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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Florida comes up
Bogg Bag: Kim Vaccarella. The $100 Million Business She Almost Abandoned
- ▶ 6:31 Kim Vaccarella I had spent a very short stint in Florida with my biological father.
YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
- ▶ 11:18 Roy Seiders Uh, we were getting these aluminum holes built down in Florida, bringing them up to my dad's shop there in Driftwood and rigging them out.
- ▶ 14:36 Guy Raz And meanwhile, Ryan, um, I guess you have kind of a light bulb moment as well, uh, because I guess at some point, you're in Florida for a trade show, uh, and, and you go into, like, a hardware store or something, and you actually see some… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:20 Roy Seiders Yeah, down into Florida.
Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox
Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
- ▶ 1:24 Christina Latreverse I'm calling from Indian Atlantic, Florida. 4 times in the scene
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 7:05 John Gabbert He had, uh, purchased a home in Florida.
- ▶ 17:27 Guy Raz He was in semi-retirement already, from what I understand, going to Florida.
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
- ▶ 7:07 Anthony Cortez I'm calling from Miami, Florida, and I'm the CEO and founder of MotionFlix. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
- ▶ 30:24 John Rarick Currently we're in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida.
Advice Line: What’s Your Value?
- ▶ 29:44 Mark Goldfarb Very unique wholesale platform that reaches stores all over the country, and almost every week I get a new store from somewhere, whether it's California or Washington or Florida, and that has really helped grow the brand a lot, but, you…
Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork
- ▶ 9:20 Jane Barthel And the material comes, the main canvas comes from a manufacturer in Florida.
Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
- ▶ 28:28 John Osher I was about 50, and I was retired, I retired, and, uh, moved to Florida for a year or something, or so.
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyer's
- ▶ 33:01 Ben Rothenhafer 20 plus years of clients, she's moved away to Florida, so there's been discussion.
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.
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 17:12 Eric Alexson We're a Florida-based UV lifestyle brand built around one simple goal, to be the brand people play life in. 3 times in the scene
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- ▶ 9:46 Sal Khan Uh, but then we had to change our name because there was a band in Florida called Malignancy,
- ▶ 1:15:32 Mindy Horwitz One day I saw a parent from Boston advising a parent from Florida about the best dermatologist in St.
Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
- ▶ 45:01 Meredith Baer What happened is the LA Times Sunday, you know, did a story on me, and then the New York Times, all of a sudden we're getting phone calls from Connecticut, Manhattan, so we open up shop there, and then, you know, people want us to come to…
- ▶ 48:26 Guy Raz You've got one in Connecticut and Florida, and you're expanding into Manhattan.
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- ▶ 11:06 Travis Rosbach And so we bought tickets to fly to Florida.
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
- ▶ 8:15 Amy Errett They lived in Florida at the time.
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.
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 53:21 Josh Hochschuler Was that we really wanted to get into Publix, which is a chain in Florida. 4 times in the scene
Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross
- ▶ 24:30 Carrie Gross I just want to tell you that, like, our clients would travel, and they'd go to the Four Seasons in Maui, or they'd go to Florida and stay at a resort and see our products, and then they'd go back home, and they'd go to Nordstrom or Sephora…
Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner
- ▶ 55:36 Barry Turner Got a call from one of our retailers in Florida.
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
- ▶ 7:55 Michelle Wahler He was going to do some business consulting, but ultimately, my parents ended up moving to Florida, so they basically lost their home. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon
- ▶ 42:39 Melissa Spitz So I'm an occupational therapist, and it started, um, by me treating children in schools in Florida, and then one of the curriculum directors heard about it and said, wow, this would be really great for our school, and that kind of opened…
Marucci Sports - Kurt Ainsworth
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- ▶ 42:09 Scott Tannen And, um, we had a trip planned to go see Missy's parents who live in Florida 2 times in the scene
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 54:22 Matt Meeker I moved to Florida with my wife, followed her for her job.
Advice Line with Lara Merriken of LÄRABAR
- ▶ 20:07 Mariano Cuesta I'm based out of Miami, Florida. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
- ▶ 25:44 Adam Goldberg I'm in Tampa, Florida, and I'm a pet photographer. 2 times in the scene
Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
- ▶ 57:14 Michael Houlihan They were pricing items on their hands and knees on the linoleum and stores in places like Tallahassee, Florida, that you never heard of, just to keep it scanning on the gatekeeper screen.
Advice Line with Ariel Kaye of Parachute Home
Advice Line with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
Advice Line with Joe Kudla of Vuori
Advice Line with Tony Lamb of Kona Ice
Ouidad hair products: Ouidad Wise
Advice Line with Tom Rinks of Sun Bum
Advice Line with Andrew Abraham of Orgain
- ▶ 23:03 Turner Lewis Yes, I was actually on a golf trip with my best friend from medical school, Potter, and we were down in Florida playing 36 holes of golf a day, which is a lot of golf for old guys like us, but.
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
- ▶ 7:41 Ev Williams I actually moved to Key West, Florida, and, um, cause there was this marketing guru there who I wanted to study under, so I wasn't necessarily, I would just, I knew I didn't know anything.
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps
- ▶ 8:44 Jennifer Ballin We spend a lot of time shipping bagels, like I spend at least three hours a day shipping boxes of bagels to Utah, to Colorado, to Los Angeles, to Florida.
- ▶ 48:15 Guy Raz There's no salmon in Florida.
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
Unlocking the renewable energy revolution with Ramya Swaminathan of Malta Inc.
Jack Black Skin Care: Curran and Jeff Dandurand
Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
- ▶ 32:53 Kyle Clark We've commissioned a bunch down the East Coast, and right now we're building a network that connects Texas to Florida.
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
- ▶ 35:01 Paul Orfalea He went down to Florida, started opening his own stores. 2 times in the scene
The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- ▶ 10:35 Guy Raz So I guess you start off at Alabama State, which is in Montgomery, Alabama, but, but then you decided to transfer to, to Florida, to Florida A&M in Tallahassee.
- ▶ 49:05 Melissa Butler Um, was wonderful, and that inspired us to go on a second tour, and that's when we went on this, like, black college tour, so we went back to my alma mater, and to drive from Detroit to Florida is crazy, and a truck that's not so great,…
Chef and Restaurateur: Thomas Keller
- ▶ 10:10 Guy Raz So I guess eventually you, you started leaving Florida in the summers to work in kitchens up north, and, and I guess you spent a few summers in Rhode Island, and I read that your, your first job up there was, uh, this was like, uh, this…
- ▶ 13:16 Guy Raz You went back to Florida, and you actually helped two investors open a restaurant as the head chef.
- ▶ 27:34 Guy Raz You did, you had done it in Florida in your twenties, but that doesn't really count.
HIBT Lab! Babcock Ranch: Syd Kitson
- ▶ 0:12 Guy Raz Last year, when Hurricane Ian swept through Florida, it caused over a hundred and ten billion dollars worth of damage.
- ▶ 5:16 Syd Kitson We had the opportunity to take over a project that was failing in Florida and, and really enjoyed, uh, what Florida was all about. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:34 Syd Kitson And when you look at, you know, Florida as an example, a thousand people a day are moving down to the state of Florida. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:14 Guy Raz And I guess the state of Florida tried to buy it, but couldn't. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:29 Guy Raz We're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, more from Sid Kitson about turning an undeveloped plot of land in Florida into a solar-powered, climate-resilient community.
- ▶ 12:03 Guy Raz It's a climate-resilient, solar-powered community in southwest Florida.
- ▶ 14:56 Guy Raz So it's about 10, 15 miles outside of Fort Myers, Florida. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:05 Guy Raz This, the, the piece of land that you, uh, once you set aside the, you know, the, the state of Florida bought a, a big chunk of it to preserve, and then you were left with about 18,000 acres. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:26 Syd Kitson And in Florida, you gotta be really careful because you can easily default to just wanting to have
- ▶ 25:24 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Sid Kitson, founder of Babcock Ranch, an energy-independent community in Florida that's designed to withstand natural disasters like hurricanes and floods.
- ▶ 27:54 Guy Raz Hurricane Ian hits Florida. 2 times in the scene
Orangetheory Fitness: Ellen Latham
- ▶ 5:05 Guy Raz She worked at YMCAs, and later at a few high-end spas in Florida.
- ▶ 12:48 Ellen Latham There was this great desire to come here, and I knew I had to start to be a small fish in a big pond, but my husband at that time, and I moved here to Florida. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:16 Guy Raz All right, so meantime, you, you're building this reputation in Florida, and then in, like,
- ▶ 20:24 Ellen Latham I literally brought spinning to Florida.
- ▶ 53:24 Ellen Latham We had, you know, most of them being built in Florida around us, which made it easier to control.
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali
- ▶ 6:02 Guy Raz All right, so you, you dropped out, and I guess you weren't there too much longer, because I, I think around 2004, you moved to Florida when you were around 22, is that right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:51 Pete Maldonado I'm in Naples, Florida.
- ▶ 55:46 Pete Maldonado So I was down here in Florida, actually walking my English bulldog, taking her for a walk, and I get a call on my cell phone one day, and it's a, uh, very high up person at Trader Joe's that had been there for a long time, told me that her…
Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly
- ▶ 15:02 Maureen Kelly Florida, New Jersey, New York, you know, Italy, of course, like all over the, all over the world, but absolutely, um, there are in, in New York and New Jersey.
HIBT Lab! Goodr: Jasmine Crowe-Houston
- ▶ 32:31 Jasmine Crowe-Houston So we've spent a lot of time understanding how long food lives in Broward County versus Dade County in Florida versus, you know, Cobb County and Fulton County in Georgia, because every health department is different.
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.
HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz
Culver's: Craig Culver
- ▶ 17:32 Craig Culver We cash flowed immediately, and, uh, as a matter of fact, the first year, we closed for six weeks in the winter months to take a nice vacation to Florida, and that was the last time we did that.
Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
- ▶ 1:02:40 Randy Goldberg Uh, I went down to Florida, where my parents were living at the time, and my mom and I dealt with the arrangements, and we had like a really, like,
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
- ▶ 5:12 Guy Raz RJ grew up in the 19 eighties on the Space Coast in Florida.
- ▶ 21:39 Guy Raz Like you're in Florida, you're in this area where you grew up, it's you and get one or two people with you. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Guy Raz Florida could be this manufacturing center. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:43 Guy Raz In Florida, right, which is not actually a river, it's the ocean, right?
- ▶ 42:23 Guy Raz And was that connected to what you had done in Florida, where you actually did talk to the media and you said, hey, we've got this awesome car. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:10 Guy Raz Okay, so you, so similar kind of what you had done in Florida, you rented a warehouse, and you were actually building a prototype.
HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler
- ▶ 1:44 Polina Veksler We left when it was still the former Soviet Union, and my parents wanted a better life for myself and my brother, and the anti-Semitism at the time was quite high, and we were lucky enough to be able to leave and end up in Florida. 4 times in the scene
PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst
- ▶ 9:25 Pete Warhurst I heard that they were hiring firefighters down in Florida, and, uh, my best friend at the time had moved to Florida, and I said, you know what? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 Guy Raz Initially, imagining it was, you were expanding around Florida, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Guy Raz Is it, is it a very, I mean, it's Florida, so land was cheaper, is cheaper in Florida than other parts of, I mean, California, for example, where it's not cheap, but how much, do you remember how much it cost to set this whole thing up? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:41 Guy Raz So he's looking around Pinellas County, Florida, for a second facility.
- ▶ 36:34 Pete Warhurst He was one of the first people I met when I moved to Florida, and we've been friends for 50 years.
- ▶ 51:35 Guy Raz Were you doing that in Florida? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:00 Guy Raz You know, the people you met, the, the fact that you didn't get a job as a firefighter in New York City, but you got a job in Clearwater, Florida. 2 times in the scene
Florentine Films: Ken Burns
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- ▶ 27:00 Mitchell Gold Then I went to Levitt's in Florida, staying at my parents' condo there, and made a presentation on a Friday morning to Levitt's.
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 5:31 Jason Citron I actually, so this was shortly after he moved to Florida, and this is one of those things where it's like, if my family hadn't moved to Florida, like, maybe this would never have happened, and my whole life would have been different, but… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:10 Guy Raz You, you stayed in Florida.
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