Hawaii, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 51Stacy Madison 8David Neeleman 8Tom Hale 3Steve Case 3Mike Radenbaugh 3Elan Lee 3Allison Repp 3Travis Rosbach 2Olivier Bernhard 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Hawaii comes up
Late July Snacks: Nicole Bernard Dawes. Crackers and Cookies were Failing… Tortilla Chips Saved Them
- ▶ 3:43 Nicole Bernard Dawes And there was an article about this, like, old-fashioned way that this place in Hawaii that was making potato chips, and tourists were coming in and buying them.
Advice Line with Ronnen Harary of Spin Master/PAW Patrol
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
- ▶ 2:49 Guy Raz Kettle Chips was based in Oregon, but the inspiration came from a trip Cameron took to Hawaii. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:49 Guy Raz All right, so you're, you are, you've got this nuts, mainly nuts business, uh, and I'm not sure this is, this is really the story, or if it's apocryphal, or maybe it is the story, I don't know, but, but from what I've read, around 1982, so… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:28 Guy Raz So it's early 1982, and Cameron has just met with the owner of the Maui Potato Chip Company in Hawaii. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:51 Guy Raz Um, you take another family vacation to Hawaii. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:40 Cameron Healy Outstanding foundation in Hawaii, which was nice to have that recognition.
Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
- ▶ 46:55 John Osher So I got to, finally got to Hawaii and said, well, I might as well call them because I got nothing to lose at this time.
Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
- ▶ 1:04:10 Bob Taylor Maybe a hundred, and then also in, in Hawaii, but we can use that wood in 30 years from now.
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 50:51 Floyd Albee One of our first, like, real clients came in and somehow gave us a giant project to do in Hawaii.
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
- ▶ 27:14 Elan Lee An invitation from a friend of mine, uh, Matt Harding, who said, uh, come to Hawaii with me. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:30 Guy Raz And you were playing this in Hawaii.
- ▶ 33:39 Guy Raz Okay, let's, before we get there, so you, it's a card game, you have the concept down, which is basically Russian roulette, but what happens then when you get back after this Hawaii trip?
Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- ▶ 7:49 Travis Rosbach And I said, either Mexico or Hawaii, but I need to go somewhere warm
- ▶ 8:42 Guy Raz Yeah, I mean, I understand that impulse of landing in Hawaii and just thinking, I'm not ever leaving that place, uh, because I have been there, and it's absolutely incredible, and I felt that before, by the way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:43 Guy Raz Why not stay in Hawaii?
- ▶ 48:20 Travis Rosbach When it got too hard with the rest of bottles, she took off back to Hawaii and
Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel
Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire.
- ▶ 5:53 Carlton Calvin This started in Hawaii, and they would put this, these are the caps that would go on a bottle, and to keep it sanitary.
Advice Line: Playing to Your Strengths
Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
Advice Line with Jeni Britton of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
- ▶ 32:14 Callie Seher We have, we're in 10 local stores around LA and two in Hawaii.
Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
- ▶ 1:52 Guy Raz Steve, you grew up in Hawaii, and then you, you went to college on the East Coast, and then went into marketing for a while and consulting, and you ended up working on a product that let you download, like, Atari games through a telephone…
- ▶ 18:19 Steve Case Well, I can relate to this, having grown up in Hawaii and gone into college in Massachusetts, so I'm, I'm a target customer, and actually, I remember starting a couple businesses in college that were kind of tied in with this, uh, and I… 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball
- ▶ 31:23 Nigel Lewis Southern or Northern California or Hawaii, uh, you would find here.
Advice Line with Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
Advice Line with Lara Merriken of LÄRABAR
- ▶ 7:07 Allison Repp Uh, we're in a couple stores in Hawaii. 3 times in the scene
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 14:15 Rod Cuthbert So the idea of moving their brochure production onto the web where they had complete instantaneous control if they wanted to change price, if, for example, one of the hotels that they were using in Hawaii backed out or
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
Banana Republic: Mel and Patricia Ziegler
- ▶ 9:32 Mel Ziegler And then when we, we decided at one point to both take a week off at the same time, and we went to Hawaii, and we both came back with tans.
On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti
- ▶ 59:09 Olivier Bernhard It was, uh, Frederick van Lierde, a Belgium triathlete, winning the world championship in Kona in Hawaii. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Tony Lamb of Kona Ice
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
- ▶ 11:57 Mark Sisson And as I was riding more and more miles, I met a guy, a friend I'd known from across town, who said, hey man, I'm training for this thing over in Hawaii.
Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
- ▶ 3:14 Guy Raz Hawaii, of course, is the home of Hawaiian shaved ice.
- ▶ 17:28 Tony Lamb I was very young, and I was winning all the contests, and I was, they fly you to Hawaii, they go on all these trips, and
- ▶ 32:51 Guy Raz First of all, for people who've had shaved ice, either in Hawaii or wherever, like, these are specialized machines. 2 times in the scene
Vuori: Joe Kudla
The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
- ▶ 3:29 Guy Raz First to New York, and eventually to Hawaii. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:04 Henk Rogers Mission number one is to end the use of carbon-based fuel, and I started a, uh, foundation in Hawaii called the Blue Planet Foundation, and we worked to end the use of carbon-based fuel in Hawaii.
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
- ▶ 8:36 Chris Ruder You know, I was kind of that annoying brother, so I wasn't really allowed to play with them, but I'd kind of watch from afar, and I'm like, yeah, that's, that's kind of cool, and didn't really play much until that trip in Hawaii, and you…
- ▶ 12:54 Guy Raz Like, it had been around for, for about 15 years, I think, when you guys played it in Hawaii.
Tory Burch: Tory Burch
- ▶ 1:02:15 Tory Burch Literally, we were in Hawaii.
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
- ▶ 1:01:18 Guy Raz If you're going to, back to Tokyo after your trip to Hawaii, you're like, yeah, this place doesn't mean Cocoa Beach, Florida.
- ▶ 1:07:01 Tom Rinks Track, and so about, it was about year three or four, when I got called from Adam Francis, who was a guy in Australia, who's ex-pro surfer, he went to Harvard, his wife Teagan was a lawyer, and they had done a lot of good businesses, and,…
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
- ▶ 3:20 Guy Raz Brian was able to run the Wirecutter from his home in Hawaii with a team of writers working remotely.
- ▶ 40:10 Guy Raz At this point, you're 34, you're out, you've left Gawker, um, did you leave San Francisco at this point and move to Hawaii, or were you still in San Francisco?
- ▶ 50:04 Brian Lam And that's when I moved to Hawaii 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:43 Guy Raz By the way, Brian no longer boxes, but since moving to Hawaii, he has become an avid surfer with a kind of insane collection of surfboards, like, 50 of them.
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 41:31 Emmett Shear And we said we'd take the whole company to Hawaii if we got to a million dollars in profit, which at the time we were making like 10,000 dollars of profit.
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- ▶ 51:00 Mitchell Gold Well, and what I'll add to it is we had been on vacation, and it was really obvious to both of us that it wasn't working, and, and we came back from Hawaii, and we were in San Francisco at a restaurant, and over the course of dinner, I…
Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison (2019)
- ▶ 7:43 Stacy Madison So he was doing an internship in Hawaii and said, well, why don't you come out to Hawaii? 4 times in the scene
Rad Power Bikes: Mike Radenbaugh
- ▶ 25:36 Mike Radenbaugh They brought it on a vacation with them in Hawaii and they were riding it, like going to the beach or something. 3 times in the scene
Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram
- ▶ 7:10 Kevin Systrom And that is like, so I was just in Hawaii the other day.
- ▶ 18:04 Kevin Systrom Although, yes, I was in Hawaii.
Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison
- ▶ 8:31 Stacy Madison He was super supportive, and eventually our friendship led to dating, and he was getting his PhD, so he was doing an internship in Hawaii. 4 times in the scene
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer
JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
- ▶ 12:07 David Neeleman I was sitting in my accounting class one day, and I was talking to someone who was seated behind me, and her name was Lily Rona, I can still remember, and, ah, she told me about this guy who, who's, this man who was a friend of her… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:48 David Neeleman It was a charter contract to fly a Hawaiian Airlines chartered from Hawaii to Salt Lake directly, you know, bypassing the drive to LA. 3 times in the scene
Minted: Mariam Naficy
Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher
- ▶ 45:02 Charlie Munford In fact, we just got an order from Hawaii. 2 times in the scene