The Container Store, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where The Container Store comes up
Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
- ▶ 1:01 Guy Raz He's the co-founder and former CEO of The Container Store.
- ▶ 1:16 Guy Raz And of course you told the story of The Container Store. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:52 Kip Tindell Well, the, the whole frictionless, um, no people involved definition of service, um, the difference between the Container Store and Neiman Marcus and companies like that, where you have this individualized, great salesperson selling a… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Guy Raz You're on with Kip Tindall, co-founder of the Container Store.
- ▶ 13:16 Guy Raz If Juliet was looking to get this into a store, like if somebody put this into the container store, how would a customer discover it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:07 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Kip Tindall, co-founder of the Container Store, and we are taking your calls. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:11 Guy Raz He's the co-founder of The Container Store, and Kip, uh, what do you say? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:35 Kip Tindell Is you need to worry about people copying, you know, what you have because of the, you know, so the getting the patent, um, you know, we, we had a lot of success early at the container store, and when we had absolutely no money, people…
- ▶ 36:18 Guy Raz Uh, that's Kip Tindall, co-founder of The Container Store.
- ▶ 36:38 Guy Raz The first container store, I guess, is opened.
Advice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty
- ▶ 13:37 Bobbi Brown So what I would do is I would go to the container store and buy a bunch of empty containers and squeeze and just make like little samples, however much you think people need for an area and then just keep them in your pocket.
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method
- ▶ 25:44 Maggie Gerth We've also, um, we just recently got into the container store.
Advice Line with Katlin Smith of Simple Mills
- ▶ 36:39 Marissa Gurdian Okay, so we're selling on Chewy, Amazon, Petco, and we're launching with a container store in QVC.
The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
- ▶ 0:13 Guy Raz July first, 1978, the first container store, I guess, is opened.
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Kip and Sharon Tindall turned empty boxes into a full-on business with The Container Store, a chain that helped people put their stuff in the right place.
- ▶ 2:46 Guy Raz They called it the container store, and basically they sold things that weren't available to regular people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:40 Kip Tindell It was a very small, capitalized company.
- ▶ 21:23 Kip Tindell Uh, one of those names was The Container Store, and as we finalized the product mix, The Container Store made the most sense. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:12 Guy Raz So, July first, 1978, the first container store, I guess, is opened. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:01 Guy Raz How Kip and Sharon recover from that embarrassment, why they eventually decide to take the container store public, and why they wind up regretting it.
- ▶ 24:32 Guy Raz So it's 1978, and Sharon and Kip have just opened the first container store in North Dallas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:13 Guy Raz You were trained as an architect, you had a landscape architect, and you had a budding career, but I guess you started to do some kind of informal consulting for the container store very early on and within the first several months, which… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:06 Guy Raz I remember going to the container store, getting all the stuff and putting it together, and falling off my stepladder building it, but I built it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:28 Guy Raz Um, I guess by, I mean, you're growing, the container store is growing in, in, into the 2000 and 2007.
- ▶ 45:21 Guy Raz You stayed on, and, and you, you, both of you stayed on and continued, um, building the company, um, and by 2013, I believe, you decide to go public, um, the company decides to go public. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:51 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how the container store deals with yet another challenge, competition.
- ▶ 49:20 Guy Raz So, it's twenty-fifteen, nearly two years after its IPO, and the container store is struggling. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:55 Guy Raz But I wonder whether, was there a world where there could have been a pivot that would have stabilized a container store's finances 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:28 Guy Raz Um, let's talk a little bit about sort of the container store post Sharon and Kip. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:33 Guy Raz That's Kip and Sharon Tindall, co-founders of The Container Store. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
- ▶ 42:48 unnamed speaker We're in a container store.
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3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
- ▶ 17:02 Jason Ballard He was one of the founders of the container store, and he was like very proud and happy.