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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Australia comes up
Advice Line with Daymond John of FUBU
- ▶ 20:34 unnamed speaker I'm based in Ballina, New South Wales, Australia, and along with my wife, Jess, we are the founders of Raised Nutrition. 4 times in the scene
YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
- ▶ 29:54 Roy Seiders And I found this factory in the Philippines that was making a cooler for the Australian market, and I reached out to this manufacturer in advance of our Thailand trip, and I said, hey, we're going to be over in Southeast Asia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:18 Roy Seiders And he is already building a cooler for the Australian market.
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 47:47 Aman Narang We've got a team there in Australia.
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
- ▶ 31:57 Joey Shamah I remember one from Australia and one from, um, the UK actually in, in Wales.
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
- ▶ 19:55 Peter Andrews That's bringing together winemakers from not just South Africa, but California and France and even Australia this year.
Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
- ▶ 0:50 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Brian Smith brought Australian sheepskin boots to America that turned Uggs into a multi-billion dollar brand. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:26 Guy Raz Brian was born in Canberra, Australia, right after World War II.
- ▶ 4:16 Brian Smith But, um, all my friends told me, it's such a bad area, Brian, don't go there, and, and I'm this dumb Australian, thinks, ah, they'll like me, I'm an Aussie, you know, but it turned out that all, all the houses in that area had bars on the…
- ▶ 6:47 Brian Smith Yeah, and I was really literally on a search for something to take back to Australia. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:46 Brian Smith And that sounds logical, but Australia's climate is identical to California, so that wasn't the real answer, and so, you know, as an entrepreneur, you have to pivot when you hit a wall like that, and I thought, well, the, well, maybe the…
- ▶ 12:44 Brian Smith You know, me talking about how big it was in Australia and everything, but so we raised this 20,000 dollars, and we knew we would never, ever, ever need any more money than that, you know, for the rest of the business.
- ▶ 16:49 Guy Raz Were surfers in Australia wearing these wool boots because they wanted to warm up their feet after they surf? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:39 Guy Raz Uh, which was not a trademark, I mean, in, in Australia, it was just like.
- ▶ 30:39 Guy Raz A manufacturer in Australia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:14 Brian Smith Made in Australia, yes.
- ▶ 57:56 Brian Smith I called Gordon in Australia at the tannery.
- ▶ 1:26:26 Brian Smith I, and again, I had that vision behind me of, of the Australian acceptance of the product.
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur
- ▶ 18:47 Marnie Shanahan My name's Marnie, and I'm calling from a little coastal town on the east coast in Australia. 3 times in the scene
KIND bars: Daniel Lubetzky. From peace in the Middle East to a $5 billion snack bar
- ▶ 30:25 Daniel Lubetzky And we plead to them to not do so, but they don't care because in Australia they sell predominantly to convenience stores.
- ▶ 35:44 Daniel Lubetzky And so we went with relationships with Peter that were willing to do it for us in Australia. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
- ▶ 32:11 Eric Poulain I'm based in Sydney, Australia, so down under, and along with my wife, I co-founded an organic gluten-free sports nutrition company called Maple Rue. 7 times in the scene
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 31:15 Chris McElroy We sell in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Europe.
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
- ▶ 30:57 Tess Milholen Yeah, so I solo backpacked through Australia in 2017 after I got out of college.
Advice Line with Randy Hetrick of TRX
- ▶ 23:38 Kerry Jones So we are a, so meat pies in Australia are very iconic. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line: Playing to Your Strengths
- ▶ 2:00 Honor Elliot Hello, I am Anna, and I'm an Aussie, and my brand is Dosey, and we make beautiful pill organizers because pill takers deserve pretty things too. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge
- ▶ 18:23 Nick Kelly Uh, I was in Sydney, Australia for about six years prior to that. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line: Scaling Strategies
- ▶ 32:30 Peter Houck In, you know, Australia, or Canada, or the UK, or wherever.
Advice Line with Richard Branson of Virgin
- ▶ 25:50 Richard Branson So, I mean, when I turned up in Australia to launch Virgin Mobile, um, they drove me from Sydney out to a field, and there was a helicopter there, and, uh, and I thought, oh, well, that's nice.
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 45:55 Niklas Zennström You know, think about that if you, you say that you're, like, you're in San Francisco, and you have relatives in Australia. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon
- ▶ 28:03 Jack Conte Bo Miles, who's an amazing filmmaker on YouTube, um, is going all over Australia where he lives and renting theaters and selling out 1400 person theaters and screening his YouTube videos and doing Q&As with his fans.
Noosa Yoghurt: Koel Thomae
- ▶ 1:04 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Coel Tomei discovered a delicious passion fruit yogurt in an Australian beach town, became obsessed with bringing it to the U.S., and built Noosa into a major yogurt brand. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 Guy Raz I guess you're in Boulder and, and around 2005, from what I understand, you, uh, you go to Australia with your new boyfriend at the time, a guy named Tate. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Guy Raz And so you would have been saying to me, oh, the Australian yogurt,
- ▶ 11:41 Guy Raz You go back to Australia in 2007 for another family visit, but this time you go back with the idea of making an appointment of meeting the owners of this Queensland yogurt company.
- ▶ 15:36 Koel Thomae yogurt, as I realized, very different industry from the U.S. to Australia, like way more regulated in the U.S.
- ▶ 20:18 Guy Raz You're like, it's in Australia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:14 Guy Raz Like, this is worth zero dollars and zero cents, and you know that the partners in Australia are willing to put some, some money in and, but in exchange for ownership. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:50 Guy Raz In Australia, the Mathewson family is handling the recipe, and in Colorado, Rob Graves, the dairy farmer, he's getting ready to make it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:43 Koel Thomae Yeah, so by this point, we've, um, you know, we've invested in the equipment, we've invested in the packaging, and, you know, with the packaging, we really wanted it to be reflective of that first experience I had in Australia, which was… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:49 Guy Raz It was you, there was Rob at the dairy, and then the brothers, the Mathewson family in Australia, who actually was the decision maker?
- ▶ 1:04:33 Guy Raz Um, when you think about, about the journey you took, you know, and, and I mean, starting this business in Boulder, thinking it was going to be like a local business and getting the family in Australia to work with you and, and meeting Rob…
Advice Line with Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
Advice Line with Michael Preysman of Everlane
- ▶ 18:53 Anna Babich I'm calling from Bondi in Sydney, Australia.
- ▶ 31:44 Guy Raz It's east coast of Australia. 2 times in the scene
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 3:22 Guy Raz It was built by a team out of Australia led by Rod Cuthbert back in the late 19 nineties. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:53 Rod Cuthbert Yeah, so at the time that that sort of web explosion was happening, Microsoft decided to launch this network in Australia.
- ▶ 15:57 Guy Raz Was, was this person based in the US or, or in Australia? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:00 Rod Cuthbert There was no particular reason why Sabre, based in Dallas, Texas, should contract with a company in Sydney, Australia.
- ▶ 31:55 Guy Raz I want to just digress for a moment and ask about Australia as a, you know, as a, as a place from which to launch this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:23 Rod Cuthbert A product manager, her name was Dominique Exman, a young Australian woman who, who was managing our, our key European locations, and she was in Rome talking to one of the, the tour operators we worked with there about the Vatican Museum,…
- ▶ 45:03 Guy Raz Just to be clear, uh, could you do this in Australia? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:50 Guy Raz And it's based in Australia?
- ▶ 1:07:31 Guy Raz By the way, Rod now sits on the tourism board for his home state of Tasmania, Australia.
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
- ▶ 17:32 Sean Sereckli My name's Sean Sereckli, and I'm from Sydney, Australia, and I'm delighted to be here talking to you today. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Ariel Kaye of Parachute Home
- ▶ 5:19 Dane Brown I'm calling from the Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia. 8 times in the scene
Banana Republic: Mel and Patricia Ziegler
- ▶ 13:28 Patricia Ziegler But right about that time you got the assignment to go to Australia.
- ▶ 51:44 Patricia Ziegler Um, one of our trips over there, as we're going through, I see, out of the corner of my eye, this pile of khaki that almost looks like the same fabric as his original jacket that he brought back from Australia.
“Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto
- ▶ 21:42 David Nussbaum He had a, a keynote speech to give on stage in Sydney, Australia, 8000 miles away from where he lives.
MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
- ▶ 1:05:49 Isaac Larian Yeah, Pixel Zoo in Australia, and I bought, I bought actually, I bought Zap, which is a German company, I bought Little Tykes.
Weee!: Larry Liu
Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
- ▶ 11:13 Gene Berdachevsky So some of it gets extracted, let's say, in Australia, but then it gets shipped to China to process.
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,… 2 times in the scene
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo
CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman
Priority Bicycles: Dave Weiner
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- ▶ 6:12 Guy Raz Okay, so I, I guess after high school, Lyndon, I read that you, you took sort of an extended trip to, to Australia, um, and you worked at a, at a cycling shop for a while in, in Melbourne.
- ▶ 9:09 Guy Raz Um, Lyndon, you, when you left Australia, I guess you, you, uh, came back to Canada, and then you ended up working as, like, a sales rep, I guess, for Vans, for the, for the shoe company, uh, and, and Jamie, you, you moved on, you started…
- ▶ 52:27 Jamie Cormack Um, some great relationships Linden had in Australia and New Zealand, allowed us to open them year two into the business.
Freshpet: Scott Morris
- ▶ 16:38 Scott Morris And then Kahul, um, was not at Meow Mix, but John had worked with him in Australia, actually, and they had seen fresh pet food. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:50 Guy Raz Eight Sleep currently ships within the USA, Canada, the UK, select countries in the EU, and Australia.
Manduka: Peter Sterios
- ▶ 14:26 Peter Sterios Powerful, and also controversial, um, teachers of yoga, Western teachers of yoga, who lived at the time I met him in Australia, and he would come to New Zealand, uh, twice a year. 3 times in the scene
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
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.
Zumiez: Tom Campion
Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali
- ▶ 51:57 Rashid Ali And we ended up landing on a partner in Australia, in both Melbourne, Australia and Tasmania. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:37 Guy Raz And this is frozen meat just being shipped from Australia at this point.
HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker
- ▶ 18:34 Sara Menker So major producing regions, the US, Brazil, China, Australia, I mean, year after year for the last
HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko
- ▶ 22:43 Paul Eremenko And two of the leading green hydrogen producers in the world are investors in our company, Fortescue Future Industries out of Australia and Plug Power out of New York.
Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
- ▶ 48:49 Shazi Visram I saw a pouch of a sauce at a trade show in, uh, Melbourne, Australia, and then I started seeing.
HIBT Lab! Google: Sundar Pichai
HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
- ▶ 10:08 Aryé Elfenbein Rare vacations that they would, um, give us in residency and went back to my, uh, childhood home of Australia and was in the, the far north parts and, um, where there used to be a lot of rainforest, a lot more than there is right now.
HIBT Lab! ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
- ▶ 7:46 Payal Kadakia When I went out to Singapore and I saw people working out, right, or going out to Hong Kong or Australia, and I realized that we had built a product that wasn't about, you know, one demographic or wasn't a trend.
PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
- ▶ 4:02 Guy Raz Anyway, Shan was born in Singapore, but grew up in Sydney, Australia, in the 19 eighties and nineties.
- ▶ 5:23 Shan-Lyn Ma On top of that, I spent a lot of time, you know, growing up in Australia, as many first-generation immigrant kids do, wishing that I was like everyone else.
- ▶ 7:41 Guy Raz When you, when you were thinking about university, um, did you in, in your mind imagine that one day you would be in the United States, that Australia wasn't where you were gonna, you were gonna build your life? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:57 Guy Raz When you think about your journey from like, you know, kid in Australia to here you are, you're running a company value of over six hundred million dollars, probably more.
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson (2019)
- ▶ 14:59 Andy Puddicombe And I remember eventually, uh, a teacher from Australia coming and he said, look, honestly, he said, if you want to kind of go and do like a year retreat or a two year retreat or something like that, he said, I'd probably try and do it in…
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
How I Built Resilience: Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola
Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019)
- ▶ 4:07 Melanie Perkins But at that point in time, I was 19, and I had no business experience, and so rather than trying to take on the entire world of design, all these really big companies, we decided to take on school yearbooks in Australia.
- ▶ 25:05 Guy Raz but I, you know, it looks interesting, but you guys are way in Australia. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:11 Guy Raz Um, you know, given that you are, like, one of the first Australian unicorns, right, I don't know, does that increase the pressure on you, or does it, are you just super proud of it and, you know, just carry on?
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