Austin, Texas, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 72Kendra Scott 9John Mackey 8Blake Mycoskie 8Tyler Haney 7Miguel Garza 6Yasmin Santos 4Sharon Tindell 4Roy Seiders 4Michael Dell 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Austin, Texas comes up
YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
- ▶ 3:39 Guy Raz Roy and Ryan grew up in Driftwood, a small community in the Texas Hill Country, just outside of Austin.
- ▶ 10:41 Roy Seiders It had just this table connected, and I would, I'd buy the saw horse at, at Home Depot, a foldable metal saw horse, and I'd make this little custom top for, um, sighting in your rifle, and I sold some to friends and family, and I sold some…
- ▶ 16:38 Roy Seiders McBride's in Austin.
- ▶ 43:52 Roy Seiders But there was a pretty unique dynamic going on where when I walked into McBride's in Austin or Barings Hardware in Houston or the Tacklebox in San Antonio, which are small little sporting goods stores or hardware stores, none of those guys…
- ▶ 47:09 Guy Raz Really, you're focusing on Austin, San Antonio, places within a few hours drive.
- ▶ 1:06:44 Roy Seiders And, uh, then we started getting into some, you know, funner videos of my friend, the same guy that owned the camera, found this bouncer down on, on sixth street here in Austin and hired him to come do this video where
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
- ▶ 21:20 Matt O'Hayer Got on phone with London and Austin and laid off a 140 people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:24 Guy Raz So it's 2007, and after talking to John Mackey about the challenges of the chicken business, Matt moves back to Austin, where he decides to buy a farm. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:52 Guy Raz You weren't even in the Whole Foods in Austin?
- ▶ 49:20 Guy Raz You don't have eggs on this 27 acre farm in Austin. eggs 2 times in the scene
Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business
- ▶ 36:00 Beryl Stafford And I was really taking it seriously then, and I was excited about it, and, and I was working very, very hard, and traveling a lot to Seattle, Austin, you know, Southern Cal, where I thought was the best markets.
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyer's
- ▶ 30:39 Monica Nassif You're not going to go run on, running off to Austin, Texas, for example.
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- ▶ 15:31 Guy Raz and then you lived in Austin for some time, but, but I know that, I mean,
- ▶ 1:11:40 Chip Gaines Come from Tennessee, come from Dallas or Houston or Austin, great cities in their own right, and come to Waco, Texas and be like, wow, this isn't at all what I expected.
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
- ▶ 36:50 Alex and Mike Faherty We were going after Stagg in Austin, this awesome store there.
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
- ▶ 2:46 Guy Raz The answer came in a secondhand barbecue trailer that he bought and turned into a single taco truck in Austin.
- ▶ 21:07 Guy Raz Outside of Austin working for Dell. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:33 Guy Raz So it's 2006, and Torchy's Tacos is just a single food truck parked off South First Street in Austin, Texas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:18 Guy Raz So, all right, so you are, you know, on South First Street and in 2007, you get some locals in Austin who want to make an investment and suggest, I guess, help you get a second truck. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:44 Guy Raz Like, this is, this is just on the cusp of Austin, and forgive me, because I, I hate to use this language, but, like, becoming more corporate, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:11 Guy Raz All right, even with these two restaurants, from what I understand, Torchy's was still not profitable, and, and one of the challenges is that when you, you guys are opening more locations in Austin, I think by the end of that year, you had…
- ▶ 1:00:28 Guy Raz Most are in Austin, next came Dallas, and now they've just opened up in Houston.
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Advice Line with Jenn Hyman of Rent The Runway
- ▶ 21:05 Jenn Hyman And so there's an awesome company based out of Austin called Recess, which actually makes pickleball rackets.
Advice Line with Travis Boersma of Dutch Bros
- ▶ 28:37 Yasmin Santos We're currently operating as a cater bar, offering a white glove turnkey solution for events in Austin, San Francisco, and Miami. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Joe Gebbia of Airbnb
- ▶ 7:18 Marina Lido My name is Marina Lido, and I'm calling in from Austin, Texas.
The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
- ▶ 4:50 Sharon Tindell So, I, uh, had a summer internship in Austin, Texas, and it was at the Parks and Recreation Department. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
- ▶ 30:03 Adam Goldberg We used to go to those cities.
Advice Line with Sadie Lincoln of barre3
- ▶ 6:04 Dustin Bowen Uh, so my name's Dustin Bowen, uh, from Austin, Texas. 2 times in the scene
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
- ▶ 6:44 Manish Chandra and I landed up in Austin, Texas. 2 times in the scene
Sonos: John MacFarlane
- ▶ 19:28 unnamed speaker My name is Christina, and I live in Austin, Texas.
3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
- ▶ 15:27 Jason Ballard Like material we used then passed every single test that the city of Austin and every permitting authority and the structural engineers threw at us.
- ▶ 20:40 Jason Ballard And we get to work sort of doing, like, a version two, and so we partnered with a local non-profit called Community First Village here in Austin, which does the most remarkable work I've ever seen with people experiencing chronic…
- ▶ 26:06 Jason Ballard The median house price in Austin, right?
- ▶ 33:27 Jason Ballard Yeah, well, we're definitely after a revolution, and so in the early days, the first time we went into a permitting office in Austin said we'd like a permit to
- ▶ 35:37 Guy Raz You're in Austin.
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
- ▶ 12:15 Tiffany Masterson And he said, uh, his wife and he had been at a wedding in California, and when they were there, somebody walked up to them who knew them, because they owned a little store in Austin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Tiffany Masterson I remember picking up the phone and calling my brother in Austin.
The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
- ▶ 20:10 Dmitri Dolgov And in 2015, he took the first autonomous ride in Austin, Texas. 2 times in the scene
Jack Black Skin Care: Curran and Jeff Dandurand
- ▶ 36:01 Curran Dandurand He lives in Austin.
Orgain: Andrew Abraham
- ▶ 28:26 Andrew Abraham He liked the flavor profile and said, can you come out to Austin? 2 times in the scene
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League
- ▶ 27:58 Guy Raz Um, but you decide to do this in Austin, in Texas, which obviously is an amazing city. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:39 Guy Raz You're, I'm assuming that your value proposition wasn't, hey, we're an art house cinema in Austin, or hey, we're a second run movie theater in Austin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:33 Guy Raz All right, so you've got this one really successful movie theater in Austin. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:33 Guy Raz The first will be run by them and made up of the theaters they already have in Austin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:05 Karrie League Austin, we didn't tell you the story about the food purveyor at Cisco, who knew that we were an impoverished couple that was asking him for samples to develop our menu just so that we would have something to eat.
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
- ▶ 16:09 Lloyd Armbrust You know, it's like local angels in Austin and San Francisco.
Discord: Jason Citron
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
- ▶ 1:05:58 Mac McCaughan I remember Brit from Spoon emailing the day after they played in Austin for the first time, saying, like, I just saw Arcade Fire, and I simultaneously feel like I want to quit music, and, like, I want to start a new band.
Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
- ▶ 49:40 Tyler Toney We were like, we are scamming these people, like, this is incredible, and so we show up, uh, I think it was down around Austin, and they had, like, a couple of, uh, I guess there was, like, a few different videos that we were gonna try and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:40 Cory Cotton And so my brother and I decided to move back to Austin, which is where our parents were living at the time. 2 times in the scene
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 35:39 Guy Raz When we come back, in just a moment, how Gary throws an impromptu party for 500 people in Austin, Texas, and how that party helps him evolve from a wine guy into a marketing guy.
- ▶ 39:39 Gary Vaynerchuk So instead of throwing this wine party in the suite, I charmed the person at the front desk of the Hilton in Austin and said, can I just use this room over here?
How I Built Resilience: Ethan Diamond of Bandcamp
- ▶ 23:26 Ethan Diamond Triggers more people to do that, and when I think about how many artists are on Bandcamp, and it seems inevitable that we'll get to this point where all these, there'll be shows happening constantly, and you'll be able to have that…
Siete Family Foods: Miguel and Veronica Garza
- ▶ 9:47 Guy Raz So you're kind of dealing with these, these health challenges, and, but you still went off to college, you, and you graduated from University of Texas, uh, in Austin, and I think in, in 2003. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:21 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Veronica's tortilla recipe eventually moved out of their mom's kitchen and onto grocery store shelves in Austin.
- ▶ 37:30 Miguel Garza Um, I'm here in Austin, and then I saw, like, if you walk into cafes in this city, or you walk into Whole Foods, and you're,
- ▶ 43:47 Miguel Garza So, twenty-fourteen, finding a gluten-free kitchen, I think there were maybe two in Austin, and we found one that was about probably 10 minutes outside of Austin. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:13 Miguel Garza And people were really excited about it, and we were based out of Austin, so I think there was this added excitement about being local.
- ▶ 1:17:11 Guy Raz And by the way, even though their original family gym G-seven Athletics closed down in 2015, they did open a small gym inside the Siete Foods office in Austin.
How I Built Resilience: Emily Powell of Powell's Books
- ▶ 21:42 Emily Powell Pretty intimately, and I don't want to presume to take my business into, say, Austin, Texas, and know exactly what that community is going to want and be able to, to meet their needs where they are without being there for a good 10 or 20…
How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes
- ▶ 17:29 Steve Holmes Austin, Texas got shut down real quick, and Phyllis, who runs that store, was kind of thinking, okay, what am I going to do?
S'well: Sarah Kauss
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
- ▶ 12:54 Michael Dell Because, you know, my father was a doctor, my older brother was a doctor, and I always thought I'd be a doctor, and, and, uh, when I started going to school, you know, my parents weren't around all the time, right, because I'm, I'm in…
- ▶ 20:48 Michael Dell It was Martin Marietta, which is now part of some much bigger company, and the guy wanted to buy like a 150 of these kits, which was, you know, for us a pretty enormous order, and he wanted to come to Austin and see our factory, right, you…
Outdoor Voices: Tyler Haney
- ▶ 48:32 Tyler Haney Yeah, so we opened our first store in Austin, Texas, which I had been dating someone in Austin while I lived in New York, and visited Austin for the first time, straight from the airport when I landed in Austin, went to a spot called… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:24 Guy Raz Alright, so you've got the store in Austin, but a million dollars is not going to be enough runway.
- ▶ 52:38 Guy Raz You're at your Series A, Lena Dunham's warned your stuff, like, um, you're getting some traction, you gotta shop in Austin, there's Buzz, like, and I think you raised like seven and a half million dollars in that Series A. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:04 Guy Raz And through all this, you also, like, met somebody new in Austin, because I guess you, the person that you, we're saying you guys split up, but you met somebody new, you got married, and you are gonna be a mom.
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
- ▶ 31:10 Lara Merriken So one morning, I was there, because this is also part of what you're asking me, so I was on the early shift at eight a.m., and one of the grocery guys, he said, Lara, the guy you need to meet, he's the regional buyer from Austin, and…
- ▶ 52:57 Guy Raz The company is called Multimorphic, and it's based out of Austin, Texas.
Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
- ▶ 42:39 Blake Mycoskie No, I went back to Austin, Texas, where I originally love Austin, and I'd just gotten married, and so my wife and I 4 times in the scene
Whole Foods Market: John Mackey (2018)
- ▶ 3:28 John Mackey Yeah, my food consciousness awakening really occurred when I was about 23, and I moved into this vegetarian co-op in Austin called Prana House. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:01 Guy Raz Were they just like local hippies in Austin? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:14 Guy Raz In just a moment, after the flood, and how John Mackey took Whole Foods from Austin to Boston, and eventually to almost every state in America.
- ▶ 23:27 John Mackey It was up in North Austin, and it was in the suburbs, kind of away from the, the counterculture community of Austin, and was trying to market to more conventional, you know, suburban people, and it, it, it took a couple of years for that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:30 Guy Raz Um, John, you still, of course, live in Austin, so I'm assuming that now and again you must pass by the location of that Safer Way store.
Betterment: Jon Stein
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken
- ▶ 30:09 Lara Merriken So one morning, I was there, because this is also part of what you're asking me, so I was on the early shift at eight a.m., and one of the grocery guys, he said, Laura, the guy you need to meet, he's the regional buyer from Austin, and…
Dell Computers: Michael Dell
- ▶ 12:42 Michael Dell Because, you know, my father was a doctor, my older brother was a doctor, you know, a lot of my cousins were doctors, and I always thought I'd be a doctor, and, and, uh, when I started going to school, you know, my parents weren't around…
- ▶ 20:57 Michael Dell And he wanted to come to Austin and see our factory, right?
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
- ▶ 42:08 Blake Mycoskie No, I went back to Austin, Texas, where I originally love Austin, and I'd just gotten married, and so my wife and I 4 times in the scene
Whole Foods Market: John Mackey
- ▶ 3:43 John Mackey Yeah, my food consciousness awakening really occurred when I was about 23, and I moved into this vegetarian co-op in Austin called Prana House. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:16 Guy Raz Were they just like local hippies in Austin? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:29 John Mackey It was this old nightclub on a big strip road in Austin, Lamar, that it had burned down to the ground.
- ▶ 18:56 John Mackey The whole Austin kind of counterculture hippie community
- ▶ 21:29 Guy Raz In just a moment, after the flood, and how John Mackey took Whole Foods from Austin to Boston, and eventually to almost every state in America.
- ▶ 37:56 Guy Raz Um, John, you still, of course, live in Austin, so I'm assuming that now and again you must pass by the location of that Safer Way store.
Kendra Scott: Kendra Scott
- ▶ 2:05 Kendra Scott It just was like, you know what, right now this is the most important thing that I need to do, and so dropped out of school, moved to Austin, and was spending, you know, an unbelievable amount of time at MD Anderson in Houston, and that's…
- ▶ 9:08 Kendra Scott So I took some very simple jewelry making classes here in Austin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:25 Kendra Scott It was really exciting because people loved it, um, and it was fun because, you know, here I'm in Austin, I'm just selling to these stores, and then another store in, like, Dallas would hear about it, and I'd, you know, do it for them, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:43 Kendra Scott Um, I can't tell you, like, how many times I got told no, and, and basically kind of laughed at, and told, oh, you're from Austin, Texas, what are you selling, Southwest jewelry? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Guy Raz So you, you decide to, to open a brick and mortar store in Austin, presumably, your first one. 3 times in the scene
Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
- ▶ 11:30 Joe Gebbia We actually had, um, six people put up listings in Austin, and we had two people book those listings. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:02 Joe Gebbia So we learned two things from Austin.