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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dallas comes up
Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
- ▶ 1:20 Guy Raz Uh, in 1978, you and your friend, Garrett Boone, opened the first container store in Dallas.
- ▶ 35:49 Kip Tindell And, um, Tiger Woods, when he's leading a golf tournament, I work with a nonprofit group that sponsors a tournament here in Dallas.
Bogg Bag: Kim Vaccarella. The $100 Million Business She Almost Abandoned
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 15:21 Guy Raz I mean, you, you, I believe, opened a second store in Dallas in 1973, uh, and then at some point, maybe it's around like 19 80, you actually approach your dad with a proposal to take over the business, to take over Gabbert's, um, tell me…
- ▶ 19:16 John Gabbert Um, so, uh, my, my dad's proposal as a solution was I would move to Dallas with my family and run the Dallas store, and my younger brother would step in and run the Minneapolis store. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue
- ▶ 42:56 David Neeleman Herb invited me to Ruth Chris Steakhouse in Dallas and said, this isn't going to work.
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
- ▶ 59:08 Ian Murray So when we opened in Memphis, or we opened in Dallas, or we opened in New Orleans, we didn't try to put like in Memphis, you know,
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
- ▶ 3:17 Guy Raz That business became Wingstop, and it started in a small city just outside Dallas in 1994.
- ▶ 9:03 Antonio Swad You don't think they are at the time, but all of a sudden I'm here in Dallas 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 Guy Raz All right, so you go back to Dallas. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:27 Antonio Swad I didn't know that it was the second densest Hispanic neighborhood in Dallas, and, uh, many times I would take a pizza order from a child who was translating for their mother or dad. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:08 Guy Raz But, I'm trying to understand, you had four pizza restaurants in Dallas, and you say,
- ▶ 29:15 Guy Raz Is Garland considered, I, I don't, Garland's not considered maybe an outer exurb of Dallas, but it's not even considered a suburb of Dallas, is it?
- ▶ 43:09 Antonio Swad Just, just north, now that is a suburb, and that is north of Dallas, maybe 20 minutes, and it was owned by two women, and the one woman, it was a school teacher, phys ed teacher, she cashed in her retirement as her down payment, that along…
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
- ▶ 2:18 Mark Cuban We, we have a, um, robotics-driven, um, manufacturing facility in Dallas, Texas, and we're making sterile injectables. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:03 Guy Raz One other thought I had, we had, um, a couple of years ago, we featured the brand Jack Black, which, uh, actually started in Dallas, uh, Mark.
- ▶ 50:36 Guy Raz And, um, and just starting out in Dallas, if you could go back to that person now,
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
- ▶ 29:07 Guy Raz You know, you want to start by maybe building out five to 10 locations within an hour or two drive from HQ before you go to Nashville or Dallas or somewhere else.
- ▶ 33:55 Tanner McCraney And so our first trade show was in Dallas, Texas.
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- ▶ 3:38 Guy Raz Chip was partly raised in Dallas,
- ▶ 25:30 Joanna Gaines All of our friends that went to Baylor all went to Dallas.
- ▶ 1:11:40 Chip Gaines Come from Tennessee, come from Dallas or Houston or Austin, great cities in their own right, and come to Waco, Texas and be like, wow, this isn't at all what I expected.
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 48:14 Vijen Patel Yeah, so in 2016, we were in Philly and I believe we were just getting going on Dallas.
Poppi: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. From Farmers Market Vinegar Drink to $2B Soda Sensation
- ▶ 3:00 Guy Raz So Allison applied to a local farmer's market in Dallas and started bottling her homebrew vinegar drink and called it Mother Beverage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 Allison Ellsworth We moved to Dallas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Guy Raz At a farmer's market in Dallas, um, and, and tell me, tell me, Allison, what was the plan? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:32 Guy Raz And, and did you start with just one Whole Foods in Dallas? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:40 Allison Ellsworth The 14 Dallas Whole Foods.
Advice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty
- ▶ 17:09 Abby Rosalier I'm calling from Dallas, Texas, and I'm the founder and owner of Abby Rose, which is basically an online custom phone case business.
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 43:00 Nirav Tolia My brother started his neighborhood in Dallas.
- ▶ 57:58 Nirav Tolia We were gonna move to Dallas because I didn't have a job to get back to, and she didn't have a job to get back to either.
- ▶ 59:30 Nirav Tolia I wouldn't have put my kids in school here in Dallas.
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 3:57 Guy Raz As for Josh, he grew up in Dallas.
- ▶ 11:01 Josh Hochschuler There weren't direct flights to Dallas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:18 Guy Raz In the U.S., in Dallas, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:18 Guy Raz And, uh, and, and the idea was he was gonna teach you how to make gelato, and then you would go back to Dallas and make it, or that eventually he would come to Dallas with you? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:32 Guy Raz Alright, so you're back in O-two, and now you know, you've got sort of developing a plan on, on starting, on opening a gelato shop in Dallas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Guy Raz You opened the store in 2003, and, um, I mean, it's, it's, it's Dallas, and it's an unusual kind of ice cream, and did you get some attention? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:12 Guy Raz It's like high-end steakhouses and restaurants in Dallas, a specialty store, and that's 2005.
- ▶ 45:02 Josh Hochschuler And, uh, but I didn't know that, but this friend of mine from college had come to Dallas
- ▶ 54:34 Josh Hochschuler The bad news is it's tomorrow morning, like eight 30 in the morning, and we're sitting in Dallas, Texas.
- ▶ 1:02:43 Guy Raz Outside of Dallas? 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Perry Chen of Kickstarter
- ▶ 5:11 Jesse Hodge My name is Jesse Hodge from Dallas, Texas, and I'm the co-founder of ModTab. 2 times in the scene
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
- ▶ 3:33 Guy Raz When he was around seven, his family moved to Dallas, where his dad ran the local office for McKinsey Consulting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:35 Guy Raz You're going to move back to Texas, not to Dallas, but to Austin.
- ▶ 46:40 Paul Hedrick I think our second best sales day of 2015, aside from launch day, was me driving to my middle school in Dallas and selling boots, you know, from a table at the holiday market. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
- ▶ 23:52 Alex Supak Uh, won a couple pitch competitions that gave me some confidence, um, and then just kind of studying up, figuring out, you know, what licensing you need.
Advice Line with Jeff and Curran Dandurand of Jack Black Skin Care
The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
- ▶ 2:43 Guy Raz That was the year Kip and Garrett opened up their shop in Dallas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:10 Guy Raz Okay, now you had to find a location, and I would think that your first store would have been in Austin, because, um, you say you loved it there, and then you went to school there, and you met Sharon there, but I guess by, by this time,… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:14 Guy Raz Because within a year or two, you would have another store in Dallas and then you, you know, growing store by store.
- ▶ 34:52 Kip Tindell Well, you know, we grew up in Dallas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:03 Guy Raz I know every time I talk to people in retail in Dallas, his name always comes up because Neiman Marcus was him.
- ▶ 38:11 Guy Raz Okay, you're in Dallas, now you're in Houston.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 18:00 Rod Cuthbert There was no particular reason why Sabre, based in Dallas, Texas, should contract with a company in Sydney, Australia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:12 Guy Raz Um, and from what I understand, you and Peter, uh, you fly to Dallas.
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
- ▶ 26:55 Mark Sisson I mean, it was incredible, and I would have to fly from Los Angeles to Dallas, and then drive to Fort Worth to the studios, and I did this every two weeks for almost 10 years.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 25:09 Luis von Ahn And then at some point I was giving a talk somewhere in Dallas about this system and how we could digitize books, et cetera.
Jack Black Skin Care: Curran and Jeff Dandurand
- ▶ 4:05 Guy Raz They met in Dallas after they both graduated.
- ▶ 5:37 Guy Raz Okay, so Jeff, I know that, that you were in Dallas around the same time as Curran working as an executive recruiter.
- ▶ 28:25 Curran Dandurand We did test the formulas amongst, um, different guys that we knew in the Dallas area and got really good feedback.
- ▶ 34:42 Jeff Dandurand I, I was so discouraged by the lack of sales at that show, and Kern looked at me and said, no, when we get back to Dallas, you got to get on the phone and start making some calls to open up accounts.
- ▶ 37:54 Guy Raz And, um, and so I guess the first big store was a, a Dallas department store, um, Stanley Korshak, is that what it's called? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:57 Guy Raz I mean, this is, you know, you're in Dallas, America's team, right?
- ▶ 55:48 Jeff Dandurand We, you know, provided them with details on new products, on how we sold, on the sales on every store that we sold to, and two weeks prior to closing, they came into Dallas.
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
- ▶ 2:53 Guy Raz Jeff in Dallas and Spencer in Shanghai, where he helped manage a firm that connected Chinese factories to buyers around the world.
- ▶ 14:09 Guy Raz And I guess, and I guess while Spencer was working in Shanghai, uh, you were raising your family in, in Texas and Dallas, um, uh, working at a, like a chemical company for your day job, and I, I guess you were looking at 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:29 Guy Raz You decide to come back to, to the U.S. and you settle in Dallas where your brother is.
When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
- ▶ 33:26 Chris Urmson Which is what you call kind of a trucking route, and that'll be between Dallas and Houston, and then we'll expand likely to Fort Worth to El Paso, uh, and then we'll kind of grow the network out from there.
Mielle Organics: Monique Rodriguez
Orangetheory Fitness: Ellen Latham
- ▶ 13:06 Ellen Latham Nope, we did not, and, uh, but, you know, spas were great, were huge in Florida at that time, so I applied for a job that was called Bonaventure Spa, and that's where the movie stars would come, like, Dallas was big then, and Linda Evans…
Michael Kors: Michael Kors
- ▶ 37:18 Michael Kors So you were almost, you know, if you went back, let's say, to Dallas twice a year,
Culver's: Craig Culver
- ▶ 55:18 Craig Culver Restaurant that we opened, and, uh, we stuck to that until we opened in Texas, and my sister wanted to open a restaurant in, uh, the Dallas area, and another gentleman who was originally from Chicago was living in Austin.
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
- ▶ 13:52 George Zimmer My father offered me a job in Dallas, repping his line in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:01 Guy Raz I, I'm trying to, I mean, you are your dad's rep in Dallas. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 George Zimmer Harry Levy had been my fraternity brother and, uh, was from Dallas, and I had called him up and said, would you like to move to Houston and do this with me?
- ▶ 25:36 George Zimmer Uh, in 1980, I came out to the Bay Area on a vacation, and we were planning on opening up in Dallas as our next market, and I walk into, uh, either Ruth's Atkins or, uh, some other Bay Area store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:18 George Zimmer We're in Seattle, Portland, Dallas, Sacramento, and Houston.
HIBT Lab! Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company: Mark Cuban
- ▶ 0:20 Guy Raz Mark was on the show back in 2016, and he told us the story of how he went from bartending in Dallas to building a media company to eventually owning the Dallas Mavericks.
- ▶ 19:13 Mark Cuban So that allows us to make some money that, you know, the market up 15% and invested in a, you know, we're doing a manufacturing facility in Dallas so we can push our prices even lower. 2 times in the scene
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
- ▶ 5:05 Guy Raz Dude Perfect is based in Frisco, Texas, not far from Dallas, and just a few hundred miles from where they all met at college.
- ▶ 1:00:20 Tyler Toney They were up in Dallas, so, I mean, at this point, not like we had a lot of brand deals or opportunities anyways, but when we did, we would just tell companies that we were, we were so busy with speaking engagements and things like that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:22 Guy Raz But you guys were driving four hours back and forth from Dallas, I think basically until 2014.
- ▶ 1:11:42 Cory Cotton My big stipulation when we moved from Austin to Dallas was that I really needed some help on the editing side.
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown (2018)
- ▶ 28:53 Bobbi Brown Um, certainly, you know, and especially in Dallas, you know, where they would look, look at me like, she's the plain Jane type, you know, because in Dallas, the makeup, the hair, the jewelry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:22 Bobbi Brown A Dallas-based company that tried to buy us, a finance company that basically finally said, if you won't sell to us, we're just going to knock you off with another makeup artist, which they did, um, which is fine.
How I Built Resilience: Dr. Iman Abuzeid of Incredible Health
- ▶ 19:36 Dr. Iman Abuzeid Uh, were less likely to get interview requests on the platform, even though they wanted to, you know, live in wherever it was, LA or Dallas or whatever it was.
Famous Dave's: Dave Anderson
- ▶ 26:33 Dave Anderson I said, I would like to bring 20 of my managers and my assistant managers down to Dallas, Texas to go through your Born to Inquiry.
How I Built Resilience: Cynt Marshall of Dallas Mavericks
- ▶ 15:25 Cynt Marshall I know that's what we're trying to do here in Dallas and at the MAPS.
- ▶ 18:55 Cynt Marshall I mean, we pivoted, so we did a lot in the community, and so they wanted to be a part of that, because this Dallas region is amazing in terms of just being there for the community, and so a lot of people wanted to partner with us on that.
Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
- ▶ 55:11 Michael Kirban You know, all of a sudden, you walk into a store in Minneapolis, or you walk into a store in Dallas, or wherever, and people are like, oh, yeah, yeah,
The Laundress: Lindsey Boyd
- ▶ 46:14 Lindsey Boyd Um, so we positioned our products within showrooms, um, in Dallas and Atlanta and LA and New York and we did showrooms of what showrooms where they had other brands.
Supergoop!: Holly Thaggard
- ▶ 11:54 Holly Thaggard Well, at the time, my brother was starting college at SMU in Dallas, and I had plenty of time on my hands, so I went to help him move in the dorms, and all I could do was look around at all the beautiful homes in Highland Park, and how… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:24 Guy Raz I mean, you, you're living in Dallas still at the time.
- ▶ 34:42 Guy Raz All in Dallas, Dallas area? 3 times in the scene
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