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Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
- ▶ 9:18 Juliette Bruce Today, uh, I'm Juliette Bruce, and I'm calling from Provence, uh, in the south of France. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
- ▶ 19:55 Peter Andrews That's bringing together winemakers from not just South Africa, but California and France and even Australia this year.
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
- ▶ 1:12:32 Reed Hastings And we were the first to say, hey, with the internet, we can be direct to consumer in India, in Japan, in South Africa, in Brazil, uh, in France.
HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza
- ▶ 1:23 Guy Raz Was there a culture of being able to raise money from venture or investors in France at the time?
- ▶ 10:36 Nicolas Mermoud And we have sometimes this, uh, this reputation in France to be a bit critical and to be unsatisfied.
- ▶ 41:30 Nicolas Mermoud And we had one guy in France, Ludovic Pommet, and Karl Meltzer in, uh, in the U.S. who also did the same experience and adopted the shoes, like almost immediately, like on the, on the, on the very first day. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:42 Guy Raz Jean-Luc's Instagram shows him running up and down trails all over the world, and Nico has recently competed in ultra marathons in France, Switzerland, and Thailand.
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 32:47 Joan Barnes Well, we had, we, um, in addition to the, um, U.S. franchisees, we had sold Mexico, France, and we'd done those as, um, master franchises.
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- ▶ 4:40 Guy Raz JP Iberti, the JP stands for Jean-Philippe, was born in southern France.
- ▶ 11:12 Guy Raz You, you are originally from France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:24 J.P. Iberti You know, until I left France, I didn't realize how food was important to me, you know, and, um, 87 was a different time in America.
- ▶ 19:25 Guy Raz But when you were in France, uh, you did not speak French going in there.
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- ▶ 1:03:58 Val Griffith To know something about cogs, it's really, really important that you find another source for your caramel powder other than Brittany in France.
Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
- ▶ 15:02 Bobby Trussell We, we had this, um, mattress operation here, uh, but they made me CEO of the group, which included 26 countries, so all of a sudden, under my purview was, uh, you know, Spain and France and, and, uh, Japan, and what I learned there is,
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- ▶ 13:41 Travis Rosbach And he said, well, the owner's French, and she just got back from France, and her dad is a doctor, and he says there's this stuff called BPA, and we don't know what it is.
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
Advice Line with Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club
- ▶ 15:06 Michael Dubin Right.
Advice Line: Playing to Your Strengths
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…
UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
- ▶ 9:02 Chris Riccobono They thought, it's funny, I would go to France, and they thought that I was coming in with this big camera crew, and I would come in with my mom or my wife with this little camera, and they'd have all these high-end Bordeauxs lined up for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:08 Chris Riccobono You know, I'm, I'm dreaming of the, the coast of, of France, and, and I was, uh, like, it was, it was real.
Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie
Snap: Evan Spiegel
Advice Line with Jeff and Curran Dandurand of Jack Black Skin Care
- ▶ 18:16 Ashley Gold We design our own products, and we make them in small batch production all over the world, from the United States to France to the Czech Republic.
Hero Cosmetics: Ju Rhyu and Dwight Lee
Advice Line with Angie Hicks of Angi
- ▶ 45:11 Angie Hicks I'm like, we're, we're looking to go to France, uh, in the spring, and I think I am our only family member that has any French
Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
- ▶ 1:01:59 Michael Houlihan Well, we heard secondhand that one of the Baron's relatives was in the class and took the t-shirt back to France.
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 48:01 Andrew Mason Track stuff, and we were gonna miss our number in, in France the next quarter by ten million dollars.
The Cronut and Dominique Ansel Bakery: Dominique Ansel
- ▶ 3:35 Guy Raz In fact, he grew up in a working-class home in a small town in northern France where his dad worked in a factory.
- ▶ 3:43 Dominique Ansel I grew up in one of the poorest town in France.
- ▶ 11:13 Dominique Ansel That's, that's one of my saddest thing, you know, growing up in France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:36 Guy Raz And I guess we should mention that in France and in many, actually many countries, it's not like in the US where you could just declare bankruptcy and move on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:55 Dominique Ansel And I decided to import my butter and my flour from France.
- ▶ 1:00:51 Dominique Ansel Like, someone asked me once, would you have done this if you were in France? 2 times in the scene
Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
- ▶ 43:20 unnamed speaker Hi, my name is Diane, and I'm from Paris, France.
Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne
- ▶ 22:21 Renée Mauborgne And then on the other hand, if you get to France, they say, well, wait a minute, where's your local collateral?
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
- ▶ 13:21 Tiffany Masterson Um, and they did it with this magic Chlorienare, like this algae from France, and this Austrian clay that was, you know, they basically said it could do everything, right?
Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX
Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
When your dinner is printed with Eshchar Ben-Shitrit of Redefine Meat
- ▶ 31:55 Eshchar Ben-Shitrit But when we go to France, for example, the, the beef there and the way people consume beef, even a burger in, in France is a steak, not eaten in a bun, eaten with a knife and fork. 2 times in the scene
MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
- ▶ 4:03 Ally Svenson I was in Seattle, and then I knew I was going to be abroad for the year, and when I was in France, it was just about postcards and writing letters, and it started very subtly. 2 times in the scene
Chef and Restaurateur: Thomas Keller
- ▶ 11:49 Guy Raz I mean, Lyon, France, and he, this is a guy who you just kind of idolized. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:12 Guy Raz Meantime, you were still thinking or plotting how to get to France, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:02 Thomas Keller Well, I came back from France, um, with a certain arrogance, you know, a certain expectation.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League
- ▶ 42:57 Tim League Um, you know, there's, there's, uh, cinemas in France that don't allow any food at all into the cinema.
HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch
- ▶ 6:50 Guy Raz And you were doing this in France?
- ▶ 15:50 Lucie Basch So we didn't have an investment for the first year, um, so I actually, uh, after a few months, I moved back to France to launch the idea there as well, and I was lucky enough that I, I just went back to my parents, but you know, I had no,…
- ▶ 28:44 Lucie Basch It's a B Corp venture capital, um, based between, between France and the US.
Michael Kors: Michael Kors
- ▶ 14:58 Michael Kors It was jeans, t-shirts, and, and down jackets all made in France.
Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly
- ▶ 21:58 Maureen Kelly And then, um, I was told eventually that I would never be able to launch in France and England, um, specifically because of the name, and luckily we're a top brand in both now.
HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo
- ▶ 35:00 Beatriz Acevedo And we'd be, you know, same as Italy, same as France.
Guayakí Yerba Mate: David Karr and Chris Mann
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya
- ▶ 8:15 Hamdi Ulukaya I thought, okay, 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…
Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho
- ▶ 10:20 Kristian Tapaninaho I remember Trina and I were in, uh, in France for, for like a weekend.
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko
HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
- ▶ 5:24 Carlos Araque Originally a French company, but by the time I joined, they were truly an international company, and Schlumberger hired me in one of the Houston facilities to be an engineer, to design tools that would go downhole into an oil well and do…
- ▶ 31:57 Guy Raz I was just in France, and France gets a lot of its power from nuclear energy, which is amazing.
HIBT Lab! IDEO: David Kelley
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
HIBT Lab! The Financial Diet: Chelsea Fagan
- ▶ 8:44 Chelsea Fagan So in that sense, um, it was just, you know, a bit of a slog because, you know, I, I was going to school at the time in France, and I had a full-time job, um, so that was hard.
The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
- ▶ 37:54 Jimmy Fallon Taxi, because Queen Latifah just had a hit with Steve Martin, and, uh, it was the most successful film of all time in France.
Florentine Films: Ken Burns
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim
- ▶ 12:43 Ahmed Rahim And, uh, and so I stayed in Paris and France for almost two years.
Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
- ▶ 43:25 Guy Raz Get a cut of it in France, and then they just spend the next 10 years promoting Guy's Kombucha in France. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:06 Carla Bartolucci Yeah, there's a couple hundred acres, some in France, some in Germany, you know, Turkey, where people still grow it.
Food52: Amanda Hesser
- ▶ 16:57 Guy Raz All right, so you, you're kind of bouncing around Europe at this time, I guess, um, like working in restaurants and, and some bakeries, and, and I guess eventually you land in, in France, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:30 Guy Raz And meanwhile, I, I, I'm assuming you're still working on, on that book based on the time that you were in France, uh, which would become The Cook and the Gardener.
Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
- ▶ 13:08 Jack Conte And that comes from her because she grew up in France and Belgium.
McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John
- ▶ 10:21 Andréa McBride John Usually France, and very aristocratic, very formal, there's a process, there's guardrails around who does want, and so when you come from a place of where you just don't know what you don't know, um,
- ▶ 18:33 Guy Raz Which, I mean, at every level makes sense, including economic sense, because you think about, like, these really expensive Burgundies, right, from these chateaus in France, and, you know, people will buy, you know, a case of, of their wine…
- ▶ 49:01 Andréa McBride John And then we, we decided that we wanted to make a Riesling that was, uh, the great Rieslings of the world come from Germany and also from the Alsace region in France.
- ▶ 56:39 Andréa McBride John And then we started to try and figure out, like, is there a, is there a list, like, is there a list of black vintners, you know, and when we're talking about black vintners, we're obviously, we're talking about not just the United States,…
Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
- ▶ 34:29 Mark Constantine In Germany, in France.
The Laundress: Lindsey Boyd
- ▶ 9:06 Lindsey Boyd It was a sample, and the sample represented the size of the model war during the runway show, or, you know, the, the show in which it was represented in, in France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:16 Lindsey Boyd Um, so from bleach and detergent from Argentina, from France, from Greece, um,
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti
- ▶ 4:34 Guy Raz JP Iberti, the JP stands for Jean-Philippe, was born in southern France.
- ▶ 11:06 Guy Raz You, you are originally from France. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:56 J.P. Iberti But, um, yeah, and Todd ended up going to the south of France, which, where I'm from, so, you know, I connected him with all my friends, people I grew up with, and it was, um. 2 times in the scene
Tempur-Pedic: Bobby Trussell (2018)
- ▶ 15:20 Bobby Trussell And so, my friend Alan said, uh, this, uh, Swedish horse chiropractor wants me to sell it in France.
Shake Shack: Danny Meyer
- ▶ 8:11 Danny Meyer And then after that, the plan was that I was going to go cook in Italy and in France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:09 Guy Raz So you go to France, you learn a little bit more about cooking, and you come back to the U.S. with a plan to open a restaurant. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:40 Danny Meyer Before I went to France, I was taking a wine class at a place called L'Académie du Vin in New York, and there was a person in the class 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Live with Alli Webb and Andy Puddicombe & Rich Pierson
- ▶ 22:22 Rich Pierson Yeah, so if you go to headspace.com forward slash unemployed, and you put in some details about, you know, when you lost your job, when your last place of employment will give you free access for a year to the Headspace app for people in…
Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop
- ▶ 32:01 Rich Fulop I think we went to France and Israel. 3 times in the scene
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Ken Grossman
- ▶ 41:39 Ken Grossman And the alpha acids, the bitter acids, and those aromatic oils are geographic in some cases, so a variety that's growing in Oregon may be different, uh, same variety than it, it tastes in Yakima or Idaho, or if it's growing in France or in…
Remembering Jake Burton Carpenter
- ▶ 22:46 Jake Burton Carpenter And, but they did have manufacturing ability, and some of those French and Austrian companies were subsidized by their governments to keep their factories going.
EO Products: Susan Griffin-Black & Brad Black
- ▶ 25:47 Susan Griffin Black So, when you talk about lavender, lavender grows many places, but the best lavender is from France, and, you know, there's a certain taste level, just like with food and wine, about, you know, what smells best, what's the best quality, can…
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Chez Panisse: Alice Waters
- ▶ 9:02 Guy Raz So, in, in, in 1965, you are a student, and you had, I guess, an opportunity to study abroad, and you went to France. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:49 Guy Raz Or, or, or did you go back to Berkeley and just think, alright, I'm, I did my year in France, and now I'm back. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:50 Alice Waters Well, you know, I really consider that it was good luck that I went to France when it was really a slow food nation.
Five Guys: Jerry Murrell (2019)
- ▶ 27:01 Jerry Murrell We have a joint venture in Great Britain and France and Germany where we own
- ▶ 27:26 Jerry Murrell Uh, we're doing France.
Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
- ▶ 4:56 Emily Weiss Even in France. 2 times in the scene
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