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YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
- ▶ 5:42 Ryan Seiders And he started that company in Houston.
- ▶ 43:52 Roy Seiders But there was a pretty unique dynamic going on where when I walked into McBride's in Austin or Barings Hardware in Houston or the Tacklebox in San Antonio, which are small little sporting goods stores or hardware stores, none of those guys…
Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor
- ▶ 18:38 Shereen Tippett I'm calling from Houston, Texas, where it is a thousand degrees, and I have a business called Honey Bespoke Stationery and Paper Goods.
Justin’s Nut Butter: Justin Gold. He Was Waiting Tables, Then...He Reinvented Peanut Butter.
- ▶ 1:01:40 Justin Gold So when I would walk back into a Houston, Texas, Whole Foods, I hadn't been in a year, I would have the names of all the people I'd met a year ago, and I'd memorize the names before I walked in the store, and I'd write a description of…
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
- ▶ 55:45 Antonio Swad I mean, what I had was like my Boy Scout pocket knife, and these guys, they rolled in with big law firm out of Houston and all this stuff, and I didn't realize it at the time, but my lawyer was pretty overwhelmed.
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 24:29 Michael Dubin And, I mean, you know, this was real street hustle at the time, and like, you know, you buy, you buy, you do your own SEM in your house, and I still remember our first customer, it was Imran Charnania of Houston, Texas.
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- ▶ 11:01 Chip Gaines Pick up steam a little bit so I could stay the course, or I could move to Houston and work for Xerox in this somewhat prestigious sales job, you know, and again, you're selling copiers, so I don't want to overstate it, but for sales people…
- ▶ 1:11:40 Chip Gaines Come from Tennessee, come from Dallas or Houston or Austin, great cities in their own right, and come to Waco, Texas and be like, wow, this isn't at all what I expected.
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
Advice Line with Brett Schulman of CAVA
- ▶ 4:00 Devin Strahan I'm calling from the great state of Houston, Texas. 3 times in the scene
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
- ▶ 3:04 Guy Raz Anyway, Tiffany grew up in Texas, in Houston, to be exact.
- ▶ 10:30 Tiffany Masterson His mom is a jewelry designer here in Houston.
- ▶ 16:02 Guy Raz By the way, what's the best taco in Houston? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:19 Guy Raz But was the idea to just sell it to friends in Houston, or was it to, like, turn this into a national product? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:45 Guy Raz Okay, so you are in Houston trying to experiment with a bunch of different things, and you keep mentioning essential oils, and I'm like, God, I thought essential oils were good, like, or, or is all of it a problem or suspicious?
- ▶ 44:59 Tiffany Masterson Yes, I, I hired a, um, so in 2013 when I launched the line on my own website in Houston, actually August 15th, 2013.
- ▶ 1:00:32 Guy Raz But I read that a lot of people around you, especially even in Houston, in your hometown, didn't take it seriously. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:09 Tiffany Masterson I was doing it on my own, and, um, it started just gaining followers, and I, I do think that, I mean, the, the CEO of Sephora came to Houston a year in and just said, what are you doing?
- ▶ 1:19:15 Tiffany Masterson It wasn't a month before the people from Estee Lauder came out to visit me in Houston. 2 times in the scene
Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines
- ▶ 4:58 Steve Altemus And what we did was we stepped outside the gate of Johnson space center, which is here in Houston.
- ▶ 17:54 Steve Altemus So what we do is, um, right here in Houston, um, we have been building the Nova C Lunar Lander, which is about 2000 kilograms, uh, stands about 14 feet high, uh, maybe six or seven feet diameter.
- ▶ 22:49 Guy Raz But I, I imagine, you mentioned, you know, you're operating out of Houston, obviously important oil and gas center of the United States of the world, really.
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
- ▶ 43:52 Spencer Jan We got introduced to some good guys in Houston who wanted to have a stab at e-commerce.
When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
- ▶ 33:26 Chris Urmson Which is what you call kind of a trucking route, and that'll be between Dallas and Houston, and then we'll expand likely to Fort Worth to El Paso, uh, and then we'll kind of grow the network out from there.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League
HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
- ▶ 0:57 Guy Raz Have been on the roads in Silicon Valley and in Houston, making deliveries with big name partners like Domino's and Kroger grocery stores.
- ▶ 26:39 Dave Ferguson I mean, we have regular operation, fully driverless custom vehicles in both the Bay Area and in Houston, and we're constantly expanding the regions over which we're operating.
Roku: Anthony Wood
- ▶ 3:54 Guy Raz In Houston, his dad was an aircraft engineer, and by middle school, Anthony discovered computers, and was soon writing his own software, and eventually trying to sell it.
- ▶ 5:52 Anthony Wood And then there was a computer store in Houston called micro search.
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
- ▶ 4:57 Guy Raz And what started out as a single shop in Houston would eventually turn into a multi-billion dollar clothing empire with hundreds of stores across the U.S.
- ▶ 14:58 George Zimmer I traveled the, uh, territory, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and the largest account in my territory was in Houston, which is where I ultimately started Men's Warehouse. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:03 Guy Raz And why did you think that Houston was the place to go? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:50 Guy Raz So you decide you are going to open up a store that sells discount suits in Houston in 1973. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:58 George Zimmer We weren't, uh, we lost money in, uh, each of the first two years, and then we opened a second and a third store in Houston.
- ▶ 25:32 Guy Raz When did you first expand outside of Houston? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:09 Guy Raz So by the late eighties, you are still in Houston and the South Bay? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:56 Guy Raz In Houston in 1973, what do you remember about hearing that news?
HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
- ▶ 5:24 Carlos Araque Originally a French company, but by the time I joined, they were truly an international company, and Schlumberger hired me in one of the Houston facilities to be an engineer, to design tools that would go downhole into an oil well and do… 3 times in the scene
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
- ▶ 1:07:55 Todd Graves Dallas and Houston, and this is eight, eight, nine years into it, and we got our butt kicked. 2 times in the scene
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 2:11 Guy Raz At the time, he moved from Houston to San Francisco, determined to join the tech scene.
- ▶ 3:37 Guy Raz Anyway, Matt grew up in Houston, along with his sister.
- ▶ 7:30 Matt Mullenweg So one of the best saxophone players still in Houston, and one of my teachers was this guy named David Caceres.
- ▶ 16:44 Matt Mullenweg I was part of a blogger community in Houston at the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 Matt Mullenweg And, you know, in Houston, I had a community.
- ▶ 58:36 Guy Raz You left San Francisco, moved back to Houston in 2011 because you could.
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
- ▶ 6:02 Guy Raz Like your, your dad was a, was a pastor kind of in and around the Houston area?
- ▶ 33:01 Tyler Toney It was a feed tower, but to a city boy from Houston, it looks like a water tower.
- ▶ 1:07:24 Tyler Toney I don't remember if it was the Houston Final Four or the Atlanta Final Four, but they, they had flown out ahead of time because they needed to be there Friday.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Brené Brown
Casper: Philip Krim
- ▶ 16:19 Philip Krim So, um, at the time, if, if you searched like Houston tow truck driver, um, you, you could click directly from that search using a Google ad and be connected to a local tow truck company.
How I Built Resilience: Kara Goldin of Hint
- ▶ 9:46 Kara Goldin And so the next morning I stopped at a few other Target stores and I'm like, Houston, we have a problem.
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 9:24 Jamie Siminoff So I found there was a girl at school and her dad had a, uh, electronic store in Houston, Texas.
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
- ▶ 2:45 Guy Raz Michael grew up in Houston in the 19 seventies, and this was just as digital technology was taking off in that city with companies like Texas Instruments and then later Compaq. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:57 Michael Dell Surrounding Harris County, which is where Houston, Texas is. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 Michael Dell And I remember in 1981, I was 16 years old, I'd just gotten my driver's license, and they had this thing called the National Computer Conference in the Astrodome in Houston. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Michael Dell Because, you know, my father was a doctor, my older brother was a doctor, and I always thought I'd be a doctor, and, and, uh, when I started going to school, you know, my parents weren't around all the time, right, because I'm, I'm in…
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer
- ▶ 3:30 Guy Raz And what started out as a single shop in Houston would eventually turn into a multi-billion dollar clothing empire with hundreds of stores across the U.S.
- ▶ 13:34 George Zimmer I traveled the, uh, territory, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and the largest account in my territory was in Houston, which is where I ultimately started Men's Warehouse. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:27 Guy Raz Okay, so you decide you are going to open up a store that sells discount suits in Houston in 1973. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:09 Guy Raz When did you first expand outside of Houston? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:44 Guy Raz So by the late eighties, you are still in Houston and the South Bay? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:28 Guy Raz This is the company that you founded in Houston in 1973.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
- ▶ 3:38 Rod Canion We went back to Houston and talked about, we're going to miss this if we don't get going.
- ▶ 9:28 Rod Canion The deadline was determined by the National Computer Conference, which just happened to be held in Houston that year, the only time I think it was ever in Houston. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:04 Rod Canion and I got back to Houston and compared notes.
- ▶ 18:35 Rod Canion When that filled up, we borrowed space in friends' parking lots around the town, and by mid-February, we had about 20 of these trailers full of computers sitting around Houston.
- ▶ 33:59 Guy Raz Rod still lives in Houston where he mainly invests in other people's startups.
Remembering Herb Kelleher
- ▶ 3:54 Herb Kelleher And so, uh, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio were the obvious first targets, because they were the three largest cities in Texas.
- ▶ 6:16 Guy Raz That were doing these Texas flights, like, for, like, between Houston and Dallas and these other places?
- ▶ 11:19 Herb Kelleher But the one that received all the publicity went from Dallas to Houston.
- ▶ 12:39 Herb Kelleher Well, it was Dallas-Houston, Houston-San Antonio, and San Antonio-Dallas.
- ▶ 16:53 Herb Kelleher And, ah, my sister-in-law, a delightful lady, called me at my law office, and, and she said, Herb, ah, she said, I just flew from Houston to San Antonio on Southwest Airlines, and I've traveled most of the world's airlines, which was true.
Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018)
- ▶ 36:51 Dustin Hogren It's Southeast Houston, Texas.
Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin
- ▶ 24:55 Michael Dubin It was Imran Charnania of Houston, Texas.
Whole Foods Market: John Mackey (2018)
- ▶ 13:56 John Mackey So we, we rented that burned out location, and the story there is also kind of interesting, because the owner of that building was this guy named Ben Powell, and had been in his family, he lives, he's an attorney living in Houston at that…
- ▶ 27:10 John Mackey We did go to Silicon Valley, and we got two based out of Houston. 2 times in the scene
Dell Computers: Michael Dell
- ▶ 2:27 Guy Raz Michael grew up in Houston in the 19 seventies, and this was just as digital technology was taking off in that city with companies like Texas Instruments and then later Compaq.
- ▶ 6:41 Michael Dell Which is where Houston, Texas is, and I hired a bunch of my high school pals, you know, to go out to all these county courthouses and type the names into small Apple II computers, and I sent, you know, a massive direct mail campaign to all… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:11 Michael Dell I'd just gotten my driver's license, and they had this thing called the National Computer Conference in the Astrodome in Houston. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:42 Michael Dell Because, you know, my father was a doctor, my older brother was a doctor, you know, a lot of my cousins were doctors, and I always thought I'd be a doctor, and, and, uh, when I started going to school, you know, my parents weren't around…
Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher (2016)
- ▶ 3:38 Herb Kelleher And so, uh, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio were the obvious first targets, because they were the three largest cities in Texas.
- ▶ 6:00 Guy Raz That were doing these Texas flights, like, for, like, between Houston and Dallas and these other places?
- ▶ 10:59 Herb Kelleher The first flight went from Dallas to San Antonio, but the one that received all the publicity went from Dallas to Houston, and we were the underdog.
- ▶ 12:23 Herb Kelleher Well, it was Dallas-Houston, Houston-San Antonio, and San Antonio-Dallas.
- ▶ 16:37 Herb Kelleher And, ah, my sister-in-law, a delightful lady, called me at my law office, and, and she said, Herb, ah, she said, I just flew from Houston to San Antonio on Southwest Airlines, and I've traveled most of the world's airlines, which was true.
Rent The Runway: Jenn Hyman
- ▶ 49:59 Dustin Hogren It's Southeast Houston, Texas.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 3:15 Rod Canion We went back to Houston and talked about, we're going to miss this if we don't get going, so Jim Harris and I turned in our resignation, uh, right away.
- ▶ 9:05 Rod Canion The deadline was determined by the National Computer Conference, which just happened to be held in Houston that year, the only time I think it was ever in Houston. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:41 Rod Canion Bill and I got back to Houston and compared notes.
- ▶ 18:12 Rod Canion When that filled up, we borrowed space in friends' parking lots around the town, and by mid-February, we had about 20 of these trailers full of computers sitting around Houston.
- ▶ 33:36 Guy Raz Rod still lives in Houston, where he mainly invests in other people's startups.
Whole Foods Market: John Mackey
- ▶ 14:11 John Mackey So we, we rented that burned out location, and the story there is also kind of interesting, because the owner of that building was this guy named Ben Powell, and had been in his family, he lives, he's an attorney living in Houston at that…
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