Kinko's, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Kinko's comes up
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 1
- ▶ 33:24 Caue Suplicy I ended up going to, at the time, I was still called Kinko's, printed our design of the package in a sticker, and bought a little stand-up pouch, and it stickered this stand-up pouch with our branding.
Banana Republic: Mel and Patricia Ziegler
- ▶ 41:35 Mel Ziegler It was the pre Kinko's days.
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
- ▶ 1:26 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Paul Orfala rented a Xerox machine for 1100 bucks a month and grew a single store into a global photocopy shop with an instantly recognizable name, Kinko's. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:57 Paul Orfalea Kinkos. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:28 Guy Raz Were there lines outside Kinko's, or was it just, was it busy, or was it erratic? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:32 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Paul starts to grow Kinko's beyond that first location, and how he learns that keeping your store open all night will bring in more customers during the day.
- ▶ 19:12 Guy Raz His first Kinko's in the Santa Barbara area is a big success, but he's not satisfied with having just one store.
- ▶ 23:26 Paul Orfalea Professor leave things on file with Kinko's as well as a reserve book room.
- ▶ 24:15 Guy Raz Kinko's locations. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:17 Guy Raz Paul, between 1970, when you opened that first shop in Isla Vista in 1980, but in that 10 year period, you expanded to 80 stores across the United States, Kinko stores. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:07 Guy Raz And this was at a point where Kinko's, you had 80 locations, but it still wasn't the ubiquitous brand it would eventually become. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:21 Guy Raz I mean, 1980, you got, you got 80 stores, so you're, you know, but, but still, like, there are large parts of America that never heard of Kinko's. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:51 Guy Raz Okay, so, so the 24 hour Kinko's really kind of changed the game here, and now Kinko's is really, the, the, the local owners are starting to see their business, uh, growing, but I, I guess, uh, you know, at the same time, there were still… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:20 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, yet another threat to Kinkos, a major copyright lawsuit, and Paul explains why you should never fall in love with your own business.
- ▶ 42:51 Guy Raz So it's the late 19 eighties, and Paul has grown Kinko's from a single store near Santa Barbara into a nationwide chain. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:51 Guy Raz Wind up suing Kinko's over this program that you had that where you would photocopy, uh, parts of textbooks, and then college students would buy them, right, instead of buying the book.
- ▶ 51:10 Guy Raz And meantime, it seems like Kinko's was a self, it was like a self-multiplying cellular organism. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:27 Guy Raz So you, you found an investment firm that, that they would buy a 30% stake in Kinko's, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:45 Guy Raz Knows Kinko's. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:19 Guy Raz That's Paul Orfala, founder of Kinko's. 2 times in the scene
Complexly: Hank and John Green
- ▶ 49:17 Hank and John Green You know, it was to the point where, like, the night before the event, I was like, we need a sign at the bottom of the escalator telling people which way to go, and I was at Kinko's, and like, you know, really just making it happen one way…
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
- ▶ 37:20 Mac McCaughan Worked in the record store, worked at Kinko's. 2 times in the scene
The Laundress: Lindsey Boyd
- ▶ 28:03 Lindsey Boyd We discovered that we would spend a ton of time at Kinko's making copies.
Live Episode! New Belgium Brewing Company: Kim Jordan
- ▶ 24:24 Kim Jordan And then you, I would go to Kinko's at night and work on, you know, point of sale and marketing things.