Iran, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 23Isaac Larian 5Maureen Wheeler 4Nima Fotovat 3Shiza Shahid 2Mariam Naficy 2Kat Nouri 2Taha Bawa 1Norma Kamali 1
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MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant.
- ▶ 3:49 Guy Raz They grew up in Iran, where their father owned a canning business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:31 Nima Fotovat They actually banned boys from leaving Iran as soon as they turned 13. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:53 Nima Fotovat I remember our schools in Iran, academically, they were incredibly good.
- ▶ 9:39 Guy Raz I know that he had a canning business back in Iran. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment
MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
- ▶ 3:24 Guy Raz Well, today, we bring you a story that begins in the slums of Tehran, the capital of Iran, in the 19 fifties. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:15 Guy Raz And you had a very big family in Iran.
- ▶ 9:06 Isaac Larian And frankly, also coming out of Iran, this was my first time on a plane, actually, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:29 Isaac Larian I went back to Iran to see what's going on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:02 Guy Raz How does a guy from Iran named Isaac Larian with no connections, how is he able to find the best deals?
Achieving greater things with Adam Grant
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
- ▶ 33:49 Shiza Shahid He was born in Iran, and then grew up in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 39:10 Shiza Shahid My husband, Amir, um, when his family fled Iran, they left everything behind, and when they came here, they rebuilt their lives by starting a kitchenware manufacturing business.
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
- ▶ 4:51 Guy Raz She was actually born in Tehran, in Iran, in the mid-nineteen sixties, before the Islamic Revolution.
- ▶ 5:36 Kat Nouri In fact, when we, when my dad lost his father and his brother, um, my dad just couldn't stand living there anymore and being associated to his business where he sort of saw the shadow of his brother every day, but his brother wasn't there… 2 times in the scene
Norma Kamali: Norma Kamali
- ▶ 25:55 Norma Kamali First of all, he was incredibly handsome and incredibly charming, and he left Iran when he was 11 and was in boarding schools in London, outside of London, until he came here to go to college.
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
How I Built Resilience: Taha Bawa of Goodwall
Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman
Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017)
- ▶ 5:23 Maureen Wheeler You know, there's, you go into, um, you go right to the border with Turkey and Iran, then you go right across Iran, then you go right across Turkey, uh, Afghanistan, and then you just keep going through Pakistan, and then you go through… 2 times in the scene
Minted: Mariam Naficy
- ▶ 3:34 Guy Raz Her dad was an economist from Iran. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:46 Mariam Naficy And, and honestly, I sort of feel like the whole time, even when I was in Iran, I felt like a little bit of a
- ▶ 43:35 Mariam Naficy I mean, think about what would have happened if I had not been able to leave Iran, right?
Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler
- ▶ 7:29 Maureen Wheeler You know, there's, you go into, um, you go right to the border with Turkey and Iran, then you go right across Iran, then you go right across Turkey, uh, Afghanistan, and then you, you just keep going through Pakistan, and then you go… 2 times in the scene