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Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
Advice Line: "Strategy Sessions"
- ▶ 15:30 Monica Soni My name is Monica Soni, calling in from London, and I'm the founder and creative director of Tress London. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Kenneth Cole
- ▶ 19:32 Emifa Gafe Yeah, so I was born and raised in London, but then we lived in Preston, so north, uh, northwest England, and then I spent a few years in Ghana before moving to Canada, so I've got a mishmash of all of the accents.
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
- ▶ 45:25 Maxine Clark The bear factory in the UK in London. 2 times in the scene
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
- ▶ 5:45 Guy Raz So, um, I, I guess this is around, uh, 1994, 95, uh, and after your marriage ends, um, I, I guess you wind up leaving New York to go overseas for a while, and you spent some time in, in London, you were in Hong Kong, and, and back in… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:15 Gregg Renfrew Nicole and I, but mostly me, because she was in London, so I raised, I don't remember how much, let's just say a half a million dollars or something through kind of friends and people I knew in my network, and maybe it was a million…
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
- ▶ 17:51 Sri Halima I'm calling from London.
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
- ▶ 21:20 Matt O'Hayer Got on phone with London and Austin and laid off a 140 people.
Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
- ▶ 30:37 Cameron Healy Well, Tim, uh, was a gentleman from, uh, Salem, Oregon originally, but he'd been, he'd gone on to become a, a banker in London, um, and we hit it off. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:11 Guy Raz Business in the UK, and you're starting a beer company with your son, so were you flying, like, Kona to Salem to London to Salem to Kona, like, was that your life?
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- ▶ 42:35 Ben Francis London or New York.
- ▶ 1:06:00 Ben Francis Today, we have, we've got three in London, Manchester, five. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
Simon Cowell: Music Mogul
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method
Figma: Dylan Field
- ▶ 57:46 Dylan Field Uh, at the start of twenty-twenty, we put into motion, uh, opening our first office outside the United States in London.
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
- ▶ 10:28 Guy Raz Um, you guys moved to London. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 Guy Raz You organized, I guess, after you finished high school, what we call high school, you, you decided not to go to university right away, but to organize the world beatbox convention in London. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:35 Michael Acton Smith It was buried in a field about a 120 miles north of London, and we put clues in the classified sections of, uh, newspapers around the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:23 Guy Raz Yeah, but you still, you were the hottest tech company, and one of the hottest tech companies in London.
- ▶ 38:09 Guy Raz Alright, so, so something else I think happens around this time, Alex, which is that you leave London and you move, uh, to the U.S. to take a job. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:14 Michael Acton Smith A lot of our friends and people we knew in London were, were very, very skeptical of meditation and mindfulness and talking about mental health. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:59 Michael Acton Smith But, um, the other challenge was that we had moved back to Europe and London, and most of our employees, hundreds of the team were based, uh, in the US. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line: Scaling Strategies
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 15:16 Hamish McKenzie Uh, there's Time Out in London.
Advice Line with Richard Branson of Virgin
- ▶ 6:09 Richard Branson You know, make Eurostar look like old trains, um, is the designer that created the Heathrow Clubhouse, um, in London, which, you know, has been there for many years, but anybody who flies with Virgin will talk about the Virgin Heathrow… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:10 Richard Branson Um, we once built a UFO, as you do, and, uh, we flew over London at four AM in the morning on April Fool's Day in a UFO, and, uh, the whole of London got into a panic, and the radio stations, the police, um, the army were called out. 2 times in the scene
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
Advice Line with Lyndon Cormack of Herschel Supply Co.
- ▶ 19:04 John Therling The business is based in London, but I'm currently in Johannesburg, South Africa. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:03 Guy Raz Anybody can, you know, you can be in London or wherever and use it and wear it.
Advice Line with Norma Kamali of Norma Kamali
- ▶ 1:54 Guy Raz It is such an amazing story, but basically in the, in the sixties, Norma was working as an airline clerk, and then using her employee discount to fly to London, and then buy up clothes, sort of secondhand clothes there, and then opened a…
- ▶ 8:54 Ahmed Ejaz So, so look, we're opening a second store in London in, in the next week or so.
BARK: Matt Meeker
Advice Line with Lara Merriken of LÄRABAR
- ▶ 34:34 Loretta Nkwacha I went to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, the same school that Judi Dench went to.
Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
- ▶ 1:10:11 Michael Houlihan Well, according to Drinks Magazine out of London, it's the top wine brand in the world today.
Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
The Cronut and Dominique Ansel Bakery: Dominique Ansel
- ▶ 55:30 Guy Raz Then you open London, um, a bakery there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:15 Guy Raz Because obviously, these restaurants were massively affected by the closures, and, and the first, I think the first closures, you decide to close the, the restaurant and bakery in LA, and over the next two years, you would begin to really…
CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
- ▶ 23:18 Mark Rober And, you know, they were based in London, I get to fly over there, I get to work remotely, I just, I just get to dip my toes in the water of what it's like to start a company, but with some guardrails.
Briogeo Hair Care: Nancy Twine (2020)
- ▶ 38:04 Nancy Twine You know, being on the trading floor, I was also working with, uh, the London market, so I needed to be at the desk by seven a.m.
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
- ▶ 18:38 Steven Udvar-Hazy That, to me, was a turning experience, even though there was no monetary benefit, I realized that maybe I, I could add some value to this industry, that I thought aviation was a growth industry, that I, I felt that aviation with the jet…
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
- ▶ 2:06 Guy Raz Back when I was a student in London in the mid-nineteen nineties, I used to get my coffee fix at an American style coffee bar. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:23 Guy Raz Alright, so you, you, you end up working there, and then I think they, they moved you to, to London. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:33 Ally Svenson I walked around looking for coffee because I thought Scott had just been working too hard, and he just hadn't found the good coffee places, and a family friend of mine worked in publishing, and I, I knocked on many doors trying to get jobs… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:17 Scott Svenson I was in Scotland on a work trip with, ah, the person I worked most closely with, the CEO of the company I was at, and his brother, who were both good friends, and they'd been hearing Ali and I talk about this coffee idea for years, and we… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 Guy Raz How you would build a coffee shop in London?
- ▶ 25:41 Ally Svenson They would show up in London.
- ▶ 28:46 Scott Svenson Um, we had always talked about wanting to bring to London two things, the Starbucks-style coffee experience and a bit of home. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:02 Ally Svenson And they became infatuated with Pete's Coffee and the whole Starbucks scene, and they were captivated by it all, actually learned a bit about coffee while they were there, and then they decided, are we going to set up a roastery, or are we… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:06 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, what happened when Starbucks did come to London, and how a van full of teens led Scott and Allie to think seriously about pizza?
- ▶ 37:03 Ally Svenson Tristan would wake up for his morning feed at whatever, four in the morning or something, and instead of us going back to sleep, we would load him up in the car after I fed him, and we would be able to drive what otherwise would have been,…
- ▶ 39:35 Scott Svenson Tokyo, and London, and we are in New York City, in Tokyo, and you're in London, and that's a problem, and so we want to solve that problem by working with you as opposed to against you, and, and so we ended up having this very, uh,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:46 Scott Svenson Ah, right after the transaction closed in London.
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
Suitsupply: Fokke de Jong
- ▶ 33:03 Fokke de Jong Uh, I think 2008, nine, I started with the first store in Belgium, and then in London. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:31 Guy Raz Now let's go back to London. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:45 Guy Raz I think by 2010, you had 32 stores, and I think that was in three countries, so between Belgium, uh, Holland, uh, London, maybe you had one or two other countries, still mainly Western, all in Western Europe. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! New Culture: Matt Gibson and Inja Radman
- ▶ 3:25 Inja Radman Um, I was working in London, uh, in consulting, in business, in a very different field.
HIBT Lab! Saysh: Wes and Allyson Felix
Michael Kors: Michael Kors
- ▶ 1:11:35 Michael Kors And then I have to sort of hit myself and remind myself, no, we're not only talking to people who live in New York City, we're not only talking to people who live in London, or Chicago, or Paris, these are all cold weather cities in the… 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
HIBT Lab! Biobot Analytics: Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli
- ▶ 30:10 Newsha Ghaeli It's important what's happening in London.
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
- ▶ 7:35 Miles Copeland You know, he sort of sold them as from London, you know.
- ▶ 7:46 Guy Raz Uh, your family actually moved to London, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:55 Guy Raz So it's around 1976, and Miles Copeland is in London starting over after losing all of his money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:41 Miles Copeland He wanted to be a punk group, and nothing was good enough, you know, and, um, I had come across a studio just outside of London where the, where the doctor, the MD by day, was hoping to become a record producer engineer and
- ▶ 35:43 Guy Raz So essentially now you've got this label IRS, which was based in London, right?
Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva
- ▶ 8:12 Guy Raz Um, but I guess around this time you also ended up going to London and, and spending time there for a while. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 Guy Raz Cause I, I think shortly after you, you broke up with a guy in London, you began dating someone new, a football player, NFL football player, Eric Dickerson.
Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho
- ▶ 4:43 Guy Raz He came to the UK as an art student to study photography, and that's where he met his future wife, Darina, who was also a student at the University for the Creative Arts in Kent, which is just outside London.
- ▶ 11:24 Kristian Tapaninaho This was in London already, so we moved out of Kent quite soon in
- ▶ 16:36 Kristian Tapaninaho December, 20 11, and I remember this very distinctly, um, sitting down in our, in our living room in London and, uh, said to Doreena that, uh, can I, can I pitch you this idea that I've got?
- ▶ 23:31 Kristian Tapaninaho So there was a, I found a small metal workshop, uh, down the road from us in an area called Catford in, in London, and there was under these railway arches, there was this small metal workshop that predominantly just made, like, garden…
- ▶ 32:06 Kristian Tapaninaho Outside of London, and also reached out to a few places in Finland.
- ▶ 42:02 Kristian Tapaninaho So, probably the first really dramatic, uh, event that we had was when this first production run of these Uni stacks arrived at our South London office.
HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 1:06:20 Guy Raz And when you introduce this from, from what I understand, you actually started in, uh, in London in the UK to, to test it out. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:02 Leah Solivan It started with a partnership conversation, and they knew that we were live in London, and London is one of their biggest markets, and London for us was number four out of all the markets we were launched in, so we were doing very well in… 4 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Google: Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 26:46 Sundar Pichai In our urban offices like New York or London, very quickly we get back to 65, 70% occupancy right away, so it's a strong sense of people wanting to come in.
Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Food: Sukhi Singh and Dalbir Singh
- ▶ 9:33 Guy Raz You and Surinder get married, and, and at that time, he's an officer in the Indian Air Force, and I guess eventually gets posted to London.
- ▶ 19:51 Sukhi Singh You know, I used the sauce that I used to make in London.
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson (2019)
- ▶ 2:02 Guy Raz The other, Rich Pearson, was a rising star at a top-tier advertising agency in London.
- ▶ 20:29 Andy Puddicombe So I did, and I don't really kind of know how it happened, but I was there, and one of them said, hey, look, you know, you can do a degree in this back in London, and I was already thinking, okay, how do I make this transition from… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:56 Guy Raz Like, when you met Andy, you were, uh, I guess in your mid-twenties and working in London at this sort of high-powered ad agency called BBH. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:52 Andy Puddicombe Yeah, I think, so the 20 grand went on that, and then I remember sitting on the back of Richie's moped, traveling around London, looking at, trying to find the right venue, and we eventually settled on, on BAFTA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:10 Rich Pierson We had people in London.
- ▶ 50:31 Guy Raz And right around this time, they decide to relocate the business from London to Los Angeles. 3 times in the scene
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
Audible: Don Katz
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 38:58 Gary Vaynerchuk So me and Eric Kastner go to London
Live Episode! Wellness Coach and Podcaster: Jay Shetty
- ▶ 1:01 Guy Raz Jay grew up in London, the child of Indian immigrants and the oldest of two kids.
- ▶ 2:05 Guy Raz I read that, that when your dad was in his, maybe in his early forties, I think, I, I guess he, he worked in the city in London, so maybe I'm thinking in the, in the financial district, that he, he started to get spiritual, actually. 3 times in the scene
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