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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Germany comes up
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
- ▶ 45:38 Laura Modi So, I went to the birthland, the homeland of Infant Formina, which is in Germany, and I came across a family-run manufacturer led by a woman, led by a mom.
- ▶ 55:21 Guy Raz You had a formula, you had an ingredient list, and from my understanding, the problem with, with how it was made in Germany wasn't the ingredients, but how it was made, like the order of operations or whatever.
Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit
- ▶ 34:02 unnamed speaker We import Macrolon, which is a Lexan plastic from Bayer Material Sciences in Germany, and so this is a material that's used by Audi and Bugatti for the headlamps, and it's known for impact resistance, it's known for optical clarity, and my…
Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
- ▶ 0:24 Guy Raz But as you'll hear, it all started back when Toby decided to move to Canada from Germany and start a snowboarding business.
- ▶ 2:30 Guy Raz But before all of that, Toby grew up in Koblenz, Germany, and as a kid, it was pretty clear to his parents that Toby was bright, but he also struggled with learning. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:49 Guy Raz I mean, you meet her on the ski trip, and what you say, I'm going back to Germany, but I think, like, I think there's something here. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:34 Tobias Lütke Like, I could try to work remotely again for a German company or something like this, oddly enough, that's okay.
- ▶ 11:25 Guy Raz I mean, I mean, you're like this German kid dating their daughter, you're living in their house, it's been a little weird.
- ▶ 25:16 Tobias Lütke Yeah, so, um, we decided it's gonna be software, and I called Daniel, who's a really good friend, my best friend, really, from, who was in Germany, and said, hey, here's what I would like to do, and I think I need another half year to…
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 11:21 John Gabbert And at that point, I think they had a couple stores in Sweden and one in Germany, maybe.
iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- ▶ 26:41 Aaron Krause And this company in Germany sends me this rock hard yellow foam. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:39 Aaron Krause It's literally locked into this one particular facility in Germany.
Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
- ▶ 5:23 Maya Miller I'm calling in from Neum in Germany. 2 times in the scene
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- ▶ 32:47 Ben Francis Yeah, and it was in that period then, so the following year we then started to do the events, we did our first event abroad in Germany,
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
- ▶ 38:36 Jeff Braverman Yeah, so this post-apocalyptic drama, like you said, got canceled on CBS, and fans decided to protest because in the last episode, there was this historical illusion, and it talked about, the details matter less, but a general says, the US…
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
WHOOP: Will Ahmed
- ▶ 23:04 Will Ahmed He was based in Hamburg, Germany.
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…
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
- ▶ 5:37 Rick Steves And, um, an old German guy said, uh, Steve's, you should import the finest pianos in the world from Germany.
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 25:04 Rick Steves I just wrote creative articles to turn people on to my favorite corners, the south coast of Portugal, Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, Arrow Island up in Denmark, you know, the Mosul River Valley instead of the Rhine for your castles in…
- ▶ 31:20 Rick Steves I was just amazed that we put up with such short vacations, and so it was 22 days in Britain, 22 days in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group
- ▶ 4:57 Guy Raz But in the meantime, I mean, you can't overnight create a trampoline factory in North Carolina or Germany or, you know, New Zealand.
- ▶ 20:32 Cody Johnson Um, I used something that they had used in Germany, and I brought it here and used it in my formulation.
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
- ▶ 14:22 Michael Houlihan That's a chrome's bottling line from Germany.
Advice Line with Jeff Raider of Harry's
- ▶ 4:25 Jeff Raider And so we went back to the factory in Germany and we said, this is a feature that lots and lots of customers really want.
On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti
- ▶ 26:28 Olivier Bernhard And this was the, this was really the moment in the car driving back from Germany when George and I said, let's do something with it.
- ▶ 44:49 Olivier Bernhard And Casper and I, we, uh, you know, attacked the German, Austrian, and Swiss market.
3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
Brewing creativity with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- ▶ 42:09 Mike Cessario Well, what they call that, it's called German black letter font, and that's why so much beer, because beer came from Germany, really, to the US.
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
Etsy: Rob Kalin
Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
- ▶ 20:43 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Jeff and Andy use Google Translate to partner with a razor factory in Germany and come up with the name Harry's because, well, it's friendly.
- ▶ 22:16 Guy Raz Germany?
- ▶ 25:42 Jeff Raider And, um, they were talking about this factory in Germany called Fine Technique that they said made some of the best double-edged blades in the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:33 Guy Raz You guys get these samples from Fine Technique, this factory in Germany, um, and I guess you decide we gotta go there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:08 Andy Katz-Mayfield Well, I remember a distinct, so we went back to Germany in May of 2012.
- ▶ 42:57 Andy Katz-Mayfield We actually had the razor blades shipped from Germany to China, where they were assembled onto the handle and put into the packaging there, so there was like an assembly operation in China.
- ▶ 48:10 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Jeff and Andy deal with the inevitable angst of marrying an old school German company with an upstart American one.
- ▶ 50:36 Andy Katz-Mayfield Uh, we then went to Germany to raise. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:58 Jeff Raider I would say at least half of that capital, those kind of early rounds of capital went to Germany to, um, you know, sort of build out, um, the factory, the plan.
Suitsupply: Fokke de Jong
- ▶ 1:05:53 Fokke de Jong You know, we opened our business in the U.S., but also we were in Germany.
HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Manduka: Peter Sterios
- ▶ 27:36 Peter Sterios And he said, yeah, it's this black mat from Germany. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:43 Guy Raz So it's 1997, and Peter has just learned that if he wants to get one of those thick black yoga mats from Germany, he'll have to buy a thousand of them, like 25,000 dollars worth. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:58 Guy Raz And, and I guess you, I mean, once you started to see how people responded to that first shipment, you, what, like, you went to, to, to Germany. 6 times in the scene
Guayakí Yerba Mate: David Karr and Chris Mann
- ▶ 4:40 David Karr I started in 89 and graduated in 95, so I had two years abroad, and so from, because my experience in France was so good, I ended up going to another language school in Germany for a few months,
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…
HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko
- ▶ 8:23 Paul Eremenko Aviation is a relatively small fraction, um, but that few percent is still more than the country of Germany. 2 times in the scene
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher
- ▶ 2:50 Jan Wurzbacher Personally, I'm originally from Hamburg in Germany, um, but now almost 19 years ago, moved to Zurich.
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
Audible: Don Katz
Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim
- ▶ 12:57 Ahmed Rahim And a buddy of mine in Paris invited me to go to Germany to do some work in the mountains there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:31 Ahmed Rahim The wall had just been taken down in Germany.
- ▶ 28:46 Ahmed Rahim Some, yeah, some, but some we didn't, because in Europe we would buy sometimes from middlemen, like in Germany.
Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 14:00 Amanda Hesser My first stop was in Germany, uh, in a small town in the Black Forest called, uh, Weingarten, and I worked in a bread bakery there, and I worked there for a few months, and it was a very old-school bakery in the sense that, uh, in the…
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves
- ▶ 5:03 Rick Steves And, uh, an old German guy said, uh, Steve, you should import the finest pianos in the world from Germany.
- ▶ 10:17 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…
- ▶ 24:30 Rick Steves I just wrote creative articles to turn people on to my favorite corners, the south coast of Portugal, Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, Arrow Island up in Denmark, you know, the Mosul River Valley instead of the Rhine for your castles in…
- ▶ 30:46 Rick Steves I was just amazed that we put up with such short vacations, and so it was 22 days in Britain, 22 days in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
How I Built Resilience: Troy Carter of Q&A (June, 2020)
McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John
- ▶ 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.
How I Built Resilience: Aishetu Dozie of Bossy Cosmetics
- ▶ 15:16 Aishetu Dozie And then our boxing packaging is in Germany.
Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
- ▶ 34:29 Mark Constantine In Germany, in France.
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
How I Built Resilience: Taha Bawa of Goodwall
How I Built Resilience: Live with Troy Carter
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 48:33 Davis Smith Right when I was moving back to the U.S., but before we'd started anything, I was at a school reunion for Lauder, the Lauder Institute with Wharton, and I was connecting with one of my closest friends, Stefan Jacob, who is from Germany,…
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Ken Grossman
- ▶ 39:59 Guy Raz So here's, here's now another question about this, right, which is, if you go to Germany, right, they've got this law where all German beers or certain kind of German beer has to have water, malts. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:40 Ken Grossman There was always some financial need we hadn't planned on, so we pretty quickly realized we better, we gotta grow, we gotta figure this out quick, and so I went, uh, over to Germany, um, I think in end of 8283, and I bought a defunct, uh,…
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
- ▶ 4:15 Katia Beauchamp I would fly, he lived in Germany, that's where they split up, and he stayed there, and I would fly there with my older brother, you know, you fly alone, and they. 2 times in the scene
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal (2017)
- ▶ 14:21 Gordon Segal We went to the German trade fairs in Cologne and Frankfurt and found all sorts of interesting products.
- ▶ 20:17 Gordon Segal And we finally found auto, uh, the auto group in Hamburg, Germany.
Evite: Selina Tobaccowala
- ▶ 47:42 Selina Tobaccowala So, there were a couple factors, but the biggest was that Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation, and it was, for me, the people and the culture is the most important thing, and it was very clear to me that the culture of the team that was…
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
- ▶ 4:28 Guy Raz But before all that, Toby grew up in Koblenz in Germany. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:47 Guy Raz I mean, you meet her on the ski trip, and what you say, I'm going back to Germany, but I think 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Tobias Lütke Yeah, so, um, we decided it's gonna be software, and I called Daniel, who's a really good friend, my best friend, really, from, who was in Germany, and said, hey, here's what I would like to do, and I think I need another half year to…
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Five Guys: Jerry Murrell (2019)
- ▶ 27:01 Jerry Murrell We have a joint venture in Great Britain and France and Germany where we own
Dermalogica: Jane Wurwand (2016)
- ▶ 18:04 Jane Wurwand And when I would ask them this, they would say, they were all European products, French, German, and Italian.
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
- ▶ 10:43 Kevin Systrom They all had, you know, email addresses from Germany and Hong Kong and, and various places around the world.
Chipotle: Steve Ells
- ▶ 2:28 Steve Ells You know, the earliest recollection I have of being in the kitchen and cooking was in the third grade, and we lived in Germany, and I remember cooking, uh, scrambled eggs.
Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
- ▶ 25:31 Alexis Ohanian Uh, well, uh, two months after we launched, my girlfriend had a pretty serious accident falling out of a five-story window in Germany.
Samuel Adams: Jim Koch (2017)
- ▶ 1:58 Guy Raz And this is beer that wins awards all over the world, and a lot of it even gets exported to places like Germany and Holland and Belgium, where beer brewing is practically a religion.
- ▶ 25:47 Jim Koch Heineken that's outlawed in Germany because of Germany's strict beer purity law, and the Becks they send us isn't the same Becks they have in Germany. 3 times in the scene
Five Guys: Jerry Murrell
- ▶ 26:05 Jerry Murrell We have a joint venture in Great Britain and France and Germany where we own, uh, with our partner half, that's about 60 stores, and then over here we own about 450 out of the 1400.
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal
- ▶ 13:55 Gordon Segal We went to the German trade fairs in Cologne and Frankfurt and found all sorts of interesting products.
- ▶ 19:51 Gordon Segal And we finally found auto, uh, the auto group in Hamburg, Germany.
Samuel Adams: Jim Koch
- ▶ 1:36 Guy Raz And a lot of it even gets exported to places like Germany and Holland and Belgium, where beer brewing is practically a religion.
- ▶ 25:18 Jim Koch Heineken that's outlawed in Germany because of Germany's strict beer purity law, and the Becks they send us isn't the same Becks they have in Germany. 3 times in the scene
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