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Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
- ▶ 12:33 Laura Modi I come from Europe, where parental leave was way longer than what we were offering here in the US.
- ▶ 19:12 Laura Modi So I went straight down the rabbit hole of doing the U.S. comparison to Europe very quickly. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:04 Laura Modi Manufacturing a product like infant formula in Europe meant that it didn't match the regulations of making infant formula here in the US.
MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant.
- ▶ 56:27 Nima Fotovat I'm like, oh, I go to Europe.
Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit
- ▶ 40:02 unnamed speaker This summer there's a World Cup in Europe, which we will see some former NHL players wearing our product.
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
- ▶ 38:44 Dominic Wyndham-Giddens I think the challenge is, the real challenge is it's actually, it's cheaper and easier for me to send goods to United States, the UK, and Europe than to get it to an island that's 30 minutes next to us.
Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
- ▶ 7:01 unnamed speaker So when we started, we were primarily wholesale, especially, you know, in Europe, there's a really big barefoot shoe market, um, but as we've grown, um, I'd say that our D to C has grown a lot, and that is, uh, by pairs sold, I think we…
Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 11:10 John Gabbert But, um, in 1972, I, I took a tour with a company to visit other retailers in the world, around Europe, primarily, and I went to Ikea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:51 Guy Raz So you have, uh, this trip to Europe, you see Ikea, and you come back to the U.S., and you're running Gabbert's, and you were seeing, at Gabbert's, you were seeing stuff that was, that I guess sounds like you didn't really like a lot of…
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
- ▶ 35:55 Gregg Renfrew I felt like the lot of the aspirational brands were either coming from Asia or from Europe, and I just really cared about creating jobs and, and being able to physically visit these places and not outsource everything to China.
KIND bars: Daniel Lubetzky. From peace in the Middle East to a $5 billion snack bar
- ▶ 6:52 Guy Raz In Europe, and presumably doesn't speak Spanish, and had no, had no education for the previous seven years during the war, I'm assuming.
- ▶ 13:53 Daniel Lubetzky The most fun business was that I was a magician, and I studied one year abroad, and I helped pay for my studies by traveling and doing shows in the streets of Paris and the streets of all over Europe.
- ▶ 18:25 Daniel Lubetzky He was buying all the stuff in Europe, and it was very expensive, so I start mapping up with Joel.
iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
- ▶ 24:27 Sri Halima So from originally making samples through to, uh, tens of thousands of units, um, and all the production is actually based in Europe as well.
- ▶ 29:05 John Rarick There's a disease that has hit most of Europe's vines called fleroxa, the bug that affected many of the vineyards.
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
- ▶ 29:17 Guy Raz It's, it's, you've recovered from the crisis, but it's still a pretty small regional brand, and you go on a trip to England, a motorcycle trip with your nineteen-year-old son in 1987, and this is going to become a very important trip, but… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:04 Cameron Healy It was a alternative to the industrial approach to making beer, and yeah, I, my son had, same son that I went to Europe with the motorcycle had gone to.
Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
- ▶ 6:40 John Osher The excitement of it wore off, but I took the money, and I went to Europe for the summer, bought an MGB at the factory. 2 times in the scene
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
- ▶ 1:05:23 Reed Hastings So that would affect, like, going into Europe, going into original content, pricing changes, so that everyone knows where everyone else stands.
- ▶ 1:13:06 Reed Hastings Uh, then we did Latin America, and then country by country in Europe, and then in 2016, we did the whole world ex-China.
HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- ▶ 18:29 Guy Raz Hey, I'm gonna go overseas, because you went to Europe, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 Guy Raz So, so Todd, um, while you were in Europe, I guess you actually wrote down a business plan while you were there, right?
- ▶ 1:00:15 J.P. Iberti It's not that way in Europe, and, um, this country is amazing.
Advice Line: Tapping AI as a Resource for Your Business
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 18:57 Eric Alexson I grew up in Florida as a competitive tennis player, played college, played kind of division, triple A baseball level professional team tennis in Europe, but I actively sought out opportunities to teach tennis indoor because mom and dad…
- ▶ 31:15 Chris McElroy We sell in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Europe.
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- ▶ 53:05 Travis Rosbach We were all over Europe and Asia and starting in on the South Pacific, and I was a little tired of being on the road and living in hotels and in the factories, and I felt like that season was just drawing to an end.
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- ▶ 13:52 Ben Francis The, the biggest and the best bodybuilding and lifting event, as far as I was aware, certainly in the UK, possibly Europe was actually run out of Birmingham and it was called the body power event.
- ▶ 34:43 Ben Francis And we didn't know any European suppliers, and Steve did know European suppliers, so that was then, I guess that was the, the relationship, was we went, we worked through the business that Steve worked for to, to get some product made in,… 2 times in the scene
Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
- ▶ 54:16 Jeff Braverman I look at the futures daily because we have a little chocolate business, and we buy lots of cocoa both here and in, in, in Europe.
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft
- ▶ 41:30 John Zimmer I do have my iPhone that I took the SIM card out of, because I was in Europe at the time, and they have removable SIM cards, which was helpful.
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 57:12 Nirav Tolia And so then within a series of months, COVID had run through Europe enough that there was some herd immunity.
Advice Line: Playing to Your Strengths
Simon Cowell: Music Mogul
- ▶ 37:14 Simon Cowell So I've got every pressing plant across Europe
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya (2022)
- ▶ 7:39 Hamdi Ulukaya I thought, ok, I'll go to Europe, just because everybody else did at the time, and I had a passport, luckily, so I was thinking, like, I would go to France, I would go to Germany, or somewhere around in Europe, and I was talking to my… 5 times in the scene
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
- ▶ 1:27 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Rick Steves backpacked around Europe on bread and jam and a few dollars a day, and turned his passion for no-frills travel into a one hundred million dollar brand. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:10 Rick Steves Even to this day, you know, I, I, I can't go into a, a building in Europe when I'm traveling if I see a piano without checking out the name of it, or I squint to see, you know, at the, on the, on the TV special, what piano did that person… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 Guy Raz So, age 14, your parents take you to Europe for this trip, and this, this trip really, I guess, was like, was revelatory, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:51 Rick Steves And, um, I remember on the, the next trip to Europe, I was in a, in the train station in Copenhagen, going between the piano factories in Germany and the relatives in Norway, and I saw these backpackers, and this was back in a time when… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:36 Guy Raz You went on a solo, or you went with a friend, I guess, um, to Europe. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:17 Rick Steves We had a recital hall where twice a year the kids would do their recitals, and I bought a coffee machine where I could actually serve coffee in styrofoam cups to all the parents, and it was just, for me, it was just like so happy to do… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:57 Guy Raz Was it like, here's how you get to Europe, here's where you stay, here's, or, or was it, you know, what were, yeah.
- ▶ 27:34 Guy Raz You know, leading these lectures and talking about going to Europe, I mean, were you just saying, look, you can do this.
- ▶ 29:20 Rick Steves And I'd love to take people around Europe on these minibus tours.
- ▶ 38:50 Guy Raz So it's around 1991, and from his home in Edmonds, Washington, Rick Steves is running a pretty successful travel business, writing guidebooks and doing small tours of Europe for months at a time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:46 Rick Steves Yeah, it was very, it was, um, I remember the first time I ever saw somebody with my book in Europe.
- ▶ 49:02 Guy Raz Um, you are also going to Europe for, to lead tours.
- ▶ 54:15 Rick Steves I'm spending a third of my time in Europe making TV. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:15 Guy Raz Like, writing about Europe through the back door in 1982 meant one thing, but today it's like every spot on earth, you go, whether Cinque Terre in Italy, or 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:59 Rick Steves I, uh, I care about, uh, homelessness, uh, here, you know, I try to make sure people can find an affordable hotel when they're traveling in Europe, and I know a lot of people will never see their name on a plane ticket, because life is just 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:42 Guy Raz Do you think that your audience is getting older, or do you think that you are still appealing to, like if you're, if you're a young traveler today, like when I was 20 and I went all over Europe. 2 times in the scene
UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
- ▶ 57:46 Chris Riccobono We had expansion plans across Europe, and we had a growing women's brand with zero marketing.
Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group
- ▶ 4:51 Steve Holmes We've made some significant investments in Europe.
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
- ▶ 1:10:59 Michael Acton Smith But, um, the other challenge was that we had moved back to Europe and London, and most of our employees, hundreds of the team were based, uh, in the US.
Advice Line: Scaling Strategies
- ▶ 34:47 Peter Houck European countries, especially.
Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
- ▶ 47:09 Carrie Gross We actually, in 2023, launched into Sephora Europe, so I think we opened something like 17 countries in a period of, like, three months.
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 8:40 Niklas Zennström Lycos, exactly, and, and all those kind of things was so exciting, and at the same time, actually, there was a dot-com boom also in Europe, in particular in Sweden, there were quite a few online companies that were set up in, at the same…
- ▶ 27:37 Guy Raz And trying to presumably get out, go back to Europe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:54 Niklas Zennström It wasn't very successful, but the other thing we did was traveling, um, uh, as you know, like the great thing in Europe is that it's easy to travel between different countries, so you take your mobile phone, travel to another country, and…
- ▶ 40:32 Niklas Zennström Yeah, so we, we, we went around in Europe, we went to kind of all the VCs, and we tried to raise money, and were unsuccessful, and we thought that these VCs, they are, they don't get it, and the model for European VCs at the time was to…
- ▶ 49:34 Niklas Zennström So that was, so we moved to London because we thought launching a global online company, internet company from, from Europe, London is the best place.
- ▶ 1:04:51 Niklas Zennström Yeah, so, I think, for me, there was a need for better investors in Europe. 3 times in the scene
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 8:50 Mark Lawrence Um, I was gonna start in Alexandria, Egypt, and then go to Cape Town, but, um, the person I was supposed to go with, Brandon, he biked, he started in Europe, and then he biked all across Asia, and we were supposed to meet up in Africa.
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
- ▶ 1:11:49 Monica Nassif I go to a couple trade shows in Europe, look at fabrics, and I thought, I'm just going to start a small line of luxury sleepwear.
Black Diamond Equipment: Peter Metcalf
- ▶ 38:35 Peter Metcalf Sport climbing developed in Europe in the 19 eighties, where there's so much limestone.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 40:23 Rod Cuthbert A product manager, her name was Dominique Exman, a young Australian woman who, who was managing our, our key European locations, and she was in Rome talking to one of the, the tour operators we worked with there about the Vatican Museum,…
Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
- ▶ 1:03:19 Michael Houlihan It was over the Thanksgiving weekend, and they wanted to know, you know, what I was going to do about the potential of being sued by the Baron, one of the richest guys in Europe. 2 times in the scene
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
Olipop: Ben Goodwin
- ▶ 17:08 Guy Raz It's a little bit like buttermilk, but it's more common in Europe.
- ▶ 39:23 Ben Goodwin it certainly wasn't the outcome that we, that we were looking for, but it's also, you know, I don't know, you may know this about, um, Europe and maybe it's changing, but the entrepreneur culture is quite different in Europe as well, right? 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Banana Republic: Mel and Patricia Ziegler
- ▶ 34:15 Patricia Ziegler Um, so we were looking for more European or foreign things, and we found a box of belts from Argentina and, um, some Swedish gas mask bags.
Specialized Bicycle Components: Mike Sinyard
- ▶ 1:29 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Mike Signard started out in the bike business by importing parts from Europe, and then built Specialized into a world-class brand, which helped put mountain biking on the map.
- ▶ 8:53 Mike Sinyard And then there were bikes from Europe that were to dream about. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:40 Guy Raz Alright, so, so you, I guess, around 74, you decide to take a bike tour through Europe, to, to go to Europe, take a bike tour. 4 times in the scene
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On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti
- ▶ 8:29 Caspar Coppetti At 14, I was already sponsored, and I was traveling to, to races across Switzerland, and some in Europe as well.
- ▶ 40:30 Caspar Coppetti Um, there's a, a large sporting goods show in Europe called ISPO, and every year they give out an award.
- ▶ 54:59 Guy Raz So it's 2013, and on sneakers are becoming popular among runners in Europe. 2 times in the scene
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Advice Line with Maureen Kelly of Tarte Cosmetics
Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
- ▶ 33:53 Gene Berdachevsky From a national security standpoint and from a regional security standpoint, there's a lot of good reasons that we want production of anode materials in the U S Europe wants production of anode materials in Europe. 2 times in the scene
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 1
Building a decarbonization army with Shashank Samala of Heirloom
Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye
- ▶ 0:51 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Arielle Kaye realized she could cut out the middlemen and sell European-made luxury bedsheets online, and eventually grew her idea into Parachute Home. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:14 Ariel Kaye I had already also decided that if I was going to do this, I was going to manufacture in Europe, because as I was talking to friends and really figuring out that absolutely no one knew a single brand that was on their bed, they could just… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:31 Guy Raz Like, these sheets are better than anything else because, uh, they're made in Europe and they're really high quality. 2 times in the scene
Brewing creativity with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- ▶ 49:32 Mike Cessario I'm going to start Googling Europe, canning, water, co-packing in Europe. 3 times in the scene
Aviator Nation: Paige Mycoskie
- ▶ 7:45 Paige Mycoskie I think he had been to Europe, but I had never traveled at all, so it was
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