natalie Gordon I really was part of the founding team for Amazon Fresh. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:03 Natalie Gordon And I started feeling really excited that I wanted to build something, and my actual framing for it was, I went to college for four years, I worked at Amazon for four years, and like, I don't actually know how to build an app or a website… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:49 Natalie Gordon Most baby registries were single store registries, and so you could only add items from Babies R Us, and then you'd have a second registry for Amazon.com.
- ▶ 47:35 Guy Raz I, I wonder how you were getting, I mean, the, the sort of the affiliate programs with Amazon and Target and others, that's, you just kind of plug that in, but then you started to work directly with smaller vendors, right, that, that maybe… 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
- ▶ 4:40 Niraj Shah And so then all of a sudden we have the specialist benefit versus the Amazons and the Walmarts of the world, and we have the scale benefit versus the upstarts who maybe are focused on the same exact market as us, but they don't have the…
- ▶ 10:04 Valerie Zweig We hit sort of, uh, mid-Atlantic Whole Foods stores and Amazon, and it is, it is an interesting, you know, reading a lot of the Amazon reviews and feedback, you know, you start to sort of pick up things, and it's like, okay, our initial… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:51 Bree Van Leeuwen Yeah, we're all, we're all on our website, and we also sell on Amazon as well. 2 times in the scene
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
- ▶ 47:29 Jeff Braverman I'll say we, but more me had just the foresight that like this Amazon centric world is going to do a great job at intermediating your relationship with the brand. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:37 Jeff Braverman And obviously you pay for Prime, but people obviously forget that.
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft
- ▶ 13:51 John Zimmer But, uh, to understand those basic economics, I think, you know, in the, in the way you asked the question, I don't know that you need to set up the warehousing yourself, you know, whether you think about using someone, uh, either like a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:03 John Zimmer I've, I have a friend in New York and I don't know if we can follow up after, but I can provide maybe their contact information who has really specialized in finding people that are selling on Amazon or direct to consumer, because it does…
- ▶ 33:25 Kobe Goodwin I bought a kilo of beans off of Amazon.
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- ▶ 56:42 Craig Newmark Um, frankly, my wife is still telling me that I could do, I should do better than buying 15 dollar Henleys from Amazon.
Advice Line with Randy Hetrick of TRX
- ▶ 6:17 Guy Raz If you were today, I mean, you are doing it right with your new company, but if you were to, to introduce a new product into the market today, what do you think you would do differently in order to break through all the noise and the…
- ▶ 14:28 Randy Hetrick And we obviously do a lot on Amazon, but what I was going to, to mention to page was that very, very early at about the same point in, in our evolution.
Poppi: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. From Farmers Market Vinegar Drink to $2B Soda Sensation
- ▶ 48:50 Allison Ellsworth It just had escalated really quickly within COVID, and we were so thankful that we had loaded in a ton of product into Amazon. 8 times in the scene
Advice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty
- ▶ 34:08 Henry Davis A chemistry set off of Amazon
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 1:02:17 Nirav Tolia Amazon hasn't, right?
Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire.
- ▶ 38:00 Carlton Calvin I, I mean, I clearly like any number of people, I had my relationships with Toys R Us and Walmart and Amazon and not Amazon, uh, Target, you know, all the players 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:06 Guy Raz When, when did that start to shift to Amazon and to online? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:45 Guy Raz You can still buy them on Amazon, and you can find the slammers with the scorpions inside on eBay.
Advice Line with Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment
WHOOP: Will Ahmed
- ▶ 1:51 Guy Raz Brands like Nike and Under Armour and Amazon and Apple.
- ▶ 48:34 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Whoop changes its business model, and another massive company enters the wearables market, Amazon.
- ▶ 53:10 Guy Raz Um, but one, one interesting thing happens that year, which is your approach by Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:03 Guy Raz All right, I want to turn back to the Amazon story, because they, they were sort of toying with the idea of investing, and they decided not to, and that goes away, and you know, you keep working on
- ▶ 58:26 Will Ahmed And by the way, it was so egregious that one of the lead, the lead product manager from Amazon, when it came out, posted on Twitter, whoop, there it is announcing the new Amazon Halo. 2 times in the scene
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.