Build-A-Bear Workshop, every mention
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Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
- ▶ 0:47 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a fruitless search for a beanie baby inspired Maxine Clark to start Build-A-Bear, a make-your-own stuffed animal store that grew into a global phenomenon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:49 Maxine Clark The light bulb went on, and that was the day that the idea for Build-A-Bear Workshop was born.
- ▶ 24:52 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Maxine ignores the doubters and starts building the machinery for Build-A-Bear.
- ▶ 35:18 Guy Raz Like, if there were people waiting in line saying, oh, you know, this is the Disney, new Disney concepts, new Warner Brothers concept, it's actually a Maxine Clark concept, and it's not like it's trademarked, it's not like you could, I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:10 Guy Raz See, this Build-A-Bear store was like, it was going bonkers, and you had a plan, like, in the business plan, I think, you had this timeline for when you would open new stores, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:32 Maxine Clark In fact, outlet malls now are, are more successful for us because we have a smaller store format to put in there or a pop-up store that we can do when they're doing something great, but that wasn't necessarily the right place for a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:10 Maxine Clark Cheaply or anything like that, we were able to still operate Build-A-Bear with the heart and soul of Build-A-Bear as it was intended.
- ▶ 51:43 Guy Raz So it's around 2010, the end of the financial crisis, and to keep Build-A-Bear profitable, Maxine has cut costs and laid some people off. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:14 Maxine Clark She was the president of Stride Right Shoes right before she came to Build-A-Bear,
- ▶ 56:31 Guy Raz I mean, today, I think she got the company back to profitability in 2017. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:12 Guy Raz I read a, a really interesting analysis by a business school professor from the University of Georgia, I was reading a couple years ago, and, and his theory about, well, not theory, but one of the reasons he points out why Build-A-Bear has… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:41 Guy Raz That's Maxine Clark, founder of Build-A-Bear. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 8:07 Ben Bailey and then we just, uh, did a pivot to, um, build your own chocolate bar, kind of like a build-a-bear workshop only for chocolate. 4 times in the scene