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Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire Jun 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:12 Maxine Clark And then he introduced me to the people that could make the fixtures, who used to make fixtures for theme parks and for Mattel and all kinds of people.

Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:09 John Osher And I bought this thing thinking that if I'm ever going to sell this company, I'm going to need a category that Hasbro or Mattel or one of these companies need because they buy categories.

Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever Dec 22, 2025 · 1 mention

Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire. Sep 8, 2025 · 1 mention

MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian Mar 25, 2024 · 41 mentions

  • ▶ 4:22 Guy Raz And so this story is, of course, about how he did it, and how a nearly decade-long legal battle with Mattel almost killed him.
  • ▶ 31:11 Guy Raz But I think around 96, um, this guy named Joe Truchus, I think is the name, he came to you with a doll that he had created, and he had pitched to Battelle, but they didn't want it, and it was a basically a doll that bounced, and when you… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:05 Isaac Larian And he said, he works at Mattel. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:40 Isaac Larian Who worked for me, who used to work at Mattel before, and he told me, anybody who has taken on Barbie has gone out of business and gone bankrupt.
  • ▶ 52:35 Guy Raz So the maker of Barbie, Mattel, starts to investigate. 15 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:06 Guy Raz There have been articles, books, there have been documentaries about this, this war between Mattel and MGA. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:02:53 Guy Raz You were, Mattel was originally ordered to pay over three hundred million dollars in damages, and then it was, it was, it was a long time of fighting against each other. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:39 Guy Raz I mean, you are as big, if not bigger, than Mattel. 3 times in the scene

Spin Master/PAW Patrol: Ronnen Harary Dec 20, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 24:32 Guy Raz That, like, Hasbro and Mattel wouldn't even, wouldn't even look at.
  • ▶ 40:28 Guy Raz And I guess you were competing as a, like a Mattel product that something that the Mattel was putting out. 5 times in the scene
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