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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bonobos comes up
Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit
- ▶ 5:47 Chris Riccobono Now, it would be a lot more challenging because my cost of acquisition on, on Facebook, when it was us, Casper and Bonobos, I think, and maybe Warby Parker back in 2011, it was a lot easier.
diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
- ▶ 42:59 Neil Blumenthal Um, you know, speaking with the founders of Bonobos, for example, who were
UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
- ▶ 1:06 Guy Raz Joining me this week is Andy Dunn, the co-founder of the menswear company Bonobos, and the founder of a new social app called Pi, which is focused on bringing people together in real life. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:36 Guy Raz You are on with, uh, me and Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:40 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos and a new social app called Pi. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:21 Guy Raz You're on with Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos.
- ▶ 44:51 Andy Dunn Like Ipponobos, we didn't do a layoff until our 12th year. 4 times in the scene
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- ▶ 14:09 Scott Tannen And I started to realize, you know, that, that brought me like eye to eye with brands like Bonobos that were just starting at the time and looking at how they found one thing. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Burn Rate: Andy Dunn
- ▶ 0:04 Guy Raz Today, we've got a return guest, Andy Dunn, the co-founder of the multi-million dollar menswear company, Bonobos. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42 Guy Raz We last left off, uh, you had sold Bonobos to Walmart. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:05 Guy Raz And I guess you spent much of 20 20 really putting this book together, Burn Rate, which is about a lot about bonobos, but also about your mental health struggles. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:33 Guy Raz We're gonna be right back in just a moment with Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos and author of Burn Rate.
- ▶ 20:59 Guy Raz I'm with Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos and author of the new book Burn Rate, um, about Andy's struggles with mental health. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:42 Guy Raz I mean, meantime, you are still ostensibly running Bonobos, dealing with the, um, conversations around acquisition.
- ▶ 35:52 Guy Raz Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos, author of the new book, Burn Rate.
Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
- ▶ 0:37 Guy Raz This week, it's my conversation with Andy Dunn, the co-founder of Bonobos.
- ▶ 1:36 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Andy Dunn realized that men would shop in a clothing store without any clothing in it, and built a multi-million dollar fashion brand, Bonobos.
- ▶ 2:43 Guy Raz And they turned this idea into a giant company, Bonobos, which in 2017, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:46 Andy Dunn And we got to the end of the project, and the guy who was the professor overseeding it, a guy named Joel Peterson, who would factor in meaningfully into bonobos, said, I think this is a bad idea.
- ▶ 11:48 Andy Dunn So he, he funded Bonobos in those early days, and then he turned the, the pants that he was making into sales by selling them to our classmates.
- ▶ 12:55 Andy Dunn So, I can remember sitting in class one day, and on a post-it note, I was sitting next to Brian, and he had different ideas for, he had ideas for what to call the pants, and one of the ideas said, bonobos, B-O-N-O-B-O-S, and I said, what's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:44 Andy Dunn It's an awesome question because the, you know, the inside of Bonobos
- ▶ 22:27 Andy Dunn The guy who helped me build the website for what was then called BonobosPants.com over the summer, I can remember, he drove me to the airport with two suitcases. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:40 Andy Dunn It was a little different than that, in that I thought, you know, Bonobos is gonna make it, and it's gotta make it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:51 Andy Dunn I mean, he gifted the company that he had originally conceived of. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:56 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Andy kept bonobos alive, despite mistake after mistake after mistake.
- ▶ 36:40 Guy Raz His co-founder, Brian Spaley, left the company, and Andy is now alone at the top. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:16 Guy Raz Aside from raising money, you were still running a company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:55 Guy Raz Yeah, so I guess, I guess we, we should explain this for people who have not been in a shop, because I've been to a guide shop.
- ▶ 48:23 Andy Dunn And I made the case, and this is to people that funded the company with a view of e-commerce being at the core, that our company was actually not an e-commerce company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:26 Guy Raz When we come back after the break, how Andy's clothing stores with no clothing began to bring more money to the business, and how he handled the anxious mood at Bonobos when word leaked out that Walmart wanted to buy them.
- ▶ 55:50 Andy Dunn I was at a wedding and I was talking to a friend and he knew one of our angel investors and that angel investor said, you know, Bonobos is great, but I wonder if I'll ever, I'll ever get paid. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:49 Andy Dunn Walmart acquiring Bonobos, I get it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:25 Guy Raz Andy, um, there's a big difference in going into Walmart and buying a pair of jeans and going and buying bonobos. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:42 Guy Raz Andy, I always ask this question, or most often ask this question, um, um, to the people I interview, which is how much of what happened to you and, and the creation of bonobos and its success was because of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:41 Guy Raz That's Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos. 2 times in the scene
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur (2020)
- ▶ 22:27 Sarah LaFleur Like, I knew through the grapevine, um, you know, the Bonobos founders, Warby Parker founders, both worked at Bain, um, and
- ▶ 41:23 Guy Raz You, you're talking about other companies like Bonobos and Warby Parker, and these are e-commerce companies, right?
Casper: Philip Krim
Diapers.com & Jet.com: Marc Lore
Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth
Hinge: Justin McLeod
Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
- ▶ 51:16 Joel Clark It's like, you know, I was listening to one of your other episodes and Andy Dunn from Bonobos said it, man, he said it better than I could have.
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur
- ▶ 24:04 Sarah LaFleur Like, I knew through the grapevine, um, you know, the Bonobos founders, Warby Parker founders, both worked at Bain, um, and
- ▶ 43:00 Guy Raz You, you're talking about other companies like Bonobos and Warby Parker, and these are e-commerce companies, right?
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
- ▶ 40:41 Tristan Walker Bonobos, right, like that sort of thing.
Bonobos: Andy Dunn
- ▶ 0:48 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Andy Dunn took failure and self-awareness to a new level to build a multi-million dollar men's fashion brand, Bonobos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:00 Andy Dunn And we got to the end of the project, and the guy who was the professor overseeding it, a guy named Joel Peterson, who would factor in meaningfully into bonobos, said, I think this is a bad idea.
- ▶ 11:03 Andy Dunn So he, he funded Bonobos in those early days, and then he turned the, the pants that he was making into sales by selling them to our classmates.
- ▶ 12:10 Andy Dunn So, I can remember sitting in class one day, and on a post-it note, I was sitting next to Brian, and he had different ideas for, he had ideas for what to call the pants, and one of the ideas said, bonobos, B-O-N-O-B-O-S, and I said, what's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 Andy Dunn It's an awesome question because the, you know, the inside of Bonobos 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:12 Andy Dunn So as New York professionals, you know, guys in advertising, or startups, or finance, who were in Michael's network, who came to this event, and I'll never forget this, seven guys bought three pairs of pants, six guys bought two pairs of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:22 Andy Dunn There was a little bit of flair and verve to it, and that also created a bit of virality, you know, the name was interesting, the story of these non-fashion guys, so we properly launched BonobosPants.com in October of oh seven, and we did…
- ▶ 30:06 Andy Dunn It was a little different than that, in that I thought, you know, Bonobos is gonna make it, and it's gotta make it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:21 Andy Dunn I mean, he gifted the company that he had originally conceived of. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:26 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Andy kept bonobos alive, despite mistake after mistake after mistake.
- ▶ 36:07 Guy Raz His co-founder, Brian Spaley, left the company, and Andy is now alone at the top. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:43 Guy Raz Aside from raising money, you were still running a company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:35 Guy Raz First of all, was the company profitable? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:05 Guy Raz Um, as you saw the value of the company go up, but your cut of it, you know, going down, did you, did you care or did you say, you know, at a certain point, I mean, a certain number is just a number, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:31 Andy Dunn I was at a wedding, and I was talking to a friend, and he knew one of our angel investors, and that angel investor said, you know, Bonobos is great, but I wonder if I'll ever, I'll ever get paid, and I think at that point he'd invested… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:29 Andy Dunn With no context, Walmart acquiring Bonobos, I get it. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:25 Guy Raz Andy, I always ask this question, or most often ask this question, um, um, to the people I interview, which is, how much of what happened to you and, and the creation of bonobos and its success was because of, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:29 Guy Raz Andy Dunn, co-founder of Bonobos. 3 times in the scene
Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
- ▶ 34:06 Emily Weiss She invested in Warby Parker, she invested in Bonobos, um, she invested most recently in Away.