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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Canada comes up
Advice Line with Daymond John of FUBU
- ▶ 28:34 Seema Sangavi My name is Seema Sangavi, and I'm calling from the Niagara region, just outside of Toronto, Canada. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor
- ▶ 7:40 Sean Barasa I'm calling from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant.
- ▶ 3:28 Guy Raz Today, Made Good products are sold in over 40,000 stores across the U.S. and Canada,
- ▶ 8:00 Guy Raz So you, you guys get to Canada as kids. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:57 Guy Raz So how did the nougat business do in Canada?
- ▶ 17:06 Guy Raz To take the fruit and nut bars that you'd already been making for other brands, uh, and then, and essentially sell them under your own name, under your own brand in Canada. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:43 Nima Fotovat And the first retailer we went to is Loblaw in Canada, which is the largest grocery store in Canada. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:44 Guy Raz Okay, so you are, by, by the, by 2015, it sounds like you are distributed across Canada, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:56 Nima Fotovat Yeah, it's, it's amazing, and it's Canada, US. 2 times in the scene
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company.
- ▶ 3:43 Chuck Surack I remember one time I left, uh, Charlotte, North Carolina, and he told me to drive north, and next thing you know, I'm in Sudbury, Canada, and just barely in time for a gig that started on Monday night at seven o'clock.
- ▶ 52:01 Chuck Surack I had a lot of musicians that worked for me that played guitar, and so we finally took on a guitar called Godan out of Canada, and it's a guitar that had technology built into it.
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 47:44 Aman Narang We launched in Canada, UK, Dublin, Ireland.
Advice Line with Kenneth Cole
- ▶ 17:07 Emifa Gafe I'm calling from Toronto, Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:25 Emifa Gafe Because for example, when we were with Hudson's Bay, a lot of our best customers in Canada, they discovered us through their marketplace.
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
- ▶ 31:56 Dominic Wyndham-Giddens We do actually sell direct to consumer in the US, UK, and Canada.
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
- ▶ 27:57 Maxine Clark I was building a store that was a theme park in a mall, and, um, Mall of America was really successful, and, and the mall in Canada, West Edmonton Mall, that, uh, is, uh, such a big mall,
Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
- ▶ 0:24 Guy Raz But as you'll hear, it all started back when Toby decided to move to Canada from Germany and start a snowboarding business.
- ▶ 5:18 Tobias Lütke Initially tried to go to the United States, but then, like, the Canadian dollar was so low that we decided to go to Canada, to Whistler. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:49 Guy Raz Like, I'm in Canada, I'm living with this woman, like, I don't really, you know, know what I'm, I'm gonna do with my life. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:29 Tobias Lütke Do you wanna spend a summer in Canada, and we do this together, and, like, we could work together, and that would be fun.
- ▶ 29:35 Tobias Lütke If that thing is not there suddenly, um, or something goes wrong, the business is defunct, which is a huge responsibility, and people were trusting free guys in Canada.
- ▶ 50:24 Tobias Lütke So, like, here, my board members always said Shopify was, turned out to be a company only Canadians could have built, because we said... 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:13 Guy Raz You were, in 2014, uh, you were named the CEO of the year by, by the Globe and Mail, which is one of the biggest papers in Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:41 Guy Raz Tobi, in 2004, you did not even have a work permit in Canada. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
- ▶ 32:58 Eric Poulain So for two years, we spent time researching the product, testing the product, and then the Maple is our partnership with Maple from Canada. 2 times in the scene
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
- ▶ 1:12:51 Reed Hastings You know, our, um, first market, uh, uh, was Canada, uh, in 2010, and that didn't have DVDs, right?
Advice Line: Tapping AI as a Resource for Your Business
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 6:11 Melita Cyril I'm calling from Toronto, Ontario, and Canada.
- ▶ 31:15 Chris McElroy We sell in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Europe.
Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International
- ▶ 6:58 Daniel Moll I'm calling from Toronto, Canada. 2 times in the scene
Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- ▶ 2:45 Guy Raz As for Natalie, she grew up in Ontario in Canada.
- ▶ 7:52 Guy Raz Did you go back to Canada to start this?
- ▶ 10:06 Natalie Gordon Yeah, we got married in, um, early 2010 at the very tail end of this trip, and then we knew we wanted to move back somewhere, get back into life, and chose to move back to Canada.
Advice Line with Randy Hetrick of TRX
- ▶ 7:56 Paige Say I'm the co-founder of Benny calling in from Toronto, Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:19 Paige Say Like, we're up against the biggest players in the world with, like, the biggest budgets in the world, so just kind of navigating from, like, where we want to be to, like, how do we work our way back from kind of obscurity in Canada.
- ▶ 22:55 Kerry Jones My name is Kerry Jones, and I live in the ski resort town of Whistler, British Columbia in Canada.
- ▶ 31:22 Guy Raz Something like this having, um, you know, strong appeal, particularly in Canada, where you've got a huge sort of, you know, Anglo expat population, right?
Advice Line with Dave Weiner of Priority Bicycles
- ▶ 26:00 Alex Plant We're north of Buffalo, so right on the Canadian border.
Crumbl: Jason McGowan
Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge
- ▶ 6:31 Jessica Off We're based just outside of Toronto, Canada. 2 times in the scene
UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
- ▶ 57:44 Chris Riccobono We had been doing very well in Canada.
Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group
- ▶ 22:44 Guy Raz Canada is a mosquito heaven in the summertime. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:22 Kenesha Lewis My name is Kenesha, um, and I am the chocolatier and founder of One More Coco, a gourmet chocolate company based in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line: Scaling Strategies
- ▶ 32:30 Peter Houck In, you know, Australia, or Canada, or the UK, or wherever. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
- ▶ 3:29 RJ Scaringe In terms of our supplier base in Canada and Mexico.
- ▶ 36:26 Robert Button I'm calling from Vancouver, Canada.
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 4:17 Guy Raz Chris got his degree in engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
- ▶ 37:18 Guy Raz So Chris, you're in Kitchener in Canada, and Hamish, you are in San Francisco, and you, obviously, you're communicating every day, but Chris, you are on your own starting to build 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Richard Branson of Virgin
- ▶ 8:02 Richard Branson You know, want to be proud of, you know, what, you know, what our wonderful teams are creating, and, and I can sort of, you know, like I'm in Canada today, launching flights from Toronto to the UK, and, you know, I've just ziplined down…
Hexclad: Danny Winer
- ▶ 1:05:13 Danny Winer So, you know, we started doing that, and like, they called me, and he's like, you know, I know we've been talking about doing something in Canada.
Advice Line with Peter Rahal of RXBAR
- ▶ 6:09 Christy Stewart My name is Christy Stewart, and I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and I'm the founder of Inner Wealth Supplements. 5 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jeff and Curran Dandurand of Jack Black Skin Care
- ▶ 31:06 Brent Fersker My name is Brent and I'm calling from the beautiful mountain town of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
Advice Line with Lyndon Cormack of Herschel Supply Co.
- ▶ 36:19 Lyndon Cormack Which, A, I agree is a good point of differentiation, and, you know, we're a brand from Vancouver, Canada, so, you know, Vancouver is a part of our unique identity, and although we're not overtly Vancouver, I mean, we sell all over the…
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Marc Lore
Advice Line with Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
- ▶ 2:03 Guy Raz In Canada, you bought a pickup truck for like 700 bucks, and then you just started hauling away people's trash to make money, and it was just like a side hustle at first while you were in school. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:53 Brian Scudamore The shark tank of Canada.
Advice Line with Michael Preysman of Everlane
- ▶ 32:38 Paul Musayev I am calling from British Columbia, Canada, and my business is called Mr.
Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
- ▶ 44:51 Michael Houlihan Later on, that poster became really popular in places like Iceland and Canada, where they don't even see the sun because they had this California vision of the beach.
Thrive Market: Nick Green
- ▶ 38:51 Robert Dale My name is Robert Dale and I'm from Vancouver, Canada.
Advice Line with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
SmartSweets: Tara Bosch
- ▶ 3:50 Guy Raz Tara grew up an only child in Vancouver in Canada.
- ▶ 4:39 Guy Raz It's illegal because I think that the working age is 14, right, in Canada?
- ▶ 16:29 Tara Bosch yeah, so if someone wants to import anything into Canada, I would be the person collecting the fees, and, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:22 Guy Raz And, and I guess around this time, you managed to get two Canadian stores, chains, um, one, one's called Choices, the other one was Bed Bath & Beyond, which of course is, is not just in Canada, but 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Guy Raz Roughly a million US dollars in revenue in Canada in sales, which is pretty great.
- ▶ 55:00 Guy Raz Nothing against Canada. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:03 Guy Raz You now are in Whole Foods in the United States, um, and all over Canada, and I think in this year, 2018, but you get, you applied for a fellowship and got it.
- ▶ 1:13:37 Tara Bosch There's some nuance between Canada and U.S. candy, you know.
Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan
YouTube Creator and Cookbook Author: Rosanna Pansino
- ▶ 49:34 Rosanna Pansino We made, um, like, home organizational stuff for your kitchen and pantry, and those were at Container Stores, and we just moved, uh, this year, I think, into the UK and Canada and, uh, also, uh, on Amazon.
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker
- ▶ 0:47 Guy Raz It's a publicly traded company with more than 200 stores across the US and Canada and more than 3000 employees.
- ▶ 15:40 Dave Gilboa Yeah, so at the end of this year, we'll have 240 stores across the U.S. and Canada.
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
- ▶ 23:24 Hernán López And I went and studied the history of what happened in public radio in other countries, and noticed that there were audio dramas being produced in the UK and Canada.
- ▶ 27:31 Guy Raz Eight Sleep currently ships within the USA, Canada, the UK, select countries in the EU and Australia.
Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo
CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman
Priority Bicycles: Dave Weiner
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- ▶ 1:33 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two Canadian brothers took inspiration from classic brands to create a modern bag business that feels like it's been around forever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:09 Guy Raz Um, Lyndon, you, when you left Australia, I guess you, you, uh, came back to Canada, and then you ended up working as, like, a sales rep, I guess, for Vans, for the, for the shoe company, uh, and, and Jamie, you, you moved on, you started…
Freshpet: Scott Morris
Making garbage useful with Tom Szaky of TerraCycle
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
- ▶ 20:10 Spencer Jan Jeff was the one who came up with the idea, you know, we grew up in Canada, um, and did a lot of camping.
MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
Dutch Bros. Coffee: Travis Boersma
Tory Burch: Tory Burch
Manduka: Peter Sterios
- ▶ 26:10 Peter Sterios I basically organized his calendars in North America, including Canada and Mexico every year that he would come, and he'd be in the States for two months usually, a month on the road, and then three weeks at my studio teaching intensives.
Halo Top Ice Cream: Justin Woolverton
HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch
- ▶ 35:56 Lucie Basch So we've launched in Canada as well.
Osprey Packs: Mike Pfotenhauer
- ▶ 5:16 Mike Pfotenhauer My father was born in Canada, grew up in Canada, and so every summer we would go up to Canada on vacation, and... 3 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Biobot Analytics: Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli
- ▶ 2:09 Newsha Ghaeli Yeah, so in 2014, I finished my graduate studies in architecture in Canada at McGill University. 2 times in the scene
Zumiez: Tom Campion
- ▶ 45:24 unnamed speaker And it was our different stories in Europe and, and Australia and, and US and Canada.
Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
- ▶ 4:14 Guy Raz Her parents were Indian immigrants who first settled in Canada, where they ran a convenience store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:35 Shazi Visram There were two options in the United States and one in Canada, and when you notice something that's disruptive and groundbreaking in the market, your competitors notice it too.
HIBT Lab! The Sorry Girls: Kelsey MacDermaid and Becky Wright
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