The Home Depot, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where The Home Depot comes up
Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
- ▶ 10:41 Roy Seiders It had just this table connected, and I would, I'd buy the saw horse at, at Home Depot, a foldable metal saw horse, and I'd make this little custom top for, um, sighting in your rifle, and I sold some to friends and family, and I sold some…
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 4:01 Aman Narang So, um, back in the day, like, you know, 25 years ago, if you went and searched, you know, Home Depot, or Nike, or Disney Store, or J.Crew, or pick your brand, and you wanted to say, like, show me all of the washers and dryers, and this…
STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
- ▶ 35:38 Shazi Visram Um, I don't think you start this one on a bootstrappy, small way, um, because ultimately you want, like, Home Depot, and you want
Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
- ▶ 30:38 Antonio Swad Went into a Home Depot to buy some of this stuff, and a guy waited on me, and we had our tape measures on our way, so he thought we were like the contractors. 2 times in the scene
Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- ▶ 58:00 Aaron Krause So after I contacted everyone from Walmart to Target to Lowe's and Home Depot and Kroger and couldn't get past the receptionist,
Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- ▶ 29:06 Breezy Griffith So we went to Home Depot, we bought a paint sprayer, 2 times in the scene
Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
- ▶ 30:53 Meredith Baer And, you know, I needed to now buy a van, and I started driving the van myself, and by the way, I would go to Home Depot and pick up some workers, and, uh, I had to buy all kinds of supplies and things.
- ▶ 41:33 Guy Raz I can't just go to Home Depot and get some day laborers, you know, every week.
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
- ▶ 1:10:04 Leigh Keith I brushed my teeth in the Home Depot bathroom and washed my little sister's hair in the public bathroom.
Noosa Yoghurt: Koel Thomae
- ▶ 29:44 Koel Thomae Like, I mean, I remember doing runs to the Home Depot because we were running out of buckets.
Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Black Diamond Equipment: Peter Metcalf
- ▶ 16:46 Peter Metcalf In this era, you can probably remember that at some point in time, you go into a hardware store, or now Home Depot, and every stepladder began to have a sticker on the top step saying, do not step here.
Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
- ▶ 10:30 James Hirschfeld It was like a beach-themed party, um, and I kind of, I filled this, this, this place with palm trees that I, that I bought and then returned to Home Depot.
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
- ▶ 5:28 Kate Pitner I have been a commercial graphic designer for over 20 years, and I partnered with companies like Hallmark, um, Flagology, Joanne Fabrics, Home Depot, um, but ever since I was a little girl, I always wanted to have my own greeting card…
Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 44:53 Jamie Siminoff Arthur Blank from Home Depot. 2 times in the scene
Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan
Therabody: Jason Wersland
- ▶ 9:33 Jason Wersland You gotta be, you have, you can't run to Home Depot.
- ▶ 30:45 Jason Wersland And it's three in the morning, so Home Depot is not open.
- ▶ 40:05 Jason Wersland So I go to Home Depot, and the cheapest one I could find was like, 39 dollars, and I'm like, man, and it was a Kawasaki. 4 times in the scene
Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann
CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman
- ▶ 16:48 Ted Xenohristos I head over to Home Depot.
A biometric smart gun with Kai Kloepfer of Biofire
- ▶ 16:36 Kai Kloepfer It's more in the category of going to Home Depot and buying a power drill.
Making garbage useful with Tom Szaky of TerraCycle
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix
- ▶ 33:45 Lena Phoenix Made by Vibram, and bought some cord from Home Depot, bright neon colors, and he could, because this material was only sold to shoe repair shops, he had to buy a fairly sizable quantity of it.
Bluemercury: Marla and Barry Beck
- ▶ 49:54 Marla Beck So traditionally, you know, when you scale businesses like a Home Depot or a
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- ▶ 1:13:12 Alejandro Velez Gardeners, they're going to the Home Depot. 5 times in the scene
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
- ▶ 32:24 Jack Conte And so I ended up just spending, like, you know, a hundred bucks a day at Home Depot, you know, building the set, and building rotating elevators, and...
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018)
- ▶ 21:50 Stacy Brown We could not hire a contractor to come build this thing, so we were going to Home Depot, and we were buying flooring, we were laying the flooring, we were buying paint, we were painting the walls, we were hanging drywall, and thankfully I…
Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
- ▶ 35:11 Curt Richardson When we did the first, Home Depot came to us and said, hey, we need a case to protect our, our Blackberries. 4 times in the scene
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018)
Zappos: Tony Hsieh (2017)
- ▶ 27:53 Mike Bolos Headed to Home Depot and Amazon and started to buy the parts I need to build it.
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
- ▶ 48:24 Crystal Gordon I, I read a book on, ah, basically inventing things, and bought some stuff from Home Depot.
TRX: Randy Hetrick (2018)
- ▶ 19:24 Randy Hetrick And found somebody who would do the subcomponents more cheaply, and hadn't mentioned this, and we didn't have time to send this stuff back, and so we ended up having to manually strip these things apart, set up basically an assembly line,…
Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown
- ▶ 21:54 Stacy Brown We could not hire a contractor to come build this thing, so we were going to Home Depot, and we were buying flooring, we were laying the flooring, we were buying paint, we were painting the walls, we were hanging drywall, and thankfully I…
Bob's Red Mill: Bob Moore
- ▶ 40:27 Mike Bolos So, started looking online, couldn't find anything, and, uh, that's when, kind of like I always like to do, I headed to Home Depot and Amazon and started to buy the parts I need to build it.
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore
Live Episode! The Home Depot: Arthur Blank
- ▶ 0:04 Guy Raz You open the doors to Home Depot, and is there just a mad rush of people to come in?
- ▶ 1:04 Guy Raz He got revenge by building a business plan for a new company, the Home Depot. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Arthur Blank Uh, I had met my partner at HD, Bernie Marcus, uh, through, through Dalen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:24 Arthur Blank I said, but it's gotta be, we gotta be able to present this to very sophisticated investors, and have it make some sense, and be plausible, but reality is that the investors who invested in our company, it was a 144 of them, um, really… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Guy Raz On that opening day in 1979, you had, you'd raise the money to open two shops, you're in Atlanta, you open the doors to Home Depot, and is there just a mad rush of people to come in?
- ▶ 18:19 Guy Raz In just a minute, how the Home Depot went from a flop on opening day to the largest home improvement chain in the world.
- ▶ 20:21 Guy Raz Arthur, I want to ask you about how you and Bernie thought of the company, and you have to, of course, agree on what it's going to be, what the values of the company are. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:52 Guy Raz You went, Home Depot went from zero revenue in 1979 to seven hundred million in 1985, the fastest company in U.S. history to hit 40 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:45 Arthur Blank She couldn't get away, and she did a video piece, and she sent it, and I still remember, you know, what she said there, and she says, Dad, you know, I never realized when I was growing up, you know, the size of the Home Depot, and the…
- ▶ 25:03 Guy Raz You stepped down, stepped away from the company, left the company at a pretty young age. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:30 Arthur Blank I don't know how many Outward Bound courses myself, but, um, we did a lot of that in terms of the, the training at HD, but a lot of it is based on their philosophies to serve, to strive, and not to yield.
- ▶ 31:01 Guy Raz Arthur Blank, founder of Home Depot, owner of the Atlanta Falcons. 3 times in the scene
Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard (2016)
Framebridge: Susan Tynan
Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher
Kickstarter: Perry Chen
- ▶ 37:42 Crystal Gordon I read a book on, uh, basically inventing things and bought some stuff from Home Depot.
TRX: Randy Hetrick
- ▶ 19:37 Randy Hetrick And found somebody who would do the subcomponents more cheaply, and hadn't mentioned this, and we didn't have time to send this stuff back, and so we ended up having to manually strip these things apart, set up an, uh, basically an…
Celebrity Chef: José Andrés
- ▶ 26:18 Dennis Darnell And just last week, we reached out to Ace Hardware headquarters, as well as Home Depot.