Denver, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Denver comes up
Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
- ▶ 9:56 Serena Dugan And I would have a lot of parties in those days, and I had a friend of a friend over to my house who managed an art gallery in downtown Denver, and she said, this is amazing.
Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox
- ▶ 2:06 Curt Richardson I remember when we met in Denver.
Justin’s Nut Butter: Justin Gold. He Was Waiting Tables, Then...He Reinvented Peanut Butter.
- ▶ 27:37 Justin Gold So then I found a salsa called all the salsa companies and they're like, well, we use this shared kitchen facility in South Denver about an hour, hour and a half from me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:41 Guy Raz You're working at REI, you're waiting tables, you're making peanut butter in Denver, and
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 21:10 John Gabbert They were in Denver and Minneapolis.
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
- ▶ 59:16 Ian Murray Guitars and Cadillacs like Elvis, you know, we, we built a store that felt like you were in New England at a yacht club, and I think what we found is that there were like-minded people all over the place, you know, Denver, Colorado, and St.
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business
- ▶ 31:06 Beryl Stafford I called the stores in Denver.
- ▶ 34:41 Beryl Stafford Yes, so I had a small distributor here, DPI it's called, and they started taking my bars to Whole Foods in Denver, and it was the first pallet I had ever used, and I didn't even know what a pallet was when I started the business, and I…
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- ▶ 41:56 J.P. Iberti Yeah, it's, it's, it's a funny thing with kitchen, you know, a lot of people go into a kitchen and then move away to San Francisco, LA, Denver, Miami, and we had such roots in the kitchen with supply that people ended up taking us with…
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- ▶ 55:38 Val Griffith So I called Breezy, who was on a plane to Denver and, or I guess you were just off the plane.
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- ▶ 1:08:09 Ben Francis And it, and it's really funny, I was, um, I was working in Denver about 12 months ago, and I sort of finished work, I just went to a local gym, I think it was in Anytime Fitness, and I went, I went to the back, I went, I went, you know, by…
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 48:31 Vijen Patel And then those same developers did that in Denver.
Advice Line with Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment
- ▶ 27:09 Robin Hall They make merino wool socks and apparel, and their parent company moved them to Denver, and our family looked at each other and said, we can't leave this incredible community of Steamboat Springs. 2 times in the scene
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
Advice Line with Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
- ▶ 6:45 unnamed speaker Um, I'm calling from Denver, Colorado. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Lara Merriken of LÄRABAR
Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin
Sonos: John MacFarlane
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
- ▶ 17:22 Tiffany Masterson So, my brother-in-law in Denver, who's married to my sister,
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman
- ▶ 1:03:47 Brett Schulman And, um, I was on a plane from Denver to Jacksonville and I get the most recent month report of Zoe sales.
When a robot cooks your lunch with Steve Ells of Chipotle and Kernel
- ▶ 0:17 Guy Raz Steve Ells was first on the show way back in 2017, and at the time, he told the story of how he built Chipotle from a single restaurant in Denver.
- ▶ 3:24 Guy Raz From the Steve Ells as the guy who, like, saw Mission Burritos in San Francisco and the steaming, you know, plates of beans to the guy who starts this restaurant in Denver and then scales it.
HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton
- ▶ 36:05 Alex Lofton And the next biggest market for us was, um, Denver, Colorado and very different.
HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti
- ▶ 21:19 Joe Laurienti We found it about 40 minutes north of Denver, Colorado, a little town called Berthoud.
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
- ▶ 24:26 Blake Scholl Brought it all to our facility in Denver, where we put it together.
- ▶ 25:34 Blake Scholl Uh, we finished late last year, our final Denver based taxi test.
- ▶ 35:14 Guy Raz And I know that you've partnered with United and obviously Chicago, Denver, huge hubs for United.
Osprey Packs: Mike Pfotenhauer
Zumiez: Tom Campion
- ▶ 35:37 Tom Campion I think that's gone now, and then we worked our way down into Denver.
Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
- ▶ 56:35 John Hendricks Comcast, Continental, Cox, Newhouse Family, and, of course, TCI, and then John was very close to a friend of his in Denver, Gene Schneider, who ran United Cable, which ultimately merged with United Artist to become United Artist Cable.
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 39:28 Chris Zarou So you had Denver, Colorado, and we'd settle the shows in cash.
Simple Mills: Katlin Smith
- ▶ 50:21 Katlin Smith It was the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, and Denver.
How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava
- ▶ 20:23 Mark Gainey You know, no longer could we ask them to be in our offices in Denver and San Francisco.
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti
- ▶ 41:23 J.P. Iberti Yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's a funny thing with kitchen, you know, a lot of people go into a kitchen and then move away to San Francisco, LA, Denver, Miami, and we had such roots in the kitchen we supplied that people ended up taking us…
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 53:58 Davis Smith Uh, we did them in San Francisco, in Las Vegas, in Denver, in Boise, in New York, in Boston.
S'well: Sarah Kauss
- ▶ 8:20 Sarah Kauss Yeah, so I, I took the CPA exam right out of college, and I went to work at Ernst & Young, I think the weekend after I graduated, and I, I was in Denver for two years working as an auditor, and then I moved to Los Angeles, and I was still… 2 times in the scene
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018)
- ▶ 29:47 Jimmy Wales And those kinds of sites have had almost zero impact at Wikipedia because while, you know, they might do well to share on Facebook something that comes from a publication called the Denver Guardian because, well, it looks like a news site,…
Tate's Bake Shop: Kathleen King
Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
- ▶ 3:06 Guy Raz Last month, I sat down with Kurt at the Paramount Theater in Denver in front of a live audience to hear how he built OtterBox.
- ▶ 33:40 Curt Richardson So, we were, we were looking for names, and I mean, pelican was the big animal in the room, and they still make great products, but, um, we were looking for a name, you know, we had a walrus, you know, seal cases, and we were driving to…
- ▶ 1:01:39 Guy Raz I spoke with Kurt Richardson at the Paramount Theater in Denver last month.
FUBU: Daymond John (2018)
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
- ▶ 0:05 Guy Raz It's happening in Denver on November 13th at the Paramount Theater. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:26 Guy Raz She grew up in the Denver area. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:58 Lara Merriken So, I ran down the mountain, I got out a notebook, and I started writing down ideas, and then when we got back to Denver, I said, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:01 Guy Raz Laura Merican is working at Whole Foods in Denver, and she's trying to figure out how to start a company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:49 Lara Merriken But we were operating out of a tiny duplex in Denver, so the overhead was extremely low.
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Dippin' Dots: Curt Jones
The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs
Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019)
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou
- ▶ 38:16 Chris Zarou So, you had Denver, Colorado, and we'd settle the shows in cash.
Live Episode! New Belgium Brewing Company: Kim Jordan
- ▶ 15:10 Kim Jordan We had a dairy manufacturer in Denver, um, fabricate it for us.
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
- ▶ 12:53 Miguel McKelvey Black Friday is on, uh, obviously the Friday after Thanksgiving, and I remember him calling me and saying, like, we have to have this store open, there's a problem in Denver, if we're not open, I'm gonna kill you, something to that effect,… 2 times in the scene
Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017)
Lyft: John Zimmer (2017)
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken
- ▶ 2:29 Guy Raz She grew up in the Denver area. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 Lara Merriken So, I ran down the mountain, I got out a notebook, and I started writing down ideas, and then when we got back to Denver, I said,
- ▶ 15:04 Guy Raz In Denver? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:53 Lara Merriken So, Whole Foods opened their first store in Denver.
- ▶ 23:00 Guy Raz Laura American is working at Whole Foods in Denver, and she's trying to figure out how to start a company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:48 Lara Merriken But we were operating out of a tiny duplex in Denver, so the overhead was extremely low.
- ▶ 37:26 Guy Raz So once you launch in Whole Foods and you realize that you're one of the top five sellers, it's just that one Whole Foods in Denver, right? 3 times in the scene
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
- ▶ 29:25 Jimmy Wales And those kinds of sites have had almost zero impact at Wikipedia because while, you know, they might do well to share on Facebook something that comes from a publication called the Denver Guardian because, well, it looks like a news site,… 2 times in the scene
Chipotle: Steve Ells
- ▶ 2:11 Guy Raz It was supposed to be a one-off burrito joint in Denver, a burrito joint that would generate enough cash to finance a high-end restaurant.
- ▶ 10:36 Steve Ells And a friend of mine was working in Denver and somehow met a commercial real estate broker.
- ▶ 19:11 Guy Raz oh right, burritos, San Francisco style burritos here in Denver?
- ▶ 22:08 Guy Raz Chipotle has a single store in Denver that's been open a few months, and it got a great first review from a local paper. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:04 Guy Raz Maybe we, maybe this is bigger than just Denver.
- ▶ 41:40 Guy Raz I mean, for a burrito restaurant started in Denver in 1993, um, that's pretty insane.
Samuel Adams: Jim Koch (2017)
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 11:38 Miguel McKelvey There's a problem in Denver. 2 times in the scene
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
Whole Foods Market: John Mackey
Samuel Adams: Jim Koch
Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
- ▶ 13:38 Joe Gebbia And specifically, Obama speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. 3 times in the scene