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Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor
Advice Line with Ronnen Harary of Spin Master/PAW Patrol
- ▶ 40:41 Ronnen Harary I, I remember trips where I'd go to a trade show in Japan, and I'd rush to get home,
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
- ▶ 1:33 Guy Raz NVIDIA's value is now more than the entire economic output of Japan or the UK or France.
- ▶ 18:34 Jensen Huang And so, I went to Japan, and, um, I contacted the CEO.
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
Advice Line: What’s Your Value?
Advice Line with Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post
- ▶ 29:28 Sayuri Tsuchitani And when, when I went back to Japan to visit my mom, I realized she hasn't changed the tatami clover since she first moved to the house. 6 times in the scene
Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
- ▶ 27:47 John Osher I told millions in Japan, and we were probably in the interactive candy back then, we're probably doing 40, fifty million dollars of the candy.
- ▶ 51:49 John Osher I did presentations in Japan.
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
- ▶ 1:12:32 Reed Hastings And we were the first to say, hey, with the internet, we can be direct to consumer in India, in Japan, in South Africa, in Brazil, uh, in France.
Advice Line: Tapping AI as a Resource for Your Business
Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
- ▶ 15:02 Bobby Trussell We, we had this, um, mattress operation here, uh, but they made me CEO of the group, which included 26 countries, so all of a sudden, under my purview was, uh, you know, Spain and France and, and, uh, Japan, and what I learned there is,
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- ▶ 24:27 unnamed speaker And they were doing these little vacuum insulated Japanese milk bottles. 2 times in the scene
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
- ▶ 12:26 Alex and Mike Faherty I was 23 years old, and I was in Hong Kong four times a year, going from Hong Kong to Chennai, India, to Taipei, to Japan, to Tokyo, and, you know, working on that line, double RL, was a gift because, you know, the dream for Ralph was like…
- ▶ 25:39 Guy Raz When we come back after a quick break, how a cross-country road trip, an old-fashioned catalog, and a boutique clothing store in Japan all helped the Faraday brand get on its feet.
- ▶ 38:04 Alex and Mike Faherty One of the other things was all of a sudden we get this random email in Japanese from a store, uh, called Journal Standard, which is a very well-known kind of cool specialty boutique in, in Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:50 Alex and Mike Faherty And then Japan was probably 40% of that first year's wholesale business.
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire.
- ▶ 33:30 Carlton Calvin So I'm reading an article in the LA Times, and there's an article about adults in Japan, in Tokyo, riding scooters called the Razor Scooter. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Tim Ferriss
- ▶ 32:14 Kimberly Becker Japan and Italy, mostly.
Exclusive Update: The Chef Who Shocked the Culinary World and Why He’s Changing Course Again—Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park
- ▶ 2:39 Guy Raz They visited Japan and discovered all kinds of new ingredients, things like tonburi, which is a seed from a cypress tree found mainly in Japan that tastes and feels like caviar. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:07 Daniel Humm I've learned tamburi, which is also referred as land caviar, but it's something that is used in Japan, mostly in, in the Zen Buddhist cuisine.
- ▶ 30:09 Daniel Humm Travel in India, traveling Japan, learning about the Zen Buddhist cuisine, um, going to the Middle East, all these places, um, it's changed my life.
Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Hexclad: Danny Winer
- ▶ 1:09:44 Danny Winer Like I told you, like the steel, our steel is manufactured in Japan for that.
Vizio: William Wang
- ▶ 41:24 William Wang The supply chain at that time for Sony or Panasonic is Sony will build a TV in Japan, which is very expensive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:23 William Wang To break even, and so Costco clear was the winner, and, uh, also, right, we, we look at inventory control like a hawk, you know, versus big company like Sony and Panasonic, and for them to make a decision, the salesperson got to talk to…
Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon
Marucci Sports - Kurt Ainsworth
Advice Line with Vicky Tsai of Tatcha
- ▶ 1:06 Guy Raz It's a skincare company rooted in Japanese beauty rituals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:27 Vicky Tsai Our things are handmade in Japan.
Olipop: Ben Goodwin
- ▶ 40:37 Ben Goodwin And I, my whole life I'd wanted to go to Japan, um, and so I'm like, I'm going to Japan. 2 times in the scene
Specialized Bicycle Components: Mike Sinyard
- ▶ 18:15 Mike Sinyard I knew some of the best makers of tires were in Japan, and so I contacted the Japanese commercial consulate in San Francisco, and those consulates are there to promote the business of 2 times in the scene
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- ▶ 43:08 Bayard Winthrop I don't want to get too wonky with your audience, but it requires a certain type of knitting machines, and those machines had gone over to Japan a long time ago,
The Cronut and Dominique Ansel Bakery: Dominique Ansel
Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps
- ▶ 26:54 Brandy Shelton Whether that's India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, and so it works now because we're just doing a couple of 100,000 kilos a year in tea.
Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne
MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
- ▶ 14:49 Isaac Larian So I started looking for, uh, in Japan, in Singapore, in Hong Kong, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:25 Isaac Larian Secondly, Japanese companies sold the product in the USA at a much higher price than they did in, in Japan or Singapore or Hong Kong. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:50 Isaac Larian And, uh, asked to talk to the export manager, and if you have dealt and you've been in Japan, you don't just walk into some place and say, I want to see the export manager.
Weee!: Larry Liu
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
- ▶ 16:05 Scott Norton And at the, at the time, this particular one, he was hosting Catherine the Great of Russia, as well as the emperor of Japan, who had brought a very special sample of Kobe beef.
- ▶ 31:03 Scott Norton I landed in Japan in, at the end of August.
Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- ▶ 12:37 Jamie Cormack There was too many useless features, and we really probably looked more internationally to Japan and the aesthetic of quality and simple, and felt like you could dress it up, dress it down, and as we kept bouncing back and forth on ideas,…
- ▶ 13:10 Lyndon Cormack In the latter years, I was carrying a brand from Japan called Porter, which is, you know, still a beautiful, beautiful brand, and it was expensive for what people would say a backpack is, but very, very simplistic and pared down.
- ▶ 27:14 Jamie Cormack I think internationally, we saw a lot, especially in Japan, that market had less complex bags.
- ▶ 52:34 Jamie Cormack Relationships in Japan, and Linden and I early days started to take a lot of time and go over to a large trade show in Berlin called Bread and Butter to get some great
Vuori: Joe Kudla
The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
- ▶ 3:32 Guy Raz Hank's dad worked in the jewelry business, and went on to move the family to Japan.
- ▶ 5:03 Guy Raz So you, you don't finish university, but you, you end up moving to Japan to, uh, followed a girl who became your wife, and, and, and she was, is Japanese? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:42 Guy Raz So, you work with your dad for around six years, um, and I guess around 1982, you decide to leave and to start your own business, and it, it, it, it's related to the personal computer boom that's starting to happen, particularly in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:33 Henk Rogers Yeah, so the Black Onyx was the first role-playing game in Japan, and this is in the days when one person could write a game all by themselves. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:56 Guy Raz Existing games that you could license or bring to Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 Guy Raz And, and I read that you thought that this was a game that you could maybe publish in, in Japan. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:10 Henk Rogers I was licensing games from all over the planet and publishing them in Japan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:55 Guy Raz And you were going to these trade shows in the US constantly looking for new games to bring back to Japan to license. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:46 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Hank brings Tetris to Japan, gets a two million dollar loan to keep production going, and then discovers that even though he thinks he has the rights to the game, he really doesn't.
- ▶ 24:13 Guy Raz Uh, but I guess you thought, uh, that, that maybe you could get the license for Japan. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 Guy Raz I mean, to publish the game in Japan. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:13 Guy Raz Alright, so, Tetris is starting to take off on the Nintendo consoles in Japan.
- ▶ 37:03 Henk Rogers We shook hands on that, and then I'm, I'm back in Japan, and I'm like, now I'm really on, on Stein.
- ▶ 40:03 Henk Rogers I said, look, I didn't come all this way to stand in front of a door and go back to Japan, get a visa, and then come back. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:48 Henk Rogers And, you know, I'm a Dutchman who sounds like an American who has a publishing company in Japan publishing, you know, game that he claims to have licensed from.
- ▶ 49:58 Guy Raz So, you were taking a gamble, but you knew that this game was already taking off in Japan.
- ▶ 51:17 Guy Raz You secured the rights for, uh, Nintendo in Japan, and then you also had the rights, the worldwide rights to Tetris on the Game Boy, right?
- ▶ 56:10 Henk Rogers A Game Boy player in Japan could not play the arcade, because the, it's like the brakes and the gas pedal were reversed.
MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
- ▶ 38:49 Scott Svenson At the time, Starbucks was very established in the U.S., and they had gone to Japan as part of their first step to becoming an international brand.
Mary's Gone Crackers: Mary Waldner
- ▶ 55:43 Mary Waldner Cracker manufacturer in Japan. 2 times in the scene
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
Manduka: Peter Sterios
- ▶ 45:38 Peter Sterios Whatever the United States is doing, it's gonna track internationally at some point, and that's what's happened, that, that the growth started happening in the strangest of places, especially in Taiwan or in Japan, and then I realized that… 3 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
- ▶ 13:39 Nuseir Yassin In New York City, off to Egypt today, Kenya, Ethiopia, India, then Nepal, then Japan, and then all the way to Man Francisco, and then back home to New York City.
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly
- ▶ 1:15:34 Maureen Kelly You know, I loved, I loved, um, what I was doing, but, um, Kosei is kind of like the equivalent of, um, like a Lauder or a L'Oreal in, um, in Japan, and they were looking to acquire a company that they could study and learn from to, like,…
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
- ▶ 4:25 Carlos Araque Uh, I went to Japan twice to race these
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
- ▶ 5:20 Aryé Elfenbein I had, uh, done a PhD mostly in Japan, uh, around the same time and in the same place where the discovery was made that we could create stem cells, um, from ordinary skin cells that completely revolutionized the world of science.
Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
- ▶ 23:58 Arran Stephens Imported directly a macrobiotic line from Japan.
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
Dang Foods: Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn
- ▶ 42:44 Vincent Kitirattragarn But then I was on a trip to Japan, and I saw these onion chips in the supermarket, and I was like, oh, this is really cool.
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur (2020)
- ▶ 3:45 Guy Raz Her dad was an American diplomat, and for most of Sarah's childhood, the family lived in Japan, where her mother was from. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:08 Sarah LaFleur Even just, like, watching how different my mom's journey was as a female entrepreneur in Japan versus me born, you know, 37 years later, and the benefits and the
Spin Master/PAW Patrol: Ronnen Harary
- ▶ 41:31 Guy Raz Alright, so, from what I understand, you started to go to Japan in 2000. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:22 Ronnen Harary We took it in, we, we did a whole bunch of development, and then what happened was, we said, well, you know, in Japan, they're so good with these, like, micro-mechanisms, maybe we can partner with someone in Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:42 Guy Raz All right, so you're developing this toy, this new toy, Bakugan, and I guess you decided to do something that you'd sort of learned about in Japan, which is when you launch it, you also launch a cartoon about, about the characters.
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 43:02 Brian Armstrong The people who I knew, knew who wanted to get Bitcoin, they were like, oh, well, I guess it's hard to get, but nobody wants, really wants to get that much of it anyway, that it wasn't a big thing, and so I guess I'll just wire money to… 2 times in the scene
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver
- ▶ 44:17 Fawn Weaver Beam is owned by Centauri, a Japanese company.
inov-8: Wayne Edy
- ▶ 43:24 Wayne Edy They are slow on the decision-making process, and everything has to go back to Japan to take decisions, and here was a company that I'd built on the whole philosophy of being nimble and a real challenger brand, and suddenly I'm sitting as…
- ▶ 46:59 Guy Raz Okay, I'm imagining, because something happened in twenty-twenty, in the middle of the pandemic, very quietly, and imagining it has a connection with your decision to sell your shares in garment, which is, you bought Innovate back from…
Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
- ▶ 41:05 Steve Holmes And we got to go from Costco Canada to Costco Japan, which made no sense to us. 2 times in the scene
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown (2018)
Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim
- ▶ 44:12 Ahmed Rahim Well, it's a to-go culture, so you want something that you can take with you, um, where a lot of places they'll actually sit, and obviously in this time where everything is on the run, yeah, the ceremony of tea you can still find if you go…
Boxed: Chieh Huang
- ▶ 10:43 Chieh Huang And she said, um, you basically move out into Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Guy Raz So you get into this program and where do they send you in, in Japan? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:50 Guy Raz So I guess you ended up spending, like, two years in, in Japan, and, and then I guess when you went back to the U.S., you decide, uh, to go to law school, right?
- ▶ 35:29 Chieh Huang So we, uh, got a message, ironically, on Facebook from one of the largest gaming, social gaming companies in Japan where social gaming had already taken off on mobile. 5 times in the scene
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