Barack Obama, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 30Seth Goldman 12Mike Krieger 6Mei Xu 5Joe Gebbia 5Bill Simmons 4Varshini Prakash 2Jim Malone 2Donnel Baird 2Evan Spiegel 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Barack Obama comes up
Figma: Dylan Field
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Everlane: Michael Preysman
- ▶ 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
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 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
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 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)
How I Built Resilience: Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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
Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017)
Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Honest Tea: Seth Goldman (2017)
- ▶ 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
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
- ▶ 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
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Virgin: Richard Branson
Honest Tea: Seth Goldman
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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