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Figma: Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:59 Dylan Field Yeah, I, um, I met DJ Patil, who later on became the chief data science officer of America under the Obama administration, and DJ, uh, contacted me pretty early in my freshman year and said, hey,

Snap: Evan Spiegel Apr 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:33 Evan Spiegel And we'd be getting all sorts of messages from folks that seemed kind of spammy or suspicious, but Jeremy's Facebook profile, he had a photo of himself and Obama in the profile picture.

Advice Line with Tony Lamb of Kona Ice Jul 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:42 Guy Raz Like you, I remember in, in your episode, you talked about at one point you were, you were driving trucks with advertising and you, you know, you were, you were doing, uh, you know, all kinds of, you know, Obama and McCain and whoever,…

Everlane: Michael Preysman Nov 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:34 Eric Sedrance As an entrepreneur myself, I think back often to them selling Obama and McCain cereal as the definition of an entrepreneurial move in doing whatever it takes to keep your business alive for just one more day.

HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton May 11, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:48 Guy Raz And, um, you ended up working for Obama's first campaign, um, which must've been a pretty amazing experience at the time. 6 times in the scene

The Ringer: Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 41:20 Bill Simmons The catalyst, and I'm not saying I was a hundred percent great in all of this, and that there's some things that I think I could have been more mature about, but the, the first real catalyst was when they canceled the Obama podcast. 4 times in the scene

Noom: Saeju Jeong Aug 8, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:57 Guy Raz It was almost required reading in the Obama White House, and it also had a huge impact on business and marketing.

HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird Jul 7, 2022 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:07 Guy Raz Working, uh, initially for President Obama's, then Senator Obama's presidential campaign, I think at first, right? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:05 Donnel Baird And there's a pattern that I saw as we would head into low income and working communities to persuade them that Barack Obama was their guy and he was going to support their interests and they should turn out.
  • ▶ 14:19 Donnel Baird I mean, when I was working with the Obama folks, I had one of my favorite pastors in Bed-Stuy call me, and he goes, hey, you're working on greening buildings, right?
  • ▶ 18:00 Guy Raz Now, help me understand what that is, because this is not what the Obama administration was doing when you were trying to green buildings or make them more efficient.

Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019) Aug 23, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:18 Guy Raz And President Obama named a new national monument in Maine largely around that land that you, you donated to the National Park Service.

How I Built Resilience: Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement Nov 5, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:50 Varshini Prakash I mean, it was a number of us who were kind of getting activated in the Obama days, right? 2 times in the scene

How I Built Resilience: Live with Deval Patrick Jun 25, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:08 Deval Patrick That's a, that's a path we've been on for some while now that, uh, President Obama, uh, halted if not slowed down and, and President Trump accelerated.

How I Built Resilience: Live with Kevin Hart Jun 11, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:32 Guy Raz Yeah, President Obama spoke earlier today, and he said, he says something really similar, which is that the difference between the demonstrations and the protests today versus the 19 sixties is there's just a really wide, like, swath of…

The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs Sep 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:22 Jim Malone I actually have a picture of Obama eating at one of the Shake Shack tables. 2 times in the scene

Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017) Jun 17, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Guy Raz And about 20 years later, she wound up sitting next to President Barack Obama at the White House, advising him on how to create jobs in America.
  • ▶ 36:05 Mei Xu Um, how cool is it that an alien can sit next to the President of the United States and talk about how to create jobs in America? 2 times in the scene

Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger Jun 10, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:51 Guy Raz Like, you were getting more attention, and you're getting celebrities wearing it, and Gayle King telling Oprah, you gotta try these on, and today Barack Obama wears them.

Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017) May 6, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:40 Guy Raz She dipped her toes into the startup world for a little bit, and then she went to work at the White House during President Obama's first term.

Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:29 Guy Raz And President Obama named a new national monument in Maine, largely around that land that you, you donated to the National Park Service.

Honest Tea: Seth Goldman (2017) Jun 11, 2018 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 20:15 Seth Goldman President Obama had become an honest tea drinker, I guess, at the campaign for 2008. 6 times in the scene

Framebridge: Susan Tynan Nov 27, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:24 Guy Raz She dipped her toes into the startup world for a little bit, and then she went to work at the White House during President Obama's first term.

Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017) Nov 13, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:36 Guy Raz When we come back, how President Obama, Snoop Dogg, and about five hundred million other people started to use Instagram, and what happened after Facebook bought it for a billion dollars.
  • ▶ 19:54 Mike Krieger I think for me, the biggest one was the White House or Obama. 2 times in the scene

AOL: Steve Case Apr 3, 2017 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 27:18 Guy Raz By the way, during the Obama administration, Steve was a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, and that wasn't the first time he'd met Barack Obama. 6 times in the scene

Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 35:32 Mei Xu Um, how cool is it that an alien can sit next to the President of the United States and talk about how to create jobs in America? 3 times in the scene

Virgin: Richard Branson Jan 30, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:54 Guy Raz It's a radio documentary about the controversial Puerto Rican independence fighter Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was given clemency by President Obama just a few days before he left office.

Honest Tea: Seth Goldman Jan 16, 2017 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 19:21 Seth Goldman President Obama had become an honest tea drinker, I guess, at the campaign for 2008. 6 times in the scene

Airbnb: Joe Gebbia Oct 17, 2016 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:23 Joe Gebbia And that's when we had an idea, which was, what if we re-launch this new version of our service, and we do it, ah, at the crest of a tidal wave of press, which in summer of 2008 was Barack Obama. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:49 Joe Gebbia And it's during the peak of Obama versus McCain.

Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:05 Guy Raz When we come back, how President Obama, Snoop Dogg, and about five hundred million other people started to use Instagram, and what happened after Facebook bought it for a billion dollars.
  • ▶ 19:21 Mike Krieger I think for me, the biggest one was the White House or Obama. 4 times in the scene
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