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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Manhattan comes up
MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant.
- ▶ 48:30 Nima Fotovat With 10 stores, 10 top stores in Manhattan, I hire a merchandiser, I hire a demo crew, and I made sure that when we're listed there, we have great numbers.
Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)
Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
- ▶ 45:01 Meredith Baer What happened is the LA Times Sunday, you know, did a story on me, and then the New York Times, all of a sudden we're getting phone calls from Connecticut, Manhattan, so we open up shop there, and then, you know, people want us to come to…
- ▶ 48:26 Guy Raz You've got one in Connecticut and Florida, and you're expanding into Manhattan.
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
- ▶ 22:03 Jeff Braverman Um, and I need a draw, because I need some money to, I was still living in Manhattan, so I took a 28,000 dollar draw against my profit share.
- ▶ 34:55 Jeff Braverman I, we would, there was a serendipitous moment where, uh, my friend wasn't, wasn't well, and I donated blood for him on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, and instead of, you know, drinking the orange juice or apple juice, I went to Dylan's…
Exclusive Update: The Chef Who Shocked the Culinary World and Why He’s Changing Course Again—Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya (2022)
- ▶ 10:16 Hamdi Ulukaya So she had a school in Albany, she had a school in Manhattan, and I remember saying that, you know, those big buildings and big town, big city, not in there, but
- ▶ 14:02 Guy Raz And, and I think at this point you had transferred to, uh, to Baruch College in Manhattan.
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
- ▶ 8:32 Paul Hedrick I hadn't even thought about a backup plan, and I kind of believed, I had read somewhere about burning the bridges, and I think I knew in, in the back of my head that I needed to burn bridges to consolidate my choices, and so I had actually…
- ▶ 1:03:12 Paul Hedrick Maybe your friends just started wearing them in Manhattan, perhaps, but I actually am excited because I think it passed a tipping point.
Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball
- ▶ 39:40 Chris Ruder If you've never been, it's this quirky, massive sporting goods store in Manhattan.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 1:05:14 Rod Cuthbert People who do things at the drop of a hat, who decide, you know, on a Friday afternoon, let's fly to Manhattan for the weekend, and then they book their, their, their activities in the lobby of the hotel the next day.
Insomnia Cookies: Seth Berkowitz
- ▶ 3:51 Guy Raz Seth Berkowitz grew up in Rockland County, New York, about 45 minutes from Manhattan.
- ▶ 27:20 Seth Berkowitz So I moved to Manhattan, so I graduated, I got engaged, and so New York became our, kind of, our headquarters, and we had a small office in New York, but we were doing everything from that area, so we were driving up to Syracuse frequently. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:23 Seth Berkowitz And one thing that helped us there was I opened up a location on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, two blocks from where I lived at the time.
Ouidad hair products: Ouidad Wise
ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko
- ▶ 11:48 Marc Ecko I'd even go into Manhattan occasionally.
- ▶ 31:39 Marc Ecko And I knew it, and it did start to sell, especially in Manhattan.
- ▶ 1:03:31 Marc Ecko I wanted to move to a bigger showroom in Manhattan, but I had two, so I was running two showrooms, and we converted one to complex, and we just went for it.
Priority Bicycles: Dave Weiner
- ▶ 58:17 Dave Weiner Certainly they weren't coming to our showroom in Manhattan to look at bikes.
Etsy: Rob Kalin
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
- ▶ 10:14 Steven Udvar-Hazy You know, she drove us into Manhattan. 3 times in the scene
Delivering the future in drones with Keller Rinaudo Cliffton of Zipline
- ▶ 27:38 Keller Rinaudo Cliffton I think that a lot of people who hear about this sort of thing say, oh, well, it must not be working because it isn't serving me in San Francisco or in Manhattan.
Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings
- ▶ 1:40 Tina Roth-Eisenberg I had, uh, one interview lined up in a small design studio in downtown Manhattan, and that interview was 16 hours after arriving in New York, and after five minutes of walking into that studio and talking to Matthew Waltman, who ran it,…
- ▶ 12:09 Tina Roth-Eisenberg And, you know, I, my desk was literally on the East River looking at Manhattan and, you know, in moments where my heart was bursting out of my chest because what we created was so magical and so beautiful.
HIBT Lab! Babcock Ranch: Syd Kitson
Michael Kors: Michael Kors
- ▶ 11:29 Michael Kors I, I grew up, you know, loving movies, and The Wizard of Oz was, you know, when I was growing up, that was just the ultimate magic, and I really did think of Manhattan and New York City as Oz, and so there was never any question that, that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 Michael Kors So the next thing I knew, I was set up with a little workshop in Manhattan.
HIBT Lab! Biobot Analytics: Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli
- ▶ 20:57 Newsha Ghaeli So the types of buildings we monitor can range from large office campuses or parks in Texas or, um, California, all the way to skyscrapers in Manhattan.
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya
- ▶ 11:03 Hamdi Ulukaya So she had a school in Albany, she had a school in Manhattan, and I remember saying that, you know, those big buildings and big town, big city, not
- ▶ 15:09 Guy Raz In Manhattan.
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
- ▶ 19:45 Mike Salguero We called it a shack in Manhattan. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Wonder: Marc Lore
HIBT Lab! Yolélé: Pierre Thiam
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
- ▶ 15:03 Sam Calagione There was one store, I think, in all the five boroughs, or at least in Manhattan, called Little Shop of Hops, and you could buy these, like, prefab kits, and he walked out and went to the Upper West Side, where he lived with his kit, and I…
- ▶ 31:58 Sam Calagione And, uh, I also knew that beautiful coastal Delaware is, you know, pretty much two hours from DC, Baltimore, Philly, three and a half from Manhattan, so it'd actually be like an ideal hub to eventually distribute beer to major metro…
- ▶ 43:46 Sam Calagione I knew that if I could start distributing the, the beers to cities like DC, Baltimore, Philly, Manhattan, and I could get the Washington Post to write about a beer made with raisins, or the Philly Inquirer to write about a beer made with…
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
- ▶ 36:53 Shan-Lyn Ma I remember Nobu would come to my apartment in downtown Manhattan.
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- ▶ 1:00:31 Mitchell Gold You're opening a store a couple blocks from us in Manhattan.
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur (2020)
- ▶ 34:26 Sarah LaFleur In the garment district of, of Manhattan.
Diapers.com & Jet.com: Marc Lore
UPPAbaby: Bob and Lauren Monahan
- ▶ 21:09 Guy Raz And her, and her dad, he was in commercial real estate in Manhattan, right?
- ▶ 29:22 Lauren Monahan It's where, if you were in Manhattan when you were having a baby, that's where you were going. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:14 Lauren Monahan So a close friend of mine who lived in Manhattan had a friend who had a PR agency, and so we decided to commit for a year what was at the time, yes, a really, it seemed to us to be a very expensive investment to kind of help us get the…
Hinge: Justin McLeod
- ▶ 1:00:04 Justin McLeod I moved from a big chalet in the Alps to my 300 square foot studio apartment in Manhattan.
Norma Kamali: Norma Kamali
Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender
Author and Podcaster: Tim Ferriss
- ▶ 4:02 Tim Ferriss I didn't realize how strange that environment was, and I worked in restaurants growing up, and got to see the best and the worst of Manhattanites.
How I Built Resilience: Emily Powell of Powell's Books
- ▶ 21:20 Emily Powell And if you could think about a beautiful part of say Manhattan or San Francisco, well, the rent's just not going to support a bookstore.
Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole
How I Built Resilience: John Zimmer of Lyft
- ▶ 10:33 John Zimmer I think in like a very urban core, I mean, Manhattan is a great example. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster
- ▶ 15:44 Ben Conniff And yeah, those conversations really sparked the ingenuity on our side to say we can, you know, now that we're not limited to the four walls of the Luke's Lobster Shack in Manhattan, we can actually
Chilewich: Sandy Chilewich
- ▶ 36:17 Sandy Chilewich Well, you live near a hospital wherever you are in Manhattan.
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
- ▶ 23:46 Oliver Kharraz We launched in Manhattan, so you can literally go down the street, and you see-
- ▶ 29:15 Oliver Kharraz We put up a huge map of Manhattan on the wall, and then actually put little flags on it of where the doctors were that we had on the website, and which insurances they accepted, and we, we, we just, we knew that perseverance is, uh, the…
Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
- ▶ 13:26 Michael Kirban Uh, in Manhattan.
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
- ▶ 10:59 Vicky Tsai I didn't want to be in Manhattan anymore.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Tobias Lütke and Jon Stein
How I Built Resilience: Live with Christina Tosi and Gary Erickson & Kit Crawford
How I Built Resilience: Live with José Andrés
- ▶ 14:52 José Andrés Uh, they are the people that work in the rich Manhattan, and they are not doing so well.
Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop
- ▶ 4:24 Guy Raz When we sat down to talk, I was in my home studio in Oakland, California, and Rich and Vicki set up some microphones we sent out to them at their apartment in Manhattan.
- ▶ 6:04 Rich Fulop So, same class, same year, um, actually had, um, many common friends, and we were kind of interconnected and very much in and around each other, but we'd never met until about six months after we graduated, we found ourselves living in the…
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 39:28 Casey Neistat And the visuals in the video are, uh, my brother Van and I running around Manhattan, and this is when they had that ubiquitous ad campaign of the silhouettes dancing with an iPhone.
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur
- ▶ 36:03 Sarah LaFleur In the garment district of, of Manhattan.
Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018)
- ▶ 40:05 Steve Madden Yeah, we have a factory in Long Island City, just outside the East River in Manhattan.
Tate's Bake Shop: Kathleen King
Remembering Jake Burton Carpenter
Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff
- ▶ 34:25 Ben Conniff It was on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.
FUBU: Daymond John (2018)
- ▶ 13:46 Daymond John I went all uptown Manhattan.
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
- ▶ 17:51 Matt Lieber I was on my way into a job interview in downtown Manhattan at a staffing firm. 2 times in the scene
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018)
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)
- ▶ 9:51 Wendy Kopp So, you know, I think my timing was just perfect, and he said, I'll tell you what, I'll let you use our office in Manhattan, and I'll introduce you to some other folks.
Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley
Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017)
Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018)
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
- ▶ 2:24 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how two friends hustled their way into Manhattan real estate, and in just seven years, built a seventeen billion dollar office sharing company called WeWork.
- ▶ 16:19 Miguel McKelvey And that's actually, um, the way we became closer friends was he was looking for a new office for his baby clothing company, and he was looking at spaces in Manhattan, and I was like, look, you're gonna get double the space for half the…
- ▶ 26:48 Miguel McKelvey We're like, this is amazing, everyone loves it, we're gonna grow, and we started looking at Manhattan, looking at San Francisco, thinking of other locations, but they had a portfolio that they already owned.
- ▶ 30:22 Miguel McKelvey So we looked in Manhattan a lot. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:34 Miguel McKelvey And first of all, I wouldn't complain about the fact that I get to live in Manhattan, and I live in a nice apartment, and I'm living, you know, I moved to an apartment with an awesome view, and that's a, you know, childhood dream to, like,…
Steve Madden: Steve Madden
- ▶ 39:57 Steve Madden Yeah, we have a factory in, uh, Long Island City, just outside the East River in Manhattan.
FUBU: Daymond John
- ▶ 12:46 Daymond John I went all uptown Manhattan.
Stitch Fix: Katrina Lake
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher
Burton Snowboards: Jake Carpenter
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp
- ▶ 9:46 Wendy Kopp So, you know, I think my timing was just perfect, and he said, I'll tell you what, I'll let you use our office in Manhattan, and I'll introduce you to some other folks.
Kickstarter: Perry Chen
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 1:03 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how two friends hustled their way into Manhattan real estate, and in just seven years, built a seventeen billion dollar office sharing company called WeWork.
- ▶ 9:46 Miguel McKelvey And so originally when I first went there, the project that they had was an American Apparel store, and it was in, you know, lower Manhattan.
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