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Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 3:45 Guy Raz In 2006, after graduating from MIT with a master's degree in computer science, he started working in Boston at a tech company called Endeka.
- ▶ 6:06 Aman Narang We, uh, it started off with, like, we built these e-commerce apps for some local brands, like ShoeBuy.com, which is a Boston brand, and a bunch of other
- ▶ 10:05 Aman Narang It became a lot more real, um, and so there was this bar downstairs from where we used to, to work, um, this is in Kendall Square in the Boston area.
- ▶ 18:43 Aman Narang And as part of that experience, we got to know a lot of the restaurant tours in Boston and Cambridge.
- ▶ 35:04 Aman Narang And, you know, an example of that is just, I remember one of our early customers in Boston was this restaurant and nightclub.
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
- ▶ 1:07:27 Brian Smith For the youth hockey players, which were all over, you know, from Chicago all the way back to Boston, and that turned out to be a huge market, and the big department stores now are seeing this happen, and so they started calling me to, you…
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
- ▶ 30:51 Melissa Bermudez We're really close to Boston.
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
- ▶ 13:24 Gregg Renfrew We were opening other stores, and we did in Boston.
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
- ▶ 37:27 Shep Murray The next one was a great store in Boston called Zera, and it was run by one guy, and he carried beautiful clothes, and he sort of laughed at us when we came in with our ties and our little plastic sleeves.
- ▶ 50:21 Guy Raz So I'm wondering just that, like, wouldn't it have made more sense to open it in Boston, you know, rather than on Martha's Vineyard, even though
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
- ▶ 53:51 Antonio Swad He brought in some guys from, I believe they were out of Boston, and they were at SBIC, you know, Small Business Investment Corporation, a division of, funded by the SBA, and I had had great success building this company with SBA money.
- ▶ 57:18 Antonio Swad They bring in some of these Boston guys.
Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork
- ▶ 31:23 Lee Wright I'm near Boston in Marlboro, and I'm the founder of The History List Store.
Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
- ▶ 7:30 Guy Raz I read that you actually did not, you kind of dropped out of the University of Cincinnati early, and that, when you were taking that trip, so you did not graduate, um, but you did eventually, somehow, and a year later, I guess, 1969, end…
- ▶ 7:48 Guy Raz And while you're in Boston, you open another business, you had an earring business, of course, in Cincinnati, 3 times in the scene
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- ▶ 19:30 Sal Khan This guy, Dan Wohl, based in, in Boston, who was apparently kind of getting his hedge fund off the ground, and Dan at the time was 32 years old, I think, or 33 years old, and, um, I interviewed with him, and he hired me, and he later told…
- ▶ 21:10 Guy Raz I mean, you're working there in Boston, and I guess this is around, like, the story, I guess, that I've heard is that your sister's daughter has, is, like, having trouble with math. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:32 Mindy Horwitz One day I saw a parent from Boston advising a parent from Florida about the best dermatologist in St.
Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift
Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
- ▶ 2:22 Guy Raz I mean, you talk about how you started out as a social worker, you were in Washington, D.C., and then you moved around a bit, and then you tried a bunch of different things, and then you and your partner at the time, Mark, you decided to…
- ▶ 22:19 Alex Hildebrandt My name's Alex Hildebrandt, and I live in Boston, but I'm currently in New York City, where I spend a lot of time for my business. 2 times in the scene
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
- ▶ 56:48 Guy Raz I think by 20 18 you had seven stores, stores in Boston, Nantucket, you had a store in New York, and then you had Malibu. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:11 Alex and Mike Faherty You know, close all your New York City stores, all your Boston stores, and just, like, walk away.
WHOOP: Will Ahmed
- ▶ 11:22 Will Ahmed And I started meeting with engineering labs in, in Boston, um, and in Cambridge.
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya (2022)
- ▶ 9:55 Hamdi Ulukaya So she opened this map, and she was telling me, and I remember like yesterday, oh, I have school in Boston,
- ▶ 33:58 Hamdi Ulukaya Uh, so that means that I have to go between Boston or New Hampshire or Maine to all the way down to Florida and eastwise, maybe Detroit and Chicago and find all these small distributors that would buy one or two pallets a month.
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 8:23 Josh Hochschuler And because I spoke English, there was a lot of presentations that had to be made in English to corporate from Boston, and so they liked having me there to help the C-suite of Argentina to go through the English parts of it, so they all…
- ▶ 11:38 Josh Hochschuler In Boston. 3 times in the scene
UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
- ▶ 19:23 Chris Riccobono This one, he's in an airport in Boston.
Vizio: William Wang
- ▶ 25:06 William Wang We, we found a software company in Boston to do, to
Advice Line with Jeni Britton of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
- ▶ 18:32 Casey White My name's Casey White, and I'm calling from Boston, Massachusetts, and I'm the co-founder of Jaju Pierogi, and we, uh, specialize in high-quality Polish dumplings, so producing high-quality Polish dumplings at scale using our grandfather's…
Advice Line with Jenn Hyman of Rent The Runway
- ▶ 11:15 Sarah Bell I, I will say that we were featured recently on a, a local Boston news station made in mass, and we had a huge surge in not only traffic to our website, but orders from that.
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
- ▶ 47:06 Michelle Wahler And I was like, we are not going to ship because can you imagine being that studio in Boston and you can't open your doors and all of the sudden you've got Beyond Yoga product landing on your doorstep and you might not be able to even…
Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
- ▶ 3:20 Steve Case And we started this effort, uh, a decade ago when we launched Rise of the Rest, started doing, you know, bus tours around the country, then launched, uh, investment fund, which made now 200 investments in a hundred different, different…
Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica
- ▶ 22:19 Molly Brubaker Our studios are located in Portland, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts, with the hope 8 times in the scene
Noosa Yoghurt: Koel Thomae
Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball
- ▶ 18:42 Cindy Chin Smith I'm calling in from the Boston, Massachusetts area. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Angie Hicks of Angi
- ▶ 21:14 Diane O'Connor We are a Boston-based e-commerce platform that is seeking to change the way that people open their wallet and shop online.
21 Seeds: Kat Hantas
Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
- ▶ 10:21 James Hirschfeld It's really cold in Boston in the springtime.
- ▶ 16:13 James Hirschfeld Um, we were kind of hard negotiators, but we, you know, the first people we brought in were a design firm in Boston that kind of helped us create wireframes in a flow.
- ▶ 22:32 James Hirschfeld I was coming back and forth from, from Boston to, to, to go to meetings and try to get on the radar of these investors.
Lily’s Sweets: Cynthia Tice
- ▶ 7:52 Cynthia Tice Um, there was bread and circus that existed in, you know, in Boston.
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
- ▶ 4:02 Leah Solivan I mean, we were this tiny company in Boston for, you know, almost two years before we even opened the San Francisco market.
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
Insomnia Cookies: Seth Berkowitz
- ▶ 5:22 Seth Berkowitz I joined the school newspaper, um, and I started dating somebody who was in Boston, so I was traveling quite a bit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Seth Berkowitz I think I looked, I looked around in my sophomore year, I'm traveling back and forth up to Boston, and life starts to seem like I'm, I'm at this point in time where,
- ▶ 18:27 Seth Berkowitz He knew me well enough to know, you know, I was dating Rebecca and was up in Boston every other weekend or so.
- ▶ 23:10 Guy Raz Like first we're going to go to Boston and then we're going to go to specific college towns. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
Advice Line with Joe Kudla of Vuori
- ▶ 19:44 Brendan McEvoy Um, and we met some boutiques there and we've had good success with them from Philadelphia, Boston, New York.
Ouidad hair products: Ouidad Wise
- ▶ 52:32 Ouidad Wise Every once in a while we would have a particular company out of Boston would reach out to us and talk to us and tell us what they could do with us and help us grow the business.
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- ▶ 41:23 Bayard Winthrop He just emailed me two days ago, said he was going to go to our store in Boston.
Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
- ▶ 33:06 Peter Dreissigacker Well, the first thing we did was, there was a national master's rowing race in Boston that year. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:32 Guy Raz They even compete at the famous Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, where they row with other over-seventies in a boat called the Motley Crue.
Mythical: Rhett and Link
Whole30: Melissa Urban
Weee!: Larry Liu
Etsy: Rob Kalin
Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- ▶ 39:59 Lyndon Cormack Uh, we, uh, we got to meet a whole bunch of the best sort of sneaker shops, uh, that were started, you know, uh, ones that come into mind is, uh, Bodega in Boston was, uh, one of the first people we got to meet.
Yasso: Amanda Klane and Drew Harrington
- ▶ 1:07 Drew Harrington We had an office space in Boston, and we walk into the conference room, and across this small alleyway was a billboard that said, introducing Ben & Jerry's
- ▶ 2:38 Guy Raz Two childhood friends in Boston realized you could do a lot with Greek yogurt. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:44 Guy Raz Um, and I guess you moved back to Boston from Washington, D.C., and, like, start working, like, doing project management at a construction company.
- ▶ 14:31 Drew Harrington I believe it was for the holiday season at Spencer's, so what we tried to do is we put them into a large warehouse in Boston, bought blue tape, and tried to cover up every hole, which was obviously labor intensive and costly, and…
- ▶ 23:00 Drew Harrington And it was in the middle of summer, and everyone was tasting it, and just like, only Boston friends and family could do.
- ▶ 27:33 Guy Raz You guys didn't, like, rush back to Boston and were like, let's do it.
- ▶ 50:04 Amanda Klane And I'll never forget it, because it was Marathon Monday in Boston, and I had left the office to go watch a little of the race, and like, the second I got there, I get the phone call from the trucking company, and I was like,
- ▶ 55:55 Amanda Klane It started out as a one bedroom apartment in Boston that we all worked out of, and then eventually we got a little bit larger space that housed about 10 of us.
- ▶ 59:47 Drew Harrington We had an office space in Boston, and every Friday morning we would host these little breakfasts where everyone had good energy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:58 Drew Harrington Cass and A are partners based here in Boston.
Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
- ▶ 27:49 Kyle Clark Like if it's going from Hartford to Boston or New York to, to, to Hoboken. 3 times in the scene
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
- ▶ 5:25 Guy Raz Jeff Rader and Andy Katz Mayfield grew up three towns away from each other in the suburbs of Boston, but they didn't meet until around 2004 when they were both still in college and wound up in the same internship program at the consulting…
- ▶ 10:42 Jeff Raider Charles Banks main offices are in Boston, um, where I grew up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 Jeff Raider I remember we had lunch, I think, in Boston, like, 2010, early 2011, and, uh, I think at that point, it was kind of like a year into Charles Bank, and I think I was like, hey, I think I'm gonna do something else entrepreneurial at some…
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 2:55 Guy Raz His dad was a school administrator who loved sports, and from an early age, Bill grew to love them, too, as long as it was Boston sports.
- ▶ 3:06 Bill Simmons Well, Boston, I think, is one of the biggest sports towns, and we had four teams, and I cared about all of them, and I was an only child, so we just watched everything, and I watched everything, and I just, it kind of became my thing, and…
- ▶ 7:03 Guy Raz Tell me about, wow, I mean, your dad's your sports buddy, and like, you moved away from Boston.
- ▶ 17:06 Guy Raz And you were only writing about Boston sports? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:23 Guy Raz And now, he's more than just the Boston sports guy.
- ▶ 32:13 Bill Simmons And I, I was like, this is kind of cool, I kind of get it, like this is so different than Boston, but I, I kind of get it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:41 Bill Simmons It was on the website, so I pressed play, and something weird happened, and all of a sudden, they were playing this show, and it was, I think it was Chad Ford talking to Danny Edge, and Danny Edge talking about Boston and the draft.
- ▶ 43:48 Guy Raz You were working for them, so ultimately, like, you were accountable to them, like, they could, they could hold you accountable and punish you, like, they, you sent out some tweets that were critical of a sports station in Boston, they…
- ▶ 1:19:37 Guy Raz That's Bill Simmons, Boston sports guy and founder and managing director of The Ringer.
HIBT Lab! Biobot Analytics: Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli
- ▶ 0:28 Guy Raz And so about five years ago, two women in Boston, one a biologist named Mariana Matus, the other an architect, Nusha Gaili, got together to start a company to analyze sewage and to find out whether they could detect things like diseases…
- ▶ 6:06 Newsha Ghaeli So a lot of our research was done in the city of Cambridge, city of Boston.
Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly
- ▶ 56:30 Maureen Kelly He went to, um, uh, Wharton with my best friend from undergrad, um, and I met him when we went to Boston.
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout (2020)
- ▶ 3:41 Guy Raz At the time, Dinah was living in Boston and working toward a PhD in biochemistry.
- ▶ 4:58 Guy Raz So you're, so you've got these degrees, it's 2007, and you're living in Boston, or the Boston area, and I guess at the time you were, um, you were dating somebody who's now your husband, Justin, is that right?
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
- ▶ 30:48 Miles Copeland And he went back to Boston, and he started banging that single.
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya
- ▶ 10:42 Hamdi Ulukaya So she opened this map, and she was telling me, and I remember like yesterday, oh, I have school in Boston,
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