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MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant. Aug 10, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jul 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:18 Guy Raz So we first had you on in 2024 and you told us the amazing story about how you moved from Iran to the U.S. when you were just 17 years old.

MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian Mar 25, 2024 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Mar 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:35 Guy Raz And he came to the United States penniless from Iran in the, in the early seventies.

The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2 Feb 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:34 Guy Raz I keep thinking about the nuclear analogy, right, because there are nine nuclear powers and probably will be 10 with Iran eventually, and we're talking about states, nation states, and all, all of them pursued this 2 times in the scene

Grindr: Joel Simkhai Jul 17, 2023 · 1 mention

HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid Sep 8, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 14, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:40 Guy Raz He's the son of Iranian immigrants, and as a teenager, he was into computers and art and design.

Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri Nov 22, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Feb 1, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Aug 17, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:52 Guy Raz His mother was German, and his father was from Iran, and came from a long line of doctors.

How I Built Resilience: Taha Bawa of Goodwall Jul 30, 2020 · 1 mention

Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman Apr 13, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:34 Guy Raz Yeah, and your family were Iranian Jews, they left Iran during the revolution and came to L.A., like a lot of Iranian Jews and non-Jews. 3 times in the scene

Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017) Jul 9, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jun 4, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 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 May 8, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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
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