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STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
- ▶ 53:28 Stephen Starr It was like the West Coast when the New Yorkers all moved in and took over Hollywood, and there was nothing here.
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
- ▶ 1:09:01 Brian Smith Um, I, I found a mailing list of stylists in Hollywood and sent a letter to them, and about 400 people responded, and so I sent them all a pair of Ugg boots, you know, no questions asked, and, uh, it was a couple of months before I started…
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
- ▶ 45:02 Jensen Huang The science fiction and the Hollywood versions of artificial intelligence
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
- ▶ 10:19 Danae Ringelman I mean, I'd always gone to movies as a kid, but I never actually thought about the business behind it, and somehow discovered or got invited to this event called Where Hollywood Meets Wall Street. 2 times in the scene
Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
- ▶ 2:31 Guy Raz She was 50 years old, frustrated with her career as a screenwriter in Hollywood and pouring her energy into a house she was renting.
- ▶ 18:29 Meredith Baer It was a lot of money, and initially, Adrian Lyne was going to direct it, and we had people like Richard Gere who wanted to play the inmate, and Diane Lane was going to play the, the girl, and then, you know, what happens in Hollywood is… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 Meredith Baer You know, Hollywood changes so rapidly, the people, the positions, and, uh,
- ▶ 29:14 Guy Raz I mean, because in Hollywood, and it's in any industry, and I come from the world of journalism, right, where I remember when I left journalism, you know, people were like, what?
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- ▶ 39:01 Craig Newmark I, uh, suddenly when I watch TV about Hollywood, I keep hearing about producers giving directors what they call notes, which are usually a bad idea.
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
- ▶ 1:04:29 Michael Acton Smith No, we'd actually been trying to get celebrities to narrate sleep stories for quite a while before that, and we were knocking on the door of Hollywood and trying to reach out to every connection we could, but no one wanted to do it.
Hexclad: Danny Winer
Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
Advice Line with Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield
- ▶ 18:26 Gary Hirshberg The reason I slipped into my chatter a few minutes ago, this Environmental Media Association, this is all the, the environmental stars in Hollywood, stars who lend their time and efforts to really green stuff.
Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan
- ▶ 25:59 Arman Oganesyan Um, ok so, Tommy's parents had a little flower shop in Hollywood, in like, this little plaza.
- ▶ 46:49 Guy Raz So, alright, so you guys have this first store in Hollywood in 2018.
Therabody: Jason Wersland
- ▶ 24:52 Jason Wersland At the time, I lived in Venice, my school was in Hollywood, and the practice was in Beverly Hills, so if anyone knows LA.
Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann
- ▶ 3:48 Guy Raz And all of this was started by a guy with no connections in Hollywood, no significant money, and no experience making films.
- ▶ 37:12 Dhar Mann I thought about my adventures in Hollywood.
- ▶ 44:45 Dhar Mann So I moved from that small apartment in Hollywood to downtown LA.
- ▶ 1:18:54 Guy Raz I mean, it sounds like you guys are becoming much more of a traditional Hollywood style studio where you're like doing all kinds of stories, maybe even feature length films. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:13 Guy Raz You've had some actors in the past, you know about this, who've complained, have criticized, saying they're underpaid, you know, and Hollywood is a union town, but you're not, for a variety of reasons, you're not working with union actors. 2 times in the scene
YouTube Creator and Cookbook Author: Rosanna Pansino
Mythical: Rhett and Link
- ▶ 29:15 Link Neal We had been painted this vivid picture of what our future in Hollywood was going to be like by the other producer of Online Nation.
- ▶ 32:44 Rhett McLaughlin So right around that same time, like 2007, like in that era where we're trying to make something happen in Hollywood. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:28 Guy Raz So it's around 2007, and after trying to make a go of it in Hollywood, Rhett and Link are back to working for themselves, marketing funny songs and videos, and soon hosting another talk show.
- ▶ 49:44 Rhett McLaughlin oh man, I think people might say no, but we started saying that and started getting yeses, so thanks to Corey for, for encouraging that, but we would always find a way to work the weirdest sponsors into our videos and still make this…
- ▶ 50:56 Guy Raz Ok, so IFC contacts you, so now you're back in the Hollywood network TV world, right?
- ▶ 55:00 Guy Raz So, all right, so IFC does not renew the show, and there you guys are living in Southern California trying to break into Hollywood, right?
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021)
- ▶ 10:39 Fawn Weaver It's, uh, a homeless shelter for adults in Hollywood, and it was probably one of the most important moments of my life because I'd always been independent, uh,
Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz
- ▶ 17:03 Gabi Lewis 50 years ago, eating raw fish was a little bit strange to most Americans, and the way it became popularized was that a chef in LA created the California roll, and sort of hid that raw fish inside the rice and seaweed, reimagined it for a…
Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
- ▶ 31:14 Nuseir Yassin In the future, there is a room for a 195 more Hollywoods to be created.
Aviator Nation: Paige Mycoskie
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
- ▶ 43:06 Hernán López And, and people who were in our world sometimes were, ah, really working for Hollywood projects that, that essentially allowed them to pay the bills, and they were doing audio as a passion project on the side. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:40 Hernán López It was turning to a very successful television show for Bravo, and it's, um, it really put us in a position where, because we were in Hollywood, we could give creators the potential of having their show 2 times in the scene
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
Chef and Restaurateur: Thomas Keller
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League
- ▶ 39:26 Tim League We were kind of a second-run movie theater showing Hollywood movies.
Suitsupply: Fokke de Jong
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
- ▶ 25:15 Nuseir Yassin So, so, so we're, I, if I was born and raised in Los Angeles, I could very easily have built this about me and made an Assyria scene brand do a Hollywood route.
- ▶ 37:57 Nuseir Yassin In the future, there is a room for a 195 more Hollywoods to be created.
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 1:05:04 Bill Simmons And really from November on, we rented this house in this kind of crappy part of, uh, Hollywood.
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout (2020)
- ▶ 15:14 Daina Trout We even went and sold a party to a record studio in Hollywood.
Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva
- ▶ 0:55 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a Hollywood makeup artist figured out a better way to apply makeup with a teardrop-shaped sponge and grew that idea into Beauty Blender, a multi-million dollar cosmetics brand.
- ▶ 2:11 Guy Raz In the early 2000, Rian was working in Hollywood as head of makeup on the sitcom Girlfriends, and she was trying to come up with a way to apply makeup so that it wouldn't show up in high definition.
HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo
- ▶ 9:28 Beatriz Acevedo So at that time, it was a combination of that, the opportunity that all these multi-channel networks were exploding, and also that I could see every day in my work as a producer how things were never going to change in Hollywood, even if… 3 times in the scene
HOORAE: Issa Rae
- ▶ 0:45 Issa Rae I think that's also the embarrassing part of working in Hollywood, is you get these announcements of things that are happening, and the support, and then they just disappear, and while there's not an announcement that it's not going, you…
- ▶ 1:50 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Issa Rae refused to wait for permission to make TV and made her own, and how she turned her YouTube content into a brand, two hit TV shows, and eventually, a Hollywood production company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:32 Issa Rae LA is where Hollywood is, and where TV is.
- ▶ 51:06 Guy Raz How Issa eventually creates a hit series for HBO, but first discovers just how much it can suck to try to launch a show in Hollywood. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:05 Issa Rae I know, but I'm a woman in Hollywood.
The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
- ▶ 12:57 Jimmy Fallon So he was leaving Albany to go to where Hollywood is, I mean, where the business was.
- ▶ 25:30 Jimmy Fallon L.A., I went back out to L.A., and they said they're thinking about it, and then they called my manager and said, Lauren's in L.A. next week, and so he wants to meet with Jimmy and his office at Paramount Studios, and, you know, I, at that…
- ▶ 28:57 Jimmy Fallon Uh, it was, uh, the Hollywood squares, except there was an earthquake in Hollywood, and the, it all crumbled, the squares all, it was a disaster.
- ▶ 38:48 Jimmy Fallon Everyone kind of got cold feet, and it was like, oof, and you kind of get like a, like a stink around you in Hollywood, like, oh, he's not the guy we thought he was going to be.
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
- ▶ 25:36 Lloyd Armbrust I was kind of shielded from it, to be honest, because we, you know, we're so great at things like Hollywood
HIBT Lab! Colin and Samir: Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry
- ▶ 2:57 Samir Chaudry So, you know, I was a film major, and I wanted to use my film degree in one way, uh, or the other, and I tried my hand at Hollywood and, and didn't really like the experience of working in Hollywood, so decided to 2 times in the scene
Florentine Films: Ken Burns
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 13:50 Brian Armstrong Like that's, if I want to be an actor, I should go to Hollywood.
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver
- ▶ 10:26 Fawn Weaver It's, uh, a homeless shelter for adults in Hollywood, and it was probably one of the most important moments of my life because, uh,
Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation
ARRAY: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay
- ▶ 2:01 Guy Raz She's not only one of the most entrepreneurial creators in Hollywood, but increasingly,
- ▶ 24:18 Ava DuVernay Run campaigns for every major studio in Hollywood.
- ▶ 31:47 Guy Raz So by 2005, Ava DuVernay is running her own successful business as a publicist in Hollywood.
- ▶ 1:03:22 Guy Raz I read an interview you gave, um, and you talked about after you won Best Director of Sundance, this was your quote, you said, there was no golden ticket that unlocked the riches of Hollywood for me.
How I Built Resilience: M. Night Shyamalan
- ▶ 18:58 Guy Raz There's, I mean, of course, there are people who probably do those different things and operational things, but at normal times, you must be pulled and tugged in different directions from the business people outside of the company in the…
- ▶ 26:45 Guy Raz The pandemic has completely upended Hollywood over the past year, but despite all the uncertainty, Knight has taken this year in stride, working on a new film called Old and a new season of his Apple Plus TV show Servant, both filmed…
ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd (2018)
McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John
- ▶ 1:04:52 Robin McBride You know, he came from a very, very small, and I say small, like, 500 people or something, country town in Alabama, um, you know, moved himself to Hollywood, um, and became a part of that scene and an actor and, you know, and everything… 2 times in the scene
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout
- ▶ 15:29 Daina Trout We even went and sold a party to a record studio in Hollywood, and it was, uh, I, it was Halloween, and I don't remember, um, which is really sad.
Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
- ▶ 51:50 Michael Kirban So, um, around the same time that Coke invested in Zico, a friend of a friend introduced me to Guy Osiri, who is Madonna's manager, uh, today's U-II's manager, um, he's quite connected in, in Hollywood, and I had coffee with Guy.
How I Built Resilience: Sarah Harden and Lauren Neustadter of Hello Sunshine
- ▶ 0:30 Guy Raz It was founded four years ago by actor Reese Witherspoon, and it's already a big name in Hollywood.
- ▶ 1:39 Guy Raz Everything's on pause in, in Hollywood right now.
- ▶ 6:50 Guy Raz I mean, it's like, it's like time is frozen in Hollywood right now, in a sense, right?
- ▶ 8:44 Guy Raz How would you assess where Hollywood is right now with respect to that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:50 Lauren Neustadter And then the Hollywood term is packaging, right?
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency
- ▶ 0:18 Guy Raz It's one of the biggest agencies in Hollywood, representing thousands of producers, actors, musicians, and so many others.
- ▶ 2:52 Guy Raz Like what's going on in Hollywood?
- ▶ 10:36 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Jeremy takes questions from our audience about how to make live music work better during a lockdown, and the need for more diversity in Hollywood.
- ▶ 11:01 Guy Raz UTA represents some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and a lot of people watching my conversation with Jeremy wanted to know about the inner workings of the company. 2 times in the scene
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
How I Built Resilience: Live with Kevin Hart
- ▶ 5:03 Guy Raz A lot of people, um, who only know you as an actor and comedian don't know that you've got a production company, I mean, you're an entrepreneur, you had a really kind of, um, I mean, you really kind of, it took you like 10 years to break…
- ▶ 10:29 Guy Raz He also runs a production company called Heartbeat Productions, making him one of the busiest people in Hollywood.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
- ▶ 9:49 Guy Raz I mean, it sounds like the trajectory of your career was you were gonna end up working in Hollywood, working on TV development projects, and eventually become an executive maybe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Julia Hartz We had a moment where we imagined I would still work in Hollywood, he would still be working on Zoom, but doing it somewhat remotely.
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)
ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd
Power Rangers: Haim Saban (2017)
Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018)
- ▶ 38:36 Troy Carter And the music industry and, and just Hollywood in general were in litigation with most of the, you know, the technology companies, so it was this sort of, this wall between technology and content, and we embraced it, and so I started…
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
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