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Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
- ▶ 8:11 Guy Raz This could be a concept, like, this could be, I could open a location in San Francisco, I could open a location in Los Angeles, or do you remember thinking that way?
- ▶ 14:41 Serena Dugan We were on our way to set, and I had a friend call me from LA, and he just said, you've got to turn on the TV.
- ▶ 26:36 Lily Kanter We got the name of an agent that can help us in Los Angeles find a printing source that can print our fabric for us.
- ▶ 32:39 Lily Kanter We found a cut and sew facility down in LA, and there was a, there was a speed to market that we were able to accomplish with a lot of scrappiness, scrappy thinking, and scrappy vendors, and so we were able to get this first production… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:41 Guy Raz Why wouldn't you open in San Francisco, for example, or, or in, I don't know, in Los Angeles?
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company.
- ▶ 11:56 Chuck Surack Why don't you go to LA?
- ▶ 30:45 Chuck Surack Then I can get out of my local store in LA or New York or wherever it may be.
- ▶ 43:56 Chuck Surack I remember when I was hiring young people years ago, I would tell them the deposit on your house out in L.A. or some other big cities would buy your whole house in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
- ▶ 3:23 Brian Smith oh my god, all of my friends were tracking off to partnerships, and in the accounting world, and other friends who'd started business out of high school, and I, I felt like I'd been running on the spot for 10 years, so it was, literally,…
- ▶ 4:03 Guy Raz L.A.
- ▶ 5:58 Guy Raz Um, alright, so you, you are in LA.
- ▶ 56:46 Brian Smith And the next day was, oh, I found a guy in Los Angeles to look in on you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:34 Brian Smith One of my best surf shops, it was a pretty hardcore surf shop in Hermosa Beach in LA, said this grandmother drove into the shop because they had Uggs on the big banner outside, and she ordered eight pairs for all her grandchildren, and she…
Advice Line with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation
- ▶ 38:14 Caroline Buck We are in Erewhon stores in Los Angeles. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 0:12 John Gabbert One of the big decisions we made was there was a location in Los Angeles that I fell in love with.
- ▶ 48:37 John Gabbert In, uh, New York and San Francisco, one of the big decisions we made was there was a location in Los Angeles that I fell in love with, and we sat down as a group and said, okay, can we do this?
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
- ▶ 8:57 Anthony Cortez It was supposed to be temporary and then it snowballs and now, uh, we're in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orlando, Tampa, now just Miami. 3 times in the scene
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
- ▶ 26:39 Guy Raz And she also relocates to Los Angeles, where she begins working with another high profile figure, the actress Jessica Alba. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:39 Guy Raz Alright, you are in LA, which is the home of some great, um, beauty brands.
- ▶ 38:56 Guy Raz I'm just, you know, in, in, in the world you lived in, in Los Angeles, in this sort of beauty world, I don't know, maybe people kind of turned up their nose at that idea.
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business
Advice Line with Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post
- ▶ 28:36 Sayuri Tsuchitani I am calling from Los Angeles, California.
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
- ▶ 12:01 Jim McKelvey Well, no, it was IBM in Los Angeles. 2 times in the scene
Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 30:01 Joan Barnes Well, first of all, we built out already the Northern California market because I was able to do that on my own even before we were growing, but when we opened in LA, it was a different story, and the LA franchisees, um, were… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:35 Guy Raz And, and so this really what, and you, it sounds like you were targeting, um, you know, sort of affluent places initially, New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco, but you were also in Kansas City.
- ▶ 59:20 Joan Barnes Bradley in LA.
- ▶ 1:11:05 Joan Barnes They were in LA, but they'd buy other studios like me and change the branding, so now it went from the name I called it to YogaWorks.
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- ▶ 34:41 Guy Raz And in, in 1994, right, even though Starbucks was starting to kind of grow, it was in San Francisco and Los Angeles and, and, and people were sort of starting to develop a taste for that Starbucks darker roast, which a lot of people for a…
- ▶ 41:56 J.P. Iberti Yeah, it's, it's, it's a funny thing with kitchen, you know, a lot of people go into a kitchen and then move away to San Francisco, LA, Denver, Miami, and we had such roots in the kitchen with supply that people ended up taking us with…
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 0:30 Guy Raz This episode was actually recorded in front of a live audience in Los Angeles.
- ▶ 3:47 Guy Raz Earlier this month at the theater at Ace Hotel in downtown LA, I sat down with Michael Dubin in front of a live audience where I wanted to find out why, on snowy days, his mom used to force him and his sister to stay inside and solve math…
- ▶ 13:34 Guy Raz You decide to just go and move to, here to Los Angeles. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:14 Michael Dubin I said, she had just moved to LA too, and I said, hey, I'm starting this company.
- ▶ 47:23 Guy Raz This live interview was originally recorded at the theater at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles back in 2018.
- ▶ 48:58 Guy Raz Floyd and Julia built a life and a family together in L.A. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Todd Graves of Raising Cane's
- ▶ 35:46 Shane Lyons I'm the co-founder of Vesti in Los Angeles, California. 6 times in the scene
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
- ▶ 5:08 Guy Raz Even as a kid in the suburbs of LA, he had a habit of taking things apart just to see how they worked.
- ▶ 22:14 Guy Raz And you would just pick payphones in, like, major cities, like LA and New York?
- ▶ 26:52 Guy Raz And, and were you living, were you living in Seattle at the time, or were you living in LA? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:01 Guy Raz Local LA or? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:52 Elan Lee So when I moved back to Los Angeles, um, one of the things I like to do is take the bus to work.
Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
- ▶ 16:34 Guy Raz Alright, so you're, you're in New York, and I guess in the mid-seventies, you decide to move out to LA, and I, I have to imagine you go out there thinking, hey, I'm getting some work in commercials, maybe I can break into TV.
- ▶ 45:24 Guy Raz Because you're in LA.
- ▶ 47:52 Guy Raz But you're in LA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:26 Meredith Baer Uh, I have two warehouses in LA now, but I borrowed money from my house, you know, for the down payment on those.
- ▶ 54:07 Guy Raz San Francisco, Bay Area, LA, New York, Hamptons, and Miami, right?
- ▶ 54:43 Guy Raz I mean, when you, cause you were in L.A., you're in L.A., and so many celebrities have used the, your services, Bob Dylan, Harrison Ford, Reese Witherspoon, apparently Scarlett Johansson used you and liked what you did so much you decided… 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
- ▶ 18:26 Stacey Bernstein I'm Stacey Bernstein, and I'm calling in from Los Angeles, California, and I am co-founder of All Better Co., and we are reimagining Mom's First Aid Kit with better for you, better for the planet, daily skin health essentials.
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft
- ▶ 9:06 Alan Summerfield The, the technical, the technical story started actually almost 20 years ago in Los Angeles when I was working for one of the major shower manufacturers there.
- ▶ 20:29 Terri Levy I'm calling from Los Angeles, California, and I'm the founder of Ruckstar.
Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
- ▶ 24:45 Alex Hildebrandt We're very focused geographically, mostly between New York and Boston, and then between San Francisco and LA, uh, that's about the majority of our California sales, um, and that's kind of, uh, at the request of our distributor.
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
- ▶ 32:44 Alex and Mike Faherty You know, there's not a lot going, as much going on in Charlotte, North Carolina, as there is, it's going on in New York City or L.A., 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:31 Alex and Mike Faherty And then you had in the landscape at the time, you know, you had a store in LA called Fred Siegel, which was sort of like famous. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
Poppi: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. From Farmers Market Vinegar Drink to $2B Soda Sensation
Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire.
- ▶ 6:54 Carlton Calvin But at this time, so many of the crazes that were sweeping across the country would start in Los Angeles. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:49 Guy Raz You're in LA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:20 Guy Raz Still making them in a warehouse in LA.
- ▶ 35:53 Guy Raz In the U S and, uh, from, from what I gather, like to get the ball rolling on this, you connect with, with two guys who will soon eventually become your business partners, starting with, uh, there's a guy in LA
- ▶ 40:05 Carlton Calvin They might have been being sold in, like, convenience stores in L.A., you know, just like the Pogs.
Advice Line: Playing to Your Strengths
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
Crumbl: Jason McGowan
Simon Cowell: Music Mogul
- ▶ 52:43 Simon Cowell So I turn up in my very, very early twenties to LA and I'm like,
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
- ▶ 18:31 Guy Raz You would last there about a year before you decide to move to Los Angeles in 2000.
- ▶ 18:37 Guy Raz So you, um, you're in LA for, I think, for about a year doing some work.
- ▶ 25:45 Guy Raz Cause like in LA where I grew up, like a, you know, a taco, sort of traditional taco would be, or, you know, be like al pastor or maybe like a little bit of, uh, you know, carne asada with some, some onions and cilantro and that's it.
Advice Line with Troy Carter of Atom Factory
- ▶ 1:24 Guy Raz He told us about how he went from West Philadelphia to the heights of the music business in LA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:18 Guy Raz It's in Phoenix right now, but down the road, maybe get it to Tucson and to Los Angeles and San Diego.
- ▶ 33:25 Gina Davis I went to school in LA. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge
- ▶ 15:20 Jessica Off LA too.
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
- ▶ 55:31 Rick Steves I mean, my show ran every night in Los Angeles for years. 2 times in the scene
UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
- ▶ 36:37 Chris Riccobono So, um, we did it, and I remember sitting in LA in a hotel room, first read comes out, I have my Google Analytics up, and within, now people are driving, they shouldn't be going to the site, but within 20 seconds, there's a thousand people…
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
- ▶ 15:01 Paul Hedrick It feels like all the people in New York and LA and SF are sort of making the decisions around what the media and what the public perception of this category is, and
Advice Line with Luis von Ahn of Duolingo
Hexclad: Danny Winer
- ▶ 3:01 Guy Raz After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles where he hit round after round of auditions and cattle calls.
- ▶ 4:04 Guy Raz So you get to LA, and what, what did you do?
- ▶ 27:35 Danny Winer And there's a juice place in, in LA called the Beverly Hills juice club.
- ▶ 44:43 Guy Raz Mostly in LA or New York or both? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:56 Danny Winer Our eco-friendly aprons here in LA.
Advice Line with Jonathan Neman of Sweetgreen
- ▶ 27:16 Jonathan Neman So the idea is to create a, I'm thinking here in LA, for example, we have a famous farmer named Alex Weiser.
- ▶ 44:19 Jonathan Neman So places like LA or New York reacted much more positively to it than certain other cities.
Snap: Evan Spiegel
- ▶ 3:46 Guy Raz For now, what you need to know is that Evan grew up in the Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, an area, of course, devastated by the recent fires.
- ▶ 23:53 Guy Raz He's recruited a group of friends to the company, and they've all moved down to L.A. to work out of his dad's dining room. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:16 Evan Spiegel And so he would say, you know, hey, I'm coming to LA.
- ▶ 40:40 Evan Spiegel Ultimately, now we have a service called Snapchat Plus, but, you know, a lot of, a lot of the folks at that time was really on building out the team and then ultimately making the decision to really commit to, to building out the company…
Vizio: William Wang
Advice Line with Peter Rahal of RXBAR
- ▶ 17:45 Eric Rukiski My name's Eric Rukiski calling in from Los Angeles, California.
Advice Line with Jeff and Curran Dandurand of Jack Black Skin Care
Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
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