Best Buy, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 8Sir James Dyson 6John MacFarlane 3Marc Merrill 2Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) 2Blake Mycoskie 2William Wang 1Max Levchin 1Marc Lore 1Jimmy Fallon 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Best Buy comes up
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company.
- ▶ 58:30 unnamed speaker Yeah, you're absolutely right, and we've had many big companies try and compete against us, and they've gotten in the business and out, whether it's Circuit City or Best Buy or, now, we're not naive.
Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
- ▶ 25:35 Hernán López I mean, Best Buy perhaps, but there, there isn't a brand where people could go and discover your product, and without seeing it in action, understanding what it does.
Vizio: William Wang
- ▶ 45:44 William Wang They give Costco the, the leftovers because it's, ah, they want to protect their existing dealership with Circuit City and Best Buy.
Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann
Sonos: John MacFarlane
- ▶ 30:44 John MacFarlane You could buy it directly from us, and by the end of the year, we were in Best Buys. 3 times in the scene
Etsy: Rob Kalin
Vuori: Joe Kudla
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
Roku: Anthony Wood
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
HIBT Lab! Wonder: Marc Lore
The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
- ▶ 53:01 Jimmy Fallon Best Buy got a tripod that held iPhones, and then just started doing stuff, and putting, I asked NBC if I could put things on YouTube with, like, a website of a charity, and I just filmed more and more, like, hours of stuff, and just send…
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 1:19:13 Max Levchin So maybe you'd go into a Best Buy and you use PayPal to buy things from the shelves instead of from the virtual ones and signing up all these partners outside of eBay.
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 50:11 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) And I had fans going to Best Buys, having to have the workers there go to the back and take it out of the box because our label didn't believe in us enough to even buy shelf space.
Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill
- ▶ 28:22 Marc Merrill We brought him on to the company, I think in either December, six or January, seven, but he was working at Best Buy, uh, in Wisconsin and was in college studying computer science. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:48 Guy Raz This freemium model is, is, is, you know, multiplayer only, and direct-to-consumer model is not going to work, but you were not going to make a game that you would buy at Best Buy off the shelf. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:28 Guy Raz Oh, you could, you could go to a Best Buy, you could go to a store and buy the game?
Fitbit: James Park
Dyson: James Dyson (2018)
- ▶ 32:59 Sir James Dyson A junior buyer at Best Buy took one of our vacuum cleaners home for a couple of weeks and said to her boss, look, it actually is what he says it is. 3 times in the scene
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou
- ▶ 48:50 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) They didn't believe in us so much that they undershipped my album, and you had all these other huge artists with, you know, 400,000 plus CDs in stores, and I had fans going to Best Buys, having to
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
- ▶ 8:17 Blake Mycoskie No, like, available at Best Buy for nine 99.
Dyson: James Dyson
- ▶ 31:59 Sir James Dyson And then, um, a junior buyer at Best Buy took one of our vacuum cleaners home for a couple of weeks and said to her boss, look, it actually is what he says it is. 3 times in the scene
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
- ▶ 7:47 Blake Mycoskie No, like, available at Best Buy for nine 99.