FedEx, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 9Mei Xu 4Abhi Ramesh 4Tony Xu 3Miguel McKelvey 3Chris Urmson 3Whitney Wolfe Herd 2Wendy Kopp 2Kate Spade 2Josh Hochschuler 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where FedEx comes up
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company.
- ▶ 59:01 unnamed speaker And FedEx and UPS both have big warehouses or distribution centers, one in Indianapolis, one in Louisville, right down the road from us, so we can get to a big part of the country right away, and what we can't get, we'll get out of Arizona.
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
- ▶ 11:45 Danae Ringelman After that night, I was kind of in shock and just trying to digest it all, and two days later, I just remember receiving a FedEx package from one of the theater producers I had met that night with a handwritten note that said, you know, it…
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
- ▶ 16:15 Jeff Braverman Uh, we would type in the UPS or FedEx shipping label ourselves.
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 54:51 Josh Hochschuler So I call his wife, and we're saying, grab a suit, grab a tie, stick it into a, an envelope in a FedEx, go to a FedEx location, and within a short period of time, I will have an address for you. 2 times in the scene
Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
- ▶ 35:18 Abhi Ramesh Yeah, it did work, but very quickly I realized that having my own drivers go and deliver these things was just way too hard, and I was just, I was doing work that other people had already done, the big logistics providers, um, and so… 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
Advice Line with Jeff Raider of Harry's
- ▶ 20:52 Travis Leahy So as Amazon and UPS and FedEx each day, they show up and they can deliver up to a hundred packages a day for these properties.
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- ▶ 54:39 Mike Cessario Like, if you try to go to FedEx right now and ship a 12 pound case of liquid death, they're gonna probably charge you 20 dollars just to ship it.
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
- ▶ 32:04 Scott Norton Mark would FedEx me, you know, a package of different ketchup samples to taste halfway around the world, and it was about this time when we started, you know, thinking about, like, incorporating the business.
Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
Orgain: Andrew Abraham
- ▶ 30:59 Andrew Abraham And I was up next, and I have, uh, my sneakers on, and I have, uh, 10 pages that I had printed in Kinko's in color.
When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
- ▶ 24:46 Chris Urmson Well, yes, and the way we think about it is if you're FedEx, who's one of our partners today, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:42 Guy Raz So by the end of 2024, when, when this is now commercially available, do you expect a company like FedEx 3 times in the scene
Osprey Packs: Mike Pfotenhauer
- ▶ 27:32 Mike Pfotenhauer I knew that it was possible to ship out of Dolores using UPS or FedEx.
HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
- ▶ 36:23 Dave Ferguson So right now, I mean, most of us get umpteen packages delivered from Amazon, FedEx, and others, and there's a challenge associated with trying to do that with a self-driving vehicle, because
PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst
HIBT Lab! WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 19:23 Miguel McKelvey The position that we were in was that if we have one member who needs to come into the building to get something, whether that's a, who knows what, a FedEx delivery or a hard drive that they left in their office, like we absolutely have to…
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
- ▶ 13:19 Mac McCaughan So then I had a year off, which was awesome, because it was, you know, living in North Carolina, playing music, working at Kinko's, and Pizza Place, and record store, and Just doing different things.
- ▶ 38:01 Laura Ballance And, you know, it sort of got harder to keep a job at Kinko's because you'd be gone for six weeks or two months, and then you'd come back and
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- ▶ 47:35 Nikhil Arora You know, a mentor of ours, and actually, I remember the first time we took this big, uh, like, basketball-sized bag that we were growing these mushrooms in, and we had slapped a sticker on it from FedEx.
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 23:40 Gary Vaynerchuk Yes, comma, in 2000, we opened it up a little more as FedEx and UPS became more progressive.
Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim
- ▶ 34:01 Ahmed Rahim Is it all just shipped via, you know, the UPS FedEx system, or is it distributors?
Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
- ▶ 52:12 Jeff Martin I mean, we were all hustling, including the FedEx guy.
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
- ▶ 33:11 Adam Lowry I was in the factory doing that, twenty-four-seven for weeks in preparation for this meeting, so I was, like, sleeping on the factory floor and doing that whole thing, and then I FedExed this thing first overnight to Eric for the pitch.
Supergoop!: Holly Thaggard
- ▶ 27:58 Holly Thaggard FedEx, we did mailing samples, and then I'd give feedback on those samples, and I just kind of passed them around to my family and asked what they thought of this goop or that goop.
S'well: Sarah Kauss
- ▶ 37:45 Sarah Kauss and I said, listen, I need you to make me two bottles each in these six colors and FedEx them here.
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
- ▶ 1:00:39 Tomo Delaney I got a box from FedEx from him, and I opened it, and it was full of these little Tupperware pots, and he'd mixed the fruit puree, fifty-fifty, with coconut oil.
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)
- ▶ 27:06 Wendy Kopp To FedEx.
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Bumble: Whitney Wolfe (2017)
- ▶ 10:07 Whitney Wolfe Herd And then I took a picture of one of my guy friends on campus, and I, I dropped them into the match screen, like the, the Tinder screens, and I wrote a big thing on top of it saying, find out who likes you on campus, and I saved the file,…
DoorDash: Tony Xu
- ▶ 15:01 Tony Xu So on the first piece, um, we would, you know, do deliveries for services like Domino's or FedEx, and we would learn, well, how, how does deliveries actually work? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:47 Tony Xu I know we know about the FedEx's and the UPS's, of course, and the Postal Service, but there are 800 plus companies just delivering parcel that we've researched, and I'm sure around the country.
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan
- ▶ 31:43 Adam Lowry I was in the factory doing that, twenty-four-seven for weeks in preparation for this meeting, so I was like sleeping on the factory floor and doing that whole thing, and then I FedExed this thing first overnight to Eric for the pitch.
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
- ▶ 21:11 Miguel McKelvey Uh, basically, I remember I went to Kinko's and had business cards made, had some little, like, promotional flyers.
Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade (2017)
- ▶ 21:51 Kate Spade And I thought I could go back and forth, and at the time, Elise and Pamela would hold down the New York part, and I would do FedExing all my designs and materials, and I rented a little house that I called the house I never lived in.
Bumble: Whitney Wolfe
- ▶ 9:41 Whitney Wolfe Herd And then I took a picture of one of my guy friends on campus, and I, I dropped them into the match screen, like the, the Tinder screens, and I wrote a big thing on top of it saying, find out who likes you on campus, and I saved the file,…
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp
- ▶ 27:11 Wendy Kopp To FedEx.
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 19:49 Miguel McKelvey Uh, basically, I remember I went to Kinko's and had business cards made, had some little, like, promotional flyers.
1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
- ▶ 18:22 Brian Scudamore We would be the FedEx of junk removal, clean shiny trucks, friendly uniformed drivers.
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade
- ▶ 21:50 Kate Spade And I thought I could go back and forth, and at the time, Elise and Pamela would hold down the New York part, and I would do FedExing all my designs and materials, and...