Detroit, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 52Melissa Butler 17Darina Garland 4Troy Carter 3RJ Scaringe 3Monique Rodriguez 3Jonathan Poneman 3Hamdi Ulukaya 2Eric Ryan 2Chip Wilson 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Detroit comes up
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company.
- ▶ 15:12 Chuck Surack I'd take it up to Detroit, other studios like that.
- ▶ 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…
Advice Line with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation
- ▶ 25:26 Phil Halstead We're down in Detroit area, so we've got some distribution down there, about 10, 15 stores, but absolutely, we need to get more people to trial it, and then follow through.
Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
- ▶ 19:21 Nawal Audi My name is Nawal Audi calling from Detroit, Michigan.
Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
- ▶ 39:46 John Osher So we all left, went, wonder, I went to Detroit, somebody went to Toledo, Columbus, setting them up, putting them out on the, as the test was supposed to be, and then going back each day, and that's when we found out that we'd put them…
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 33:54 Joan Barnes We were all over, um, suburban Detroit, suburban Minneapolis, um, Atlanta, Florida.
Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- ▶ 12:50 Guy Raz Uh, and, and you, I think initially you're in Boca Raton for some time, you're in Detroit for, for part of the time.
- ▶ 14:02 Craig Newmark Well, 17 years at IBM, Boca Raton, Detroit, a year in Pittsburgh, but I got tired at the East Coast, ah, so I wanted a change.
Don Vultaggio: AriZona Beverage Company - The Snap Decision That Outsmarted Snapple
(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
- ▶ 12:22 Ben Chestnut Um, I thought that I would study this, um, and maybe move off to Detroit and be a car designer or something.
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.
Whisker/Litter-Robot: Brad Baxter
Advice Line with Alberto Perlman of Zumba
- ▶ 7:41 Stephanie Miller I'm calling out of Detroit, Michigan.
Advice Line with Lyndon Cormack of Herschel Supply Co.
What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 1
- ▶ 26:17 Brian Rudolph And Meijer, I think, saw that we were a Detroit-based business and was excited to work with a local business, and they wanted to carry our products in all of their stores, which accelerated our entire timeline.
Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne
The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- ▶ 0:48 Guy Raz So last year, to mark the 10th anniversary of her beauty brand, the Lip Bar, Melissa Butler hung a billboard in her hometown of Detroit, and it said, Shark Tank told me to quit.
- ▶ 4:30 Guy Raz The story of how Melissa turned her kitchen stove project into a cosmetics brand that's now in hundreds of Target stores across the country includes a cross-country promotional tour in a retrofitted airport shuttle bus, a disastrous…
- ▶ 5:10 Melissa Butler You know, Detroit is automotive, so she was at a steel company that created steel and parts for the automotive industry. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 Guy Raz And I guess you were able to test into this pretty competitive public high school in Detroit called Cast Tech, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:06 Melissa Butler Like, I came from black Detroit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:17 Guy Raz And does anybody in your, I mean, your mom, like, you know, she had to work really hard to, um, you know, to make a living, to support you, and then you go off to college, and I'm sure so many people are so proud of you, and you had…
- ▶ 43:14 Guy Raz And I guess around 20 13, maybe 2014, you decide to move it to Detroit, like, to go back to where you grew up. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:52 Guy Raz So it's around 2014, and Melissa Butler has left New York and moved the business to her hometown of Detroit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:57 Guy Raz Alright, so you come back to, you come back to Detroit, and eventually this, this Shark Tank episode airs, because I think they, they end up airing like six or seven months after they're actually filmed.
- ▶ 1:02:09 Guy Raz And then in twenty-nineteen, you decided to actually open a brick-and-mortar store in Detroit, um, which is, I think, really close to the Shinola store, right? 3 times in the scene
Mielle Organics: Monique Rodriguez
- ▶ 42:31 Monique Rodriguez So the first influencer that we worked with was, uh, I guess she was a celebrity influencer at the time, and I saw that she was gonna be at this beauty event, and it was in Detroit. 3 times in the scene
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya
- ▶ 35:49 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.
Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho
- ▶ 1:08:20 Darina Garland There's, you know, New York and Roman pizza and Detroit, and, you know, there's, they're very different. 4 times in the scene
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
- ▶ 21:59 RJ Scaringe It was actually a warehouse I rented from my dad, and that was what we worked out of initially, and then to make a prototype, we had to figure out how to, how to do that, so started traveling back and forth to Detroit to meet with some of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:41 Guy Raz All right, so you know that the future is electric, and, and you're going to be building trucks and SUVs, and then, I guess, in like, 2013, uh, you guys decide to relocate to Michigan, like, just, just outside of Detroit, and, and it means…
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 11:54 Ben Chestnut Um, I thought that I would study this, um, and maybe move off to Detroit and be a car designer or something.
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Kaitlin McGreyes & Nicole Argüelles
- ▶ 13:39 Kaitlin McGreyes Is a black grandmother doula from, you know, inner city Detroit, and she is helping us in this diversification and breaking from our norms and our patterns, and so it's painful work to do that.
The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler
- ▶ 3:47 Guy Raz The story of how Melissa turned her kitchen stove project into a cosmetics brand that's now in hundreds of Target stores across the country includes a cross-country promotional tour in a retrofitted airport shuttle bus, a disastrous…
- ▶ 4:27 Melissa Butler You know, Detroit is automotive, so she was at a steel company that created steel and parts for the automotive industry. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:56 Melissa Butler Like, I came from black Detroit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:32 Guy Raz And does anybody in your, I mean, your mom, like, you know, she had to work really hard to, um, you know, to make a living, to support you, and then you go off to college, and I'm sure so many people are so proud of you, and you had…
- ▶ 45:31 Guy Raz I guess around 20 13, maybe 2014, you decide to move it to Detroit, like, to go back to where you grew up. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:48 Guy Raz So, it's around 2014, and Melissa Butler has left New York and moved the business to her hometown of Detroit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:19 Guy Raz All right, so you come back to, you come back to Detroit, and eventually this, this Shark Tank episode airs, because I think they, they end up airing like six or seven months after they're actually filmed.
- ▶ 1:09:09 Guy Raz And then in twenty-nineteen, you decided to actually open a brick and mortar store in Detroit, um, which is, I think, really close to the Shinola store, right? 6 times in the scene
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
How I Built Resilience: Live with Y-Vonne Hutchinson
- ▶ 1:21 Y-Vonne Hutchinson Yeah, and I, you know, I, I, I talked to my mother the other day who was, um, in Detroit during the 68 riots, and she was like, you know, this feels the exact same, but it also feels different, because the, the people, the diversity of…
Sub Pop Records: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman
- ▶ 2:13 Guy Raz Just like Barry Gordy and his Motown label brought the sound of Detroit to radios around the world, Sub Pop and its co-founders Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt helped turn Seattle into a global brand of music and culture.
- ▶ 8:40 Jonathan Poneman And then Detroit itself, while I was a young teenager and couldn't get into clubs, there were still so many great rock shows and radio stations in Detroit at that time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:09 Guy Raz I know I'm talking cliches here, but like, it is pretty crazy that you wanted this label to be like Motown was to Detroit.
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
- ▶ 26:40 Chip Wilson So I, over the next couple of years, I just started doing alliterations in my mind and with L's, but it was a pretty risky name at the time because lemon was really connected with, uh, really bad quality Detroit cars.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Troy Carter
- ▶ 13:48 Troy Carter We met him in Detroit probably 3 times in the scene
Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson
- ▶ 25:49 Chip Wilson But it was a pretty risky name at the time, because Lemon was really connected with, ah, really bad quality Detroit cars.