Bob Taylor
12 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 26, 2026 by Bob Taylor · across every show →
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Jan 26, 2026
Jan 26, 2026 positive
Taylor: Evening toolmaking shifts prevented manufacturing from repeating daily friction
“I really, literally would work two days a day. The first day was guitar making, and then the second day, the evening shift, was making some kind of tool So that the next time I did that job, it was a little bit easier.”
Jan 26, 2026 positive
Taylor: Bob Taylor gifted Taylor Swift her iconic koi fish acoustic guitar
“Well, what happened is we started a we started a series called the Gallery Series, and the first guitar I made, I named it Living Jewels, and I had koi fish swimming around it, and we had this relationship with Taylor, and her birthday is just before Christmas…”
Jan 26, 2026 positive
Taylor: Founders must purposefully transition company ownership before they die
“And I always, one of my sayings is invest in the inevitable. And one thing that's inevitable is I'm going to die. Yep. That's inevitable. And so I'm going to sell this company, my shares of it by accident when I die or on purpose before that. ... And so knowin…”
Jan 26, 2026
Jan 26, 2026 positive
Taylor: Switching to single-piece flow assembly saved Taylor Guitars' cash flow
“They move down the line and we've run our company that way. That's how I learned about working capital. That's how I learned about just in time. That's how I learned about, you know, cashflow. So that made all the difference for us. It was a huge, huge thing.”
Jan 26, 2026
Taylor: Manufacturing founders often sell at 45 employees due to management fatigue
“Somewhere back then, I read that when you have maybe a founder-run company where you're making something, most companies get sold at around 45 or 50 employees. That's when the owner is starting to feel like they're just babysitting all day long.”
Jan 26, 2026 neutral
Jan 26, 2026 bullish
Jan 26, 2026 positive
Listug: Rebranded from Westland Music because Bob Taylor was the main talent
“Then a few years into it, when we realized our future was really an In making and selling guitars, and Bob was really the talent, then we, you know, we decided to call the guitars Taylor Guitars, and we added a little Taylor underneath the neck on the little l…”
Jan 26, 2026
Jan 26, 2026 positive
Taylor: Excessive manual crafting time does not make better acoustic guitars
“That's when I figured out not to make love to every guitar that I'm building. I'm production-minded. I like to get it done, and come out with a good guitar, you know, at the end, and the amount of time that you stroke it isn't the key factor there.”