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Advice Line with Kenneth Cole Jul 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:27 Guy Raz You actually grew up watching your dad run a, a women's shoe factory in Brooklyn, and then you branched out on your own.

Catalina Crunch: Krishna Kaliannan. From Homemade Keto Cocoa Puffs to Breakfast Aisle Breakthrough Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:17 Guy Raz So it's 2018, and Krishna's selling Catalina Crunch entirely online and making it in a commercial kitchen in Brooklyn.

e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant Jun 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:13 Guy Raz As for Joey, he grew up in Brooklyn in the 19 eighties and nineties.

Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur May 21, 2026 · 2 mentions

Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:13 Guy Raz They shared an office space in Brooklyn, and then from there,

Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand. Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:15:14 Guy Raz They chose a manufacturer in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, built a website, and launched the business out of Lauren's basement.

Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:57 Vijen Patel And so if you're in some small building in, you know, Marina and SF, or Bucktown in Chicago, or, you know, Brooklyn in New York, we can't serve you.

Advice Line with Dave Weiner of Priority Bicycles Sep 11, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 19:32 Guy Raz And you, you just have a, a booth in like outside of festivals or be, but you go to very strategic cities, Portland, coffee city, uh, Brooklyn, coffee capital, right?
  • ▶ 26:49 Alex Plant Uh, so I came up with this business idea when I was living in Brooklyn. 3 times in the scene

Don Vultaggio: AriZona Beverage Company - The Snap Decision That Outsmarted Snapple Sep 1, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:22 Guy Raz It was launched by two guys in Brooklyn, Don Voltaggio and John Farolito. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:39 Don Vultaggio And my dad didn't want me to be a grocer, but when I graduated in 1970, I had no intention of going to college, and he set up an interview for a job at a brewery in Brooklyn, and that's how he started the beverage business. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:02 Don Vultaggio Yeah, that was produced in Brooklyn.
  • ▶ 16:28 Don Vultaggio We, we, we went at it in a, in a, in a, I guess a Brooklyn style where we said we gotta be a little outrageous because in order to get some attention on a shelf, we have to do something different, and it worked out pretty good.
  • ▶ 24:19 Don Vultaggio And we buy some Snapple to look at on the way back to Brooklyn, and we kind of talk ourselves out of the tea business, because we said, how are we going to get somebody to buy us over Snapple?

Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme Aug 7, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:59 Sasha Milstein I'm originally from Seattle, but I now call Brooklyn home, and I am the founder of Aunt Ethel's Pot Pies. 3 times in the scene

Advice Line with Peter Rahal of RXBAR Apr 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:37 April Wachtel I'm April Wachtel, and I am calling in from Brooklyn, New York, and I'm the founder of Cheeky Cocktails.

Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt Nov 18, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 40:57 Bill Shufelt A turning point came, and it wasn't like I got a huge commitment, but a college friend set up a dinner with four of his local friends in Brooklyn, and they all just like, let me talk about the idea for a couple hours, and I was so…
  • ▶ 49:01 Bill Shufelt So in December, 2017, I was sampling a local Whole Foods beer manager, and they said, you should really go down to the Brooklyn store and meet the forager, who has, like, a bit more decision-making authority, and so the next day, I drove… 2 times in the scene

SmartSweets: Tara Bosch Aug 5, 2024 · 1 mention

MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian Mar 25, 2024 · 1 mention

Everlane: Michael Preysman Nov 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:37 Guy Raz Yeah, I mean, the, the, the bow tie, like, the Venn diagram of, like, hipsters, and I guess, um, cheap apparel, and Brooklyn, I guess the middle of that is a bow tie.

Priority Bicycles: Dave Weiner Nov 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Dave Weiner quit his job in tech to build a bike that wouldn't rust or need a new chain, and grew Priority Bicycles from a Brooklyn startup into a major player in bikes.

Etsy: Rob Kalin Oct 30, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 14:00 Rob Kalin And I set up a woodshop in my bedroom in Brooklyn and got to making furniture. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:02 Rob Kalin It's a little bit crass in his Brooklyn way, but he's like,
  • ▶ 1:10:38 Rob Kalin I mean, I remember this moment, um, you know, before this happened, where I was living in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and I would ride my bike everywhere, and I'm just riding to 2 times in the scene

The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020) Jul 3, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 36:34 Melissa Butler Buying the, the units, and then actually getting them to my Brooklyn apartment may have cost me 13,000 dollars.
  • ▶ 44:41 Melissa Butler I can make sure that people who look like me are a part of this renaissance because, you know, I had been experiencing firsthand what gentrification looks like because I was living in Brooklyn.
  • ▶ 50:55 Melissa Butler And we live in Brooklyn, New York.

Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings Jun 1, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:18 Guy Raz So that year, she rented an old office in Brooklyn and turned it into a co-working space, and she invited a bunch of friends to join her.
  • ▶ 7:37 Tina Roth-Eisenberg In Dumbo, Brooklyn, a white box on the East river. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:08 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Tina Roth Eisenberg, a serial entrepreneur who, among other ventures, opened a co-working space in Brooklyn back in the mid-two thousands that eventually sparked the idea for the well-known event series…

HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole Mar 23, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:13 Guy Raz The company now has nine locations, mainly in and around Atlanta, but also in Brooklyn and soon in Washington, D.C.

HIBT Lab! Yolélé: Pierre Thiam Aug 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:35 Pierre Thiam And then they gave us a shelf on Union Square and then on Times Square and then in Brooklyn.

HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea Aug 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:43 Andrew Rea So I sold my car to my brother for 2000 dollars, and I used that to procure a, a room in a five bedroom, uh, legally probably a one bedroom, uh, in, in, uh, in Brooklyn, Atlantic, and, uh,

HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird Jul 7, 2022 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:51 Guy Raz About eight years ago, Danelle Baird, an entrepreneur from Brooklyn, saw an opportunity to focus on decarbonizing buildings in low-income neighborhoods.
  • ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz In Brooklyn, parents immigrants. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:34 Donnel Baird I said goodbye to my girlfriend and friends in Brooklyn, packed up a car and drove down to South Carolina to become a senior staffer with the, uh, Obama for America campaign.
  • ▶ 5:45 Donnel Baird Um, and so there is an inefficiency in the energy system that I saw not only in Brooklyn, but in Cleveland and in Charlotte, on the South Carolina-Georgia border, and the Obama campaign that led me to believe that this was a persistent
  • ▶ 15:06 Donnel Baird So the other part of it is like, you know, when I was growing up in Brooklyn, man, there's like two kinds of waste that I saw when I was growing up and when I was a community organizer.
  • ▶ 27:05 Donnel Baird So for example, the church pastor that I told you about in Brooklyn, he was spending 10,000 dollars a month on his energy bill, on his oil bill, because he had a school and senior lunch and all these programs in his giant church that was…

Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020) Jul 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:30 Shazi Visram I would eat peanut butter in my apartment in Brooklyn with a chopstick to make it last longer.

The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 1:08:28 Jimmy Fallon It was, uh, September, uh, it was my birthday, and Paul McCartney was playing in Brooklyn, at Barclays Center, and that's where I was born in Brooklyn. 2 times in the scene

Florentine Films: Ken Burns Apr 11, 2022 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 3:58 Guy Raz Ken was born in Brooklyn, but mainly grew up in Ann Arbor, in a house near the University of Michigan, where his dad was an assistant professor of anthropology.
  • ▶ 23:07 Ken Burns In Brooklyn, downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, and met with, um, the, the Democratic boss of, uh, Brooklyn, who died in jail, I believe, or at least went to jail, and he gave me an envelope with a thousand dollars in it from the Kings… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:48 Ken Burns They're the people who, you know, float railroad cards on scows across from New Jersey to Brooklyn, or whatever it is. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:30 Ken Burns Brooklyn-born Arthur Miller with a thick Brooklyn accent played William Tecumseh Sherman. 2 times in the scene

Casper: Philip Krim Jun 28, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:12 Philip Krim And we hired kind of our first agency partner, which was a group out of Brooklyn called Red Antler to help us with the website and the branding and the experience side of things.
  • ▶ 39:48 Philip Krim We were all working out of, you know, wherever we could from time to time, and so we would often work out of Luke's apartment in Brooklyn, and Luke had an extra bedroom that he would rent out on Airbnb, and Luke's roommate at this time…
  • ▶ 42:20 Philip Krim Maybe one or two dozen mattresses, um, that we were keeping out in Brooklyn.

Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin Apr 26, 2021 · 5 mentions

Robinhood: Vlad Tenev Apr 12, 2021 · 1 mention

UPPAbaby: Bob and Lauren Monahan Mar 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:58 Lauren Monahan I can remember a college teammate of mine who lives in Brooklyn calling me and saying, I'm seeing your strollers everywhere.

The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler Nov 23, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 38:17 Melissa Butler So I think buying the, the units, and then actually getting them to my Brooklyn apartment may have cost me 13,000 dollars.
  • ▶ 46:59 Melissa Butler I can make sure that people who look like me are a part of this renaissance because, you know, I had been experiencing firsthand what gentrification looks like because I was living in Brooklyn.
  • ▶ 56:18 Melissa Butler And we live in Brooklyn, New York.

Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole Nov 16, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:33 Guy Raz Kenneth was born in Brooklyn in the 19 fifties.
  • ▶ 10:08 Kenneth Cole So, we were making shoes in, in, in Brooklyn, and, and I, there were a hundred steps that went into making the most simple shoe.

How I Built Resilience: Live with Christina Tosi and Gary Erickson & Kit Crawford May 7, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:44 Guy Raz Christina spoke to us after a shift at Milk Bar's commissary in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she's going in every day to make sure that cookies are getting made and that her employees are taken care of.
  • ▶ 5:26 Guy Raz I mean, the kitchens in LA and Williamsburg in Brooklyn can't operate in the same way they normally do.

How I Built Resilience: Live with José Andrés Apr 30, 2020 · 1 mention

Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop Apr 20, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 37:21 Rich Fulop Oh, you know, we have this business based in Brooklyn, and we're making linens, and she's like, oh, Brooklinen, that would be great, and we're like, 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:40 Vicki Fulop So we got space in Greenpoint, which is a neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Video Artist: Casey Neistat Mar 2, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:29 Casey Neistat Um, and he dropped out of college and, um, moved to Brooklyn, and he had a series of kind of interesting gigs, um, and, uh, throughout that, um, he bought, uh, an iMac computer, which was the first, uh, kind of the first consumer market… 2 times in the scene

M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur Feb 3, 2020 · 1 mention

Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram Jan 20, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:35 Shazi Visram I would eat peanut butter in my apartment in Brooklyn with a chopstick to make it last longer.

Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) Dec 23, 2019 · 1 mention

Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff Nov 7, 2019 · 1 mention

Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber Oct 21, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:53 Alex Blumberg And so I had spent a summer in, in Brooklyn interning at Harper's Magazine for free.
  • ▶ 18:20 Matt Lieber And on the way back from, as I was going back to my apartment, I saw this guy in a park in downtown Brooklyn hitting golf balls.
  • ▶ 51:16 Guy Raz And, of course, on, on the Startup Podcast, um, you describe all about that first office in Brooklyn, and the people you hired, and, uh, working with Matt, and, and you also talk about how early on you changed the name of the

The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs Sep 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 57:46 Guy Raz Jim lost his job at an animation studio, and a friend of his who loved the table he made suggested that maybe he could make more pieces of furniture and sell them at the flea market in Brooklyn. 4 times in the scene

Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017) Aug 19, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:56 Gary Hirshberg Samuel is originally from Brooklyn, um, grew up very poor in Flatbush, but he got to know a lot of these old Jewish yogurt makers down there, and, uh, they taught him yogurt making.

Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018) Aug 12, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:18 Marcia Kilgore You know, I think, um, you get a few, a few dollars in your bank account, and I did have a laugh, and we used to joke when it got wired, you know, we said the eagle has landed, and we laughed, and then we went and got groceries in our…

Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018) Dec 31, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:46 Perry Chen Well, I got a job working at a restaurant in, in Brooklyn that I actually used to, you know, used to love.
  • ▶ 35:53 Guy Raz When we interviewed Perry back in May of 2017, he was spending most of his time at a studio in Brooklyn working on his own projects.

Barre3: Sadie Lincoln (2017) Nov 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:00 Guy Raz That email was from one specialty store in Brooklyn, and from there, Alexander started to get a bit more traction.

WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018) Sep 3, 2018 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 8:38 Miguel McKelvey Um, so, um, I flew out, and I think it was a, a Wednesday, and I met with one firm, they were all super, like, chic architects, and like, they're all black, and like, cool glasses, and super slick office, and all that, and I was like, I…
  • ▶ 16:34 Miguel McKelvey In Brooklyn. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:21 Miguel McKelvey It's like perfect, you know, Brooklyn warehouse building, exposed brick, exposed timber, you know, beams and columns, big windows, views of the water. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:26 Guy Raz So it's 2008, and Miguel and Adam convince a Brooklyn landlord to give them one floor in a building to start their company. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:58 Miguel McKelvey You had like a cool Brooklyn restaurant in an old auto garage.

Carol's Daughter: Lisa Price (2018) Aug 6, 2018 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:39 Guy Raz Kitchen, a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn.
  • ▶ 19:37 Lisa Price There, there were beauty editors that lived in the Brooklyn neighborhood where I lived, so they were always in search of something different.
  • ▶ 24:23 Lisa Price The place where she went, where she would get her blood work done on a regular basis was this medical center in Brooklyn called the HIP Center.
  • ▶ 31:28 Guy Raz Um, was that, was that difficult for you to sell this thing that you built out of your apartment in Brooklyn, or, or did it feel like a weight was lifted off your shoulders?
  • ▶ 35:40 Guy Raz But for a, a little girl in, from Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, you did pretty well. 2 times in the scene

Steve Madden: Steve Madden Jul 16, 2018 · 1 mention

Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore Jan 22, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:37 Marcia Kilgore You know, I think, um, you get a few, a few dollars in your bank account, and I did have a laugh, and we used to joke when it got wired, you know, we said the eagle has landed, and we laughed, and then we went and got groceries in our…

Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade (2017) Jan 8, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:23 Andy Spade So Katie would take the train to Brooklyn to the factory, pick up the boxes, take them back on the subway.

Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg Oct 2, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:45 Gary Hirshberg Samuel is originally from Brooklyn, um, grew up very poor in Flatbush, but he got to know a lot of these old Jewish yogurt makers down there, and, uh, they taught him yogurt making, and, uh, what they explained to him is it's very simple.

Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz Sep 28, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:42 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a poor kid from the projects in Brooklyn turned a small coffee company in Seattle into the third largest restaurant chain in the world. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:31 Guy Raz A lot of people, uh, know that you were raised in a housing project, Bayview, uh, in Brooklyn. 2 times in the scene

Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 · 1 mention

Kickstarter: Perry Chen Jul 31, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:24 Perry Chen Well, I got a job working at a restaurant in, in Brooklyn that I actually used to, you know, used to love.

WeWork: Miguel McKelvey Jun 19, 2017 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 7:35 Miguel McKelvey And then the other one I went to was in Dumbo in Brooklyn, and it was just two guys in this tiny little office, like, and they were in jeans and t-shirts, and you know, they had like a really relaxed vibe,
  • ▶ 15:12 Guy Raz In Brooklyn. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:59 Miguel McKelvey It's like perfect, you know, Brooklyn warehouse building, exposed brick, exposed timber, you know, beams and columns, big windows, views of the water. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:04 Guy Raz So it's 2008, and Miguel and Adam convince a Brooklyn landlord to give them one floor in a building to start their company. 3 times in the scene
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