Gymboree, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 43Joan Barnes 22Susan Tynan 2Barb Heilman 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Gymboree comes up
Advice Line: "Strategy Sessions"
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 2:41 Guy Raz Gymboree. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:13 Joan Barnes So I, um, the then husband and I, Bill Barnes and I sat with a, wrote down a gazillion names and things like that, and then he calls me from a phone booth where he's running around the Embarcadero and said, Jim Burry, and I just loved it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:10 Joan Barnes And if any one of the management team of, of the company thought that this person was not a good fit for us, that was a veto. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:15 Guy Raz I mean, I even, at some point, People Magazine wrote, move over romper room, all the best babies come to boogie at Joan Barnes's Gymboree. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:23 Joan Barnes Licensing, you know, Gymboree had a really great name, as you said. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:21 Guy Raz Runs Gymboree. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:52 Guy Raz I read that you guys, that Jim Rue was down to 50,000 dollars in cash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:32 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, the clothing line goes forward, but Joan has to step back and leave the company for good.
- ▶ 52:04 Guy Raz So, it's 1986, and just as Gymboree is about to launch its own line of kids' clothing, The Gap says it's going to do the same thing. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:27 Joan Barnes I did, and I managed it by building a gym in the Gymboree headquarters and making everybody come at lunchtime to an aerobics class so I could settle myself down.
- ▶ 1:05:09 Guy Raz That year, Chimboree announces it's going to go public. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:52 Joan Barnes And then people came up to me and said, oh, you're the Gymboree lady. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:03 Joan Barnes Well, Jim Marie now had a new chapter, and first of all, YogaWorks, I consulted to them for about a year and a half after they bought me, and then I decided that I, while I had lost my privilege to be an entrepreneur, it didn't mean that I… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:01 Guy Raz That's Joan Barnes, founder of Gymboree. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
- ▶ 1:00:21 Barb Heilman I mean, I wanted to take her to Gymboree, and I wanted to take her to the park, but then I said, but wait, I can't really put her in the car seat.
Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017)
- ▶ 6:54 Susan Tynan Yeah, so deals for, um, you know, things like Gymboree and childcare services and things like that, things that a family might be interested in apple picking.
Framebridge: Susan Tynan
- ▶ 6:38 Susan Tynan Yeah, so deals for, um, you know, things like Gymboree, and childcare services, and things like that.