Georgia, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 18Stephanie Stuckey 3Wendy Kopp 2Tony Lamb 2Sara Blakely 2Oliver Kharraz 2Nicole Bernard Dawes 2Lisa Price 2Joe Gebbia 2Joan Barnes 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Georgia comes up
Late July Snacks: Nicole Bernard Dawes. Crackers and Cookies were Failing… Tortilla Chips Saved Them
- ▶ 33:58 Nicole Bernard Dawes I mean, there was a lot of things going on, but none of it was working financially, so this factory down in Georgia was going to be a much better solution for us.
- ▶ 47:55 Nicole Bernard Dawes Well, it's not a challenging product to make, exactly, but also, now, we, we're still making most of our products down in Georgia at that factory, and my husband was going down there, like, weeks and weeks and weeks at a time, and our kids…
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
- ▶ 18:10 Peter Andrews So I'm now in Tennessee, Georgia, and Washington state, um, and working on a few more now through, hopefully before end of year.
Justin’s Nut Butter: Justin Gold. He Was Waiting Tables, Then...He Reinvented Peanut Butter.
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 1:01:32 Joan Barnes Georgia. 2 times in the scene
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
- ▶ 39:58 Stephanie Stuckey Georgia, Georgia grows more pecans than anywhere else in the world. 3 times in the scene
(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
- ▶ 3:51 Guy Raz He grew up in a small town in Georgia called Hepzibah back in the seventies and early eighties, not too far from a military base. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:05 Ben Chestnut I was just a bumbling idiot from Hepzibah, Georgia who stumbled into business and somewhere out there, someone knew the right answer of how to run my business.
Advice Line with Luis von Ahn of Duolingo
- ▶ 22:54 Blair Hastie Calling him from Atlanta, Georgia.
Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner
- ▶ 4:02 Guy Raz So when he started college in Georgia, he set his sights on wrestling.
- ▶ 36:34 Barry Turner He, uh, realizes he wants to leave California and go back to Georgia and be around his family. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Travis Boersma of Dutch Bros
- ▶ 5:43 Sean Chang I'm calling from Atlanta, Georgia.
Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 32:23 Francesca Thompson I'm Francesca Thompson from Atlanta, Georgia, the founder of Thrive 12. 2 times in the scene
Banana Republic: Mel and Patricia Ziegler
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps
- ▶ 20:47 Brandy Shelton Yes, my name is Brandy Shelton, and I'm the founder and co-owner of Just Add Honey Tea Company, a thoughtfully blended, loose-leaf tea company here in Atlanta, Georgia.
Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye
- ▶ 19:17 unnamed speaker I'm Jamila from Atlanta, Georgia.
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
- ▶ 28:13 Paul Orfalea Finally, Jimmy decided to take the South, the Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina area.
HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
- ▶ 29:51 Miles Copeland I then called up my brother Ian, who I had taken a job with an agency in Macon, Georgia, and I said, look, can you book me a tour in America?
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.
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
- ▶ 26:38 Charlie Clifford Uh, there was a company in Georgia run by a couple of brothers who basically, uh, had a very catchy ad that said they did great work for, uh, uh, for low prices, and that caught our attention.
- ▶ 44:46 Guy Raz You also had to tell your manufacturing partner in Georgia that you were moving your operations to Asia, that you could no longer afford to manufacture in the U.S.?
- ▶ 57:24 Guy Raz You offer total customization of a suitcase, and it's made in the U.S., in the very same place where you'd, you'd made the Toomey bags at the factory in Georgia, right? 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 5:45 Donnel Baird Um, and so there is an inefficiency in the energy system that I saw not only in Brooklyn, but in Cleveland and in Charlotte, on the South Carolina-Georgia border, and the Obama campaign that led me to believe that this was a persistent
- ▶ 32:01 Donnel Baird In D.C., and in Georgia, and in San Luis Obispo, and Oakland, California, and lots of places across the country who are headed this way, who've already passed laws that they're going to be a hundred percent green by the year 2030.
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 3:24 Guy Raz He grew up in a small town in Georgia called Hepzibah back in the seventies and early eighties. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:32 Ben Chestnut I was just a bumbling idiot from Hepzibah, Georgia, who stumbled into business, and somewhere out there, someone knew the right answer of how to run my business, right?
Casper: Philip Krim
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna
- ▶ 14:28 Toby Egbuna And also my dad was in consulting, so I graduated from UNC and moved to Boston to start working in management consulting, and I spent three years in Boston, and then actually moved to New York City, shifting a little bit more into…
Chilewich: Sandy Chilewich
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
- ▶ 55:46 Oliver Kharraz Piloted in, in Georgia initially in April, 2018. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Live with Alli Webb and Andy Puddicombe & Rich Pierson
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)
- ▶ 22:25 Wendy Kopp Um, New York City and L.A., New Orleans, um, Baton Rouge and southern Louisiana, and then two rural sites in, in rural, middle Georgia and, and eastern North Carolina.
Airbnb's Joe Gebbia At The HIBT Summit
- ▶ 3:35 Joe Gebbia I went back to Georgia.
Carol's Daughter: Lisa Price (2018)
- ▶ 10:50 Lisa Price So if, if someone told me about an expo in Georgia, that's fantastic, and the fee to get in is only 5000 dollars, I wasn't going there.
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp
- ▶ 22:30 Wendy Kopp Um, New York City and L.A., New Orleans, um, Baton Rouge and Southern Louisiana, and then two rural sites in, in rural, Middle Georgia and, and Eastern North Carolina.
Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)
- ▶ 10:35 Sara Blakely I couldn't find a single female patent attorney in the state of Georgia, and I even called the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and they said there isn't one.
Carol's Daughter: Lisa Price
- ▶ 10:04 Lisa Price So if, if someone told me about an expo in Georgia, that's fantastic, and the fee to get in is only 5000 dollars, I wasn't going there.
Music Mogul: L.A. Reid
Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
- ▶ 38:14 Joe Gebbia If you look at the first.com, you know, when I was growing up in Georgia, I was so enthralled by every day there was a new story of a new company that started in Silicon Valley or San Francisco, and that planted a very deep seed with me…
Spanx: Sara Blakely
- ▶ 10:00 Sara Blakely I couldn't find a single female patent attorney in the state of Georgia, and I even called the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and they said there isn't one.