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Advice Line with Daymond John of FUBU
- ▶ 9:51 Christopher Navarro My name is Christopher Navarro, and I'm calling from Chicago, Illinois. 5 times in the scene
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company.
- ▶ 12:12 Guy Raz So you've got this business going, you're running the studio, and I guess there's a real turning point, and it happens in 1984, and I want you to tell me about this, because from what I understand, you were invited to a trade show in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 unnamed speaker Actually, I wasn't that smart, but I mentioned the Kurzweil rep kept coming by and getting my sounds, and he would take them to the other dealers up in Chicago and Detroit and Minneapolis, and, and I kept telling about my relationship with…
- ▶ 38:14 Chuck Surack So we entertained, uh, they, and they were good people out of Chicago, the William Blair Capital Company.
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 33:19 Aman Narang So we, um, we launched in, in, in, in Miami and Chicago, thanks to GFS and their support, and then went from there.
Catalina Crunch: Krishna Kaliannan. From Homemade Keto Cocoa Puffs to Breakfast Aisle Breakthrough
- ▶ 51:34 Krishna Kaliannan And I started to realize from buying ingredients, if you have your thing located in New York, you're paying a lot more to ship those ingredients, say from Chicago to New York, right?
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
- ▶ 6:01 Dr. Ruchi Gupta I live in Chicago and my company is Yobi. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:27 Guy Raz I'm thinking Austin, you know, um, I'm thinking Chicago. 2 times in the scene
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
- ▶ 21:02 Maxine Clark And I called my friend Adrienne Weiss, who was a brand builder in Chicago.
- ▶ 42:08 Maxine Clark They wanted us to come, and they wanted to be the first one in their market, so in Chicago we had, the next two stores were in Chicago, and then the fourth store was in, um, Kansas City.
- ▶ 45:30 Maxine Clark Yes, yes, and we got wind of that, because they were in our, um, Oak Brook store in Chicago, and our store manager called us, and she said, there's a person in here who's buying every, one of everything.
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
- ▶ 1:07:01 Brian Smith It took a long time for me to get back east because I didn't know what the kids did for sport in the winter, and I was talking to a sporting good owner from, I think it was Chicago, and he, he rolled his eyes and go, duh, they play hockey,… 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 0:22 John Gabbert You know, the farthest we'd gone to Chicago, we didn't know what to do.
- ▶ 39:52 Guy Raz So, you've got this, um, you've got these pieces coming in, into your shops, and you've got three stores, uh, and then you open, I believe the fourth store was in Chicago.
- ▶ 40:07 Guy Raz And Chicago is a design city.
- ▶ 43:42 John Gabbert And it's often treated as a very secondary way, and, um, it's interesting, we talked about, we opened in Chicago, and the surprise in Chicago was, Chicago gets a lot of visitors from all over the country, and that store opened and did… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:50 John Gabbert You know, the farthest we'd gone to Chicago, we didn't know what to do, and we just said, no, we're not ready, and to me it's an interesting point of view because people remember the decisions that they made where they did something,
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue
- ▶ 17:16 Jeff Pyjack I'm calling from the beautiful city of Chicago.
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
- ▶ 59:16 Ian Murray Louis, and Chicago, and you know, everywhere.
Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
- ▶ 42:33 Matt O'Hayer People knew that I knew John, but I met one of the, um, presidents of Whole Foods on a hiking trip we took together with John, and, uh, and his VP reached out to me and said, we'd like to get eggs up in the Chicago Midwest region, and it… 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork
- ▶ 9:25 Jane Barthel And that's, um, I get that via a fabric sourcer I met who is out of Chicago.
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali of Chomps
- ▶ 28:30 Pete Maldonado I feel like I, I get like these frozen pizzas from like Gino's East from people in Chicago, like these other, like, I know it's got to cost an astronomical amount, but they're doing it for like holidays or seasonal stuff.
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyer's
- ▶ 22:22 Nick Harmon Just within the first couple of weeks of us launching, I thought that it was our killer marketing and social media posts that had blown up our store, but it turns out it was a toy designer in Chicago that just saw the brand online, ordered…
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 5:07 Guy Raz But before any of that, Joan grew up in a suburb of Chicago.
- ▶ 6:43 Joan Barnes My family was in Chicago and yeah, lonely and isolated.
- ▶ 25:08 Joan Barnes He was, you know, considerably older than me, 20, 25 years older, and Bud had worked for McDonald's in Chicago.
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
- ▶ 28:00 Amanda Horan Coast Guard-approved life jacket brand in the U.S. based just outside of Chicago. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift
- ▶ 9:34 Josh Jankiewicz So I finally found a brewery called Pilot Project, and they're based out of Chicago and Milwaukee, and I pitched them the idea, and they immediately said yes, and we started R&Ding, and it got to the point where now when people say no to…
Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 2:41 Guy Raz But instead of storefronts, Bijan and his co-founder, Drew McKenna, put lockers in apartment buildings in Chicago, places where young professionals could drop their clothes anytime, day or night, and then pick them up a few days later,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 Guy Raz Ok, so you guys start working, so he moves to Chicago to work on this with you. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:31 Guy Raz So, all right, you moved to Chicago to really start to work on this, and when you were telling people about it, how were you describing this? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:39 Vijen Patel In Chicago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 Guy Raz So it's 2013, and Vijan has just joined his co-founder Drew in Chicago to launch their new laundry business, PressBox. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:47 Vijen Patel You know, I've been to all of Chicago's tow yards.
- ▶ 32:01 Vijen Patel And so around again, the one year mark, we started using this facility on Goose Island, and they became our ultimate supplier for ultimately a lot of Chicago as we scaled. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:02 Vijen Patel They decided to come to Chicago as their third market. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:08 Guy Raz All right, so back to, back to Chicago, you've got your own, I mean, at a certain point, I think like two and a half, almost three years in,
- ▶ 39:33 Guy Raz So it's 2016, and Vijan and Drew are taking on a massive project, building their own laundry facility just north of Chicago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:06 Guy Raz I mean, when you would go into a building, for example, in Chicago, or even in Washington, D.C., presumably, they might push back and say, well, you know, we've been approached by Washio, and they're offering us this incentive. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Guy Raz They launched their own version of this, a competitor called Tide Spin, and I guess, and they launched it in Chicago, and so tell me about how you reacted, at least in your mind, when you first heard about Procter & Gamble coming into this… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 50:58 Guy Raz All right, so it's 2017, and Procter & Gamble is really going head to head, trying to get into the same buildings you guys are in, at least in Chicago.
- ▶ 1:01:15 Vijen Patel And I was somehow in this sanctuary in Chicago with capital and with free time.
Advice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty
- ▶ 8:18 Mark Sokolowski I'm calling from Chicago, Illinois. 3 times in the scene
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya (2022)
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 49:40 Hamdi Ulukaya I wanted to go see it, so I went to Chicago, drive from Chicago to Wisconsin, and in that drive, basically, I came up with the name Chobani. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method
- ▶ 22:19 Maggie Gerth Hi, my name is Maggie Gerth, and I'm from Chicago, Illinois, and I founded Props Luggage, which is a carry-on suitcase that has its own built-in leg system, so you no longer need a luggage rack when you travel. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Perry Chen of Kickstarter
- ▶ 28:50 Joe Fontana We are a chicken sandwich shop here in Chicago. 6 times in the scene
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
- ▶ 5:55 Paul Hedrick Sent to Chicago, and, uh, where we had just made the firm's largest investment at the time.
Advice Line with Luis von Ahn of Duolingo
- ▶ 7:21 Steph Krim My name is Steph Krim, and I'm calling in from Chicago, Illinois. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Luis von Ahn Yeah, I mean, I, I think in, in general, my inclination would be to just make the, the best possible thing I can in Chicago, and then if it's good enough, it'll, it'll just get copied. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:55 Stephanie Carlson Well, we've been in Chicago.
Advice Line with Jonathan Neman of Sweetgreen
- ▶ 35:13 Joey Cornell Yeah, so we currently have one, uh, brick and mortar location about 10 miles outside of Chicago in Villa Park, Illinois.
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
- ▶ 3:30 Guy Raz You moved from New York to Chicago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:59 Alex Supak I'm from Glenview, Illinois, which is just outside of Chicago. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Peter Rahal of RXBAR
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 2:14 Guy Raz Mark launched the idea in Chicago, around Wrigley Field, where parking is notoriously challenging. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:36 Guy Raz Do you remember how much you accumulated in parking fines, like, over the years while you were working in Chicago? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Mark Lawrence Uh, yeah, and it's not also easy in Chicago in the snow, um, you know, cause we would try to get ahead of it, so we, in the winter, we went and wanted to get ahead for the season, so we would, you know, tell people like, hey,
- ▶ 25:02 Mark Lawrence We were using Twitter, uh, at the time to tweet about parking and seeing can we attract people, uh, or see people who are frustrated with parking in Chicago or for Wrigley and say, hey, have you heard of Spot Hero?
- ▶ 34:38 Guy Raz Let's really first own Chicago, and then we'll expand out. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:50 Mark Lawrence Here are references from Chicago, from, you know, people in your company, some they know, some they don't, and they work with, you know, three, four, five, six, seven, eight players, and, and we bring more than all of them combined, and we… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 Mark Lawrence Um, and so, you know, tested this in New York and Chicago, and it, and it just did not work, and I presented to the board the findings.
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
- ▶ 42:55 Monica Nassif So lo and behold, fast forward to this houseware show, our first houseware show in Chicago, and we have
Marucci Sports - Kurt Ainsworth
Advice Line with Norma Kamali of Norma Kamali
- ▶ 21:06 Bob Wolkoff I'm Bob Wolkoff from Chicago. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball
- ▶ 19:42 Cindy Chin Smith Yeah, I actually ran my fifth marathon last year in Chicago, and, uh, absolutely, the crowds on the major marathons are electric, and when they yell your name, it's, it's like nothing else. 2 times in the scene
Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin
- ▶ 4:22 Guy Raz These hotels are totally interchangeable, whether you're in Chicago or Denver or Pittsburgh.
- ▶ 7:38 Guy Raz Oh, so in Chicago? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:26 Guy Raz And I guess you worked in Chicago, uh, in their Chicago office for a few years and, and, and did pretty well there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:11 Ben Weprin We, so we each put in a little bit, and then a friend of mine from Chicago and his dad that I had known, um, put in some money.
- ▶ 17:04 Ben Weprin All day I was trying to get these tickets, and I was thinking I had actually been given a job offer right before this from Larry Levy, whose son was a close friend of mine while I was in Chicago. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:57 Ben Weprin Um, he built a ton of, you know, really, you know, great projects in Chicago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:00 Ben Weprin We'll do something else together, and you're, you know, you're, you're family to me, and I never forgot that, and it was such a powerful lesson, and it gave me, I was really worried and obviously scared, and it gave me a lot of confidence…
- ▶ 36:08 Guy Raz Um, so, all right, you, you decided that, uh, you wanted to acquire this old Days Inn near, in, in Chicago, near DePaul University. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:01 Ben Weprin We could do these sort of design driven hotels in neighborhoods within Chicago that we really understand a real estate is so block by block. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:09 Guy Raz So it's around 2014, and Ben realizes that the hotel he's just renovated near DePaul University in Chicago could be replicated in college towns across the U.S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:28 Guy Raz Were people ever like, what is this corporate Chicago company doing, trying to like,
Advice Line with Sadie Lincoln of barre3
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 6:54 Guy Raz And so I guess I guess you also got a job doing computer tech for for like a printing company in Chicago right?
- ▶ 11:50 Guy Raz Like, I think at one point you were suggesting, like, maybe people could build, like, a, build a glass dome over Chicago to protect it from the cold winter? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Andrew Mason Obviously we were going kind of door to door in the local businesses in, in Chicago, calling to places that we loved, but we were also just trying like random e-commerce places because 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:26 Guy Raz So it's 2009 and Groupon has been so successful in Chicago that it's expanded to Boston. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:01 Guy Raz And I imagine that while you're just growing and exploding in growth, there's a lot of pressure, probably from investors, but maybe even from you to just get to every city possible, because this wasn't a business that you could just run… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:31 Andrew Mason Um, by the time we got back to Chicago, I think she was pregnant with our first son, and, uh, by October of that year, of 2013, we were living in San Francisco, getting ready to have our first child.
Insomnia Cookies: Seth Berkowitz
- ▶ 32:04 Seth Berkowitz We didn't have a twelve-month business in New York and Chicago like we do today, and we didn't have the brand knowledge.
Advice Line with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
Advice Line with Tony Lamb of Kona Ice
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
Weee!: Larry Liu
Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
- ▶ 3:37 Gene Berdachevsky Uh, and we raced it from Chicago to LA on route. 2 times in the scene
Everlane: Michael Preysman
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