Italy, every mention
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MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant.
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
- ▶ 18:24 Peter Andrews Um, started as a chef, made wine in Italy.
KIND bars: Daniel Lubetzky. From peace in the Middle East to a $5 billion snack bar
- ▶ 18:05 Daniel Lubetzky And he connects me to Joel Benish, and Joel Benish is this beautiful human being who had a number of Arab friends, and I tell him the idea for PeaceWorks, and the reason he went bankrupt is he was buying glass jars from Portugal, and olive…
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
- ▶ 28:26 John Rarick I'm calling from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but I spend most of my time in Abruzzo, Italy, where I'm the owner of Cantina di Rosina, an organic vineyard and winery in southern Abruzzo. 3 times in the scene
diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)
Advice Line: What’s Your Value?
- ▶ 26:14 Mark Goldfarb He's from Italy, and he kept telling me it was the best pesto he ever had.
HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza
- ▶ 42:24 Jean-Luc Diard And we had people in Italy, and, and so.
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- ▶ 13:25 Todd Carmichael Umberto was a very famous roaster in Italy, in Umbria, before he even started roasting in Seattle.
- ▶ 29:39 J.P. Iberti All through Italy, and we bought everything we needed. 3 times in the scene
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
- ▶ 1:24:48 Loren Poncia My great grandfather immigrated from Garzano, Italy in 1897. 2 times in the scene
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
Advice Line with Dave Weiner of Priority Bicycles
Advice Line with Tim Ferriss
- ▶ 32:14 Kimberly Becker Japan and Italy, mostly.
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
- ▶ 31:50 Amy Errett And he said, I know these, these people who have a consultant company that help people develop hair color, and you know, the private label industry is all in Italy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:02 Amy Errett So we recruited models in Italy that come into their salon, and then they color their hair, and then we see what it looks like pre and post.
- ▶ 40:14 Guy Raz So, all right, so it's twenty-thirteen, you're working on the formulation, you find this Italian manufacturer, and you decide to raise, or you need to raise money, because you're, you can't, you don't have the funding to do it yourself.
- ▶ 1:16:58 Guy Raz By the way, since the hair color is made in Italy, all of the shades are named for Italian cities.
Exclusive Update: The Chef Who Shocked the Culinary World and Why He’s Changing Course Again—Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park
- ▶ 24:32 Daniel Humm We studied a lot the Mediterranean diet, and, uh, we traveled with our team to Greece and to Italy. 2 times in the scene
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 1:18 Guy Raz It's sort of like when Howard Schultz first visited Italy.
- ▶ 42:08 Josh Hochschuler It was actually in Italy.
Advice Line with Perry Chen of Kickstarter
- ▶ 22:37 Katherine Kirbis So we were taking groups to Costa Rica, and we did a trip to Italy as well.
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- ▶ 18:17 Scott Tannen Um, in, in India, China, Italy, Portugal, um, everywhere.
Advice Line with Angie Hicks of Angi
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 1:16 Guy Raz Over the summer, I took my family to Italy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:57 Rod Cuthbert And, you know, Dominique said to herself, you know, these guys, a lot of these guys, you know, they come here on an easy jet flight or a Ryanair flight, they're here for two or three days, and they're spending four hours in the Italian sun…
- ▶ 1:07:58 Guy Raz I got so obsessed with pistachio Nutella in Italy.
Advice Line: Reaching New Customers
- ▶ 17:56 Kaveh Nurmofidi Currently, our cost of goods sold is high because everything is worked on in the U.S. with the exception of our bottles, glass bottles, Naked arrives in the U.S. from Italy and Spain. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:07 Guy Raz I don't think it's one or the other, but I think that's a really promising channel for you, because this is something that, you know, um, you could sell to, like, my family's going to, you know, we just got back from Italy for three weeks.
Thrive Market: Nick Green
- ▶ 15:02 Nick Green Uh, he at the time was in Italy for a, uh, a tapping convention. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Guy Raz All right, so, so he eventually comes home from this tapping conference in Italy, and now, and that makes sense to me now that I know he's from Ojai, because I've been there, I love Ojai, a lot of spirituality, and Krishnamurti was there,…
Specialized Bicycle Components: Mike Sinyard
- ▶ 13:01 Mike Sinyard Milan in Italy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Mike Sinyard Yes, in the third year, I made the specialized tire, and, and at the time, I was importing some tires from a company in Italy, and they would get bubbles in them, and I remember reporting it to the factory, and they go, oh,
Advice Line with Joe Kudla of Vuori
Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane
Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye
- ▶ 4:50 Guy Raz But, but you end up transferring to NYU, and, and I know you also spent a year abroad, studying abroad in Italy, which, you know, would, would sort of have kind of an influence on what you would eventually do, because it was, it was sort…
- ▶ 20:57 Ariel Kaye So I did all this research, and I planned this trip to Portugal and Italy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:40 Ariel Kaye It's getting made in Italy.
Everlane: Michael Preysman
Vuori: Joe Kudla
Powering cars with solar energy with Steve Fambro of Aptera Motors
- ▶ 31:07 Steve Fambro And, uh, that's, that's what took us to Italy to CPC.
MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
- ▶ 47:19 Scott Svenson Love affair with Italy and all things Italian. 3 times in the scene
Dutch Bros. Coffee: Travis Boersma
Suitsupply: Fokke de Jong
- ▶ 3:44 Guy Raz And like some of the higher-end designer brands, all of its fabrics come from Italy.
- ▶ 5:07 Fokke de Jong And then somebody knew a guy that knew a guy that was selling suits straight out of Italy from a factory. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:04 Fokke de Jong And he made this sort of deal where the factory in Italy was producing suits for some of the bigger brands, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 Guy Raz When you first went to that factory in Italy, and you're in your early twenties, and you're like, hey, can you make me a bunch of suits? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:43 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, FOCA takes suit supply global, decides to move production out of Italy, and in the process, almost destroys the business.
- ▶ 30:16 Guy Raz So, you were, but, but, and you had these suits coming in from Italy, and, um, and I want, I'm trying to figure out, like,
- ▶ 37:00 Guy Raz Moved your manufacturing to China from Italy, where you were still sourcing your fabrics from, but no longer making the suits in Italy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:51 Guy Raz You want it made in Italy or, you know, made in London, even though the manufacturing base in those countries are very low, very small today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:56 Fokke de Jong We were in Italy.
HIBT Lab! New Culture: Matt Gibson and Inja Radman
- ▶ 19:00 Inja Radman And frankly, my bias being, uh, Southern Croatian and raised on very close to Italian
HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch
Michael Kors: Michael Kors
- ▶ 45:04 Guy Raz All right, so you struck a deal with, um, with a, uh, a licensee in Italy, a company to make this Coors line, and that ultimately proved to be, um, I guess, I don't know, didn't work out.
- ▶ 1:15:13 Michael Kors You know, whether it was leaving school when I was 19 years old and saying, let me start working, starting my own business with no experience, running and, and figuring out how to go to Italy and sign this license.
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
- ▶ 1:17:59 Jim VandeHei Or how do I end up on the Lido deck in Genoa, Italy during the trade protests when I'm working at the Wall Street Journal
Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly
- ▶ 15:02 Maureen Kelly Florida, New Jersey, New York, you know, Italy, of course, like all over the, all over the world, but absolutely, um, there are in, in New York and New Jersey.
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
- ▶ 54:25 Miles Copeland He's located in, in Italy or New York.
HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo
- ▶ 35:00 Beatriz Acevedo And we'd be, you know, same as Italy, same as France.
Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho
- ▶ 1:05:35 Kristian Tapaninaho At that stage, actually, had never visited Italy, but just had this love for pizza and wanted to make better tools for it.
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler
- ▶ 21:31 Polina Veksler Um, fabric widths, when we found the perfect fabric we loved in Italy,
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
- ▶ 1:00:34 Sam Calagione Ancient China, ancient Italy, ancient Turkey, and, uh, that's been a big, big part of our journey.
HIBT Lab! IDEO: David Kelley
- ▶ 11:34 David Kelley They probably don't plug in, but anyway, I had this friend named Ettore Satsas, who was a famous Italian architect, and if you were a designer, you were always in Italy and
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 32:53 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Matt alienates users by inadvertently putting spam on WordPress, and why he winds up walking the streets of Venice, Italy, while on vacation, desperately seeking a Wi-Fi connection.
- ▶ 40:29 Matt Mullenweg And we were in Italy. 2 times in the scene
Audible: Don Katz
inov-8: Wayne Edy
- ▶ 14:15 Wayne Edy So I, I had contacts in Italy and, uh, Portugal and in Asia, but for the type of footwear that we do, it's best made in Asia because that's where there's the most development and they have the best machinery and processes and materials to…
- ▶ 21:36 Wayne Edy I gave some product to some Italian athletes, and I sold some product to some other UK athletes, and that's where it all started from there to get international word out on the brand.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
- ▶ 12:07 Adam Grant And there was an experiment in Italy with startup founders a couple of years ago that, that demonstrated the value of this.
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 5:46 Gary Vaynerchuk He had a great uncle who was extremely well off, and so he was gonna kind of take care of us, but when we were in Italy waiting for our visas, he died.
Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- ▶ 20:50 Rich Barton But we moved to Florence, Italy with the whole family for a year.
Jovial Foods: Carla Bartolucci
- ▶ 1:44 Guy Raz They make olive oil and tomato paste and even cookies, all produced in Italy.
- ▶ 5:52 Carla Bartolucci I mean, there was, basically in Italy, people would choose a town that was similar to where they came from, and so a lot of people there lived, came from this one area of Fano, it's called, and they actually developed a neighborhood that…
- ▶ 8:26 Carla Bartolucci But he had been to Italy to reconnect with these relatives on his own once, and his final wish was to go back there. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:53 Carla Bartolucci And it said, if you majored in Italian and you have financial aid, you have to spend a year abroad in Italy and the program covers like your apartment. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 Guy Raz So I guess you two start dating, and at a certain point, you go back to the U.S. to finish college, but then you, you return to Italy, and you and Rodolfo move in together, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:13 Carla Bartolucci We just wanted to move back to Italy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:57 Guy Raz This is in Italy?
- ▶ 23:29 Carla Bartolucci So we called his father and said, go, in Italy, you have to write who is the co-packer.
- ▶ 35:56 Carla Bartolucci So he came to Italy, and we visited the factory, and then 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:39 Carla Bartolucci But the people in Italy, you know, the success really went to their heads, and they were the total opposites of us. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:11 Guy Raz This started to happen with more frequency when you were in Italy? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:09 Carla Bartolucci And I love this farmer because he would come in Italy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:38 Guy Raz But you make all of your, your things, and all your products are made in Italy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:45 Guy Raz All of the struggle that you went through, you know, starting the, the Piadini place, and mistake, and the, and then shutting it down, and going back and forth to Italy, and then back to America, and back to Italy, and then, you know, and…
Diapers.com & Jet.com: Marc Lore
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves
How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics
How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava
ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd (2018)
- ▶ 18:44 Janice Bryant Howroyd Yeah, she and Tommy were going to a Nimic conference in Italy, and, um, when he came back, I had reorganized things, put things in a form as I saw they should be,
Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole
- ▶ 14:35 Kenneth Cole Very little, but what I did was I went over to Italy cause that's where I had been working with candies and, and I found an agent who had a lot of credibility in the marketplace and that agent by nature of my relationship with that agent, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 Kenneth Cole I, I don't think we went outside, except when I went to Italy to, uh, make the, make the shoes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:35 Kenneth Cole And people were, they liked the shoes that people would, they bought them and I had them flown in from Italy
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