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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mexico comes up
Advice Line with Daymond John of FUBU
- ▶ 10:42 Christopher Navarro Um, on my dad's side, my grandma, uh, she had a taqueria in Mexico and my dad growing up there. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit
- ▶ 2:36 Chris Riccobono One, the normal tariffs, but then also Trump removed in the middle of the night, this three, two, one de minimis rule, which you could ship from Mexico.
KIND bars: Daniel Lubetzky. From peace in the Middle East to a $5 billion snack bar
- ▶ 3:54 Guy Raz Daniel Lubecki was born in Mexico to a family of Eastern European immigrants. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Daniel Lubetzky He was born in Riga, Latvia, raised in Lithuania, and when he was nine years old, the World War II broke out, he ended up in a concentration camp, and after surviving, he was for six months in a refugee camp, and then ended up in, in… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:04 Guy Raz In Mexico, and we'll get to you moving to the U.S., but what was life like for you? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:27 Guy Raz I'm assuming because your dad was part of this business, this sort of duty-free business on the U.S.-Mexico border, he just continued to run that business.
- ▶ 16:42 Daniel Lubetzky And I was in Mexico watching the Rose Garden ceremony, and I'm like,
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
- ▶ 16:46 Matt O'Hayer I had general managers and sales managers from all the major hotels and, and, and the resorts in Mexico and throughout the Caribbean.
Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
- ▶ 51:27 Guy Raz Um, in 2002, you broke ground on a factory in Tecate in Mexico to increase capacity.
- ▶ 59:38 Bob Taylor But you are correct in that if somebody bought one of our full-size guitars that we make in, in our Tecate Mexico factory, that's really enough guitar to last them their whole entire life.
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 32:47 Joan Barnes Well, we had, we, um, in addition to the, um, U.S. franchisees, we had sold Mexico, France, and we'd done those as, um, master franchises.
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- ▶ 7:49 Travis Rosbach And I said, either Mexico or Hawaii, but I need to go somewhere warm
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- ▶ 4:42 Natalie Gordon I was really excited about traveling in Latin America, learning Spanish, um, and so, um, with my boyfriend at the time, um, in this trip that it was about a year and a half, we ended up living in three places in Havana, Cuba, Medellin,…
- ▶ 17:14 Natalie Gordon So we had a dog, we had adopted her in Mexico, Pasa, and it was like, if someone could walk her every morning, like, that's such a meaningful gift.
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
- ▶ 53:09 Jeff Braverman It comes from Mexico.
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft
- ▶ 2:56 Guy Raz Yeah, I'd just like to dive into that for a moment, because I think a lot of people assume, oh, wow, you know, you build this huge thing, and, you know, it's a huge brand, and then you get to do a victory lap, and then you can, like, go…
- ▶ 26:57 Guy Raz Um, but I wonder whether just, you know, to kind of hedge your bets, is it worth exploring, like, Mexico, for example, or even, I don't even know if they can be, I'm sure there's some U.S. manufacturing, prices will be higher, costs will… 2 times in the scene
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- ▶ 26:19 Guy Raz I really trusted her and, and, and found something in her, um, that not just in terms of your interpersonal relationship, but like in terms of her instincts, because I think like six months in your relationship, you leave town, you go to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:39 Guy Raz This guy goes to Mexico and says, run my business, and, and, and, ah, you know, and here you are now, you know, 20, almost 25 years later.
Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
- ▶ 39:49 Stephanie Stuckey Everything was outsourced, and the pecans came from Mexico, and pecans are the only snack nut native to this country.
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
- ▶ 58:08 Rick Steves I kind of like this idea of, in Mexico, there's a volcano that just appears, you know, just a little mountain grows out of the desert, and then it grows bigger and bigger, and all of a sudden, it's a mountain.
Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie
- ▶ 8:45 Victor Garcia The flavors of Mexico, right, and our churn process is very slow.
Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
- ▶ 0:11 Paul Hedrick So much so that actually when we launched, I actually flew to Mexico.
- ▶ 19:09 Paul Hedrick I eventually found out everything was made in León, Mexico. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:26 Guy Raz So, it's late, 2014, and Paul is trying to place an order with a factory in Leon, Mexico, to make his cowboy boots.
- ▶ 39:57 Paul Hedrick We were really the first brand to kind of tell the story of, of Mexico and, and Leon in particular. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:24 Paul Hedrick So much so that actually when we launched, I actually flew to Mexico.
- ▶ 49:17 Paul Hedrick And then I, on the other, while he was managing the spend, I was going down to Mexico every month, and I mean, I was negotiating all the way down to the time frame, so I would say, alright, this is the date that we're, we're gonna commit…
Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
- ▶ 3:29 RJ Scaringe In terms of our supplier base in Canada and Mexico.
Advice Line with Travis Boersma of Dutch Bros
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
- ▶ 52:50 Michelle Wahler And so we, Jesse and I, we decided we were going to go to Mexico, which is Cabo, which is like our favorite spot.
Advice Line with Angie Hicks of Angi
- ▶ 33:48 unnamed speaker So I actually learned Spanish through an immersion program in Oaxaca, Mexico, and I did that program right after college, and I had the amazing opportunity when I was there to start teaching ESL, English as a Second Language, and I fell in…
21 Seeds: Kat Hantas
- ▶ 0:38 Kat Hantas We go down to Mexico to do our first production run, and when we went to do that at scale, it just, it didn't work.
- ▶ 4:30 Guy Raz 50 states with 50 different regulations, challenges finding a distributor, and of course, tequila must be produced in one of five states in Mexico. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:48 Guy Raz Presumably gotta go to Mexico because it's like champagne, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:00 Kat Hantas Because we'd never tried it before, so when we took our, we go down to Mexico to do our first production run using, you know, the instructions that we have come up with, and when we went to do that at scale, it just, it didn't work, and it…
Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin
- ▶ 20:12 Ben Weprin Lucas, Mexico.
Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
Advice Line with Sarah Kauss of S'well
3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
- ▶ 0:48 Guy Raz Fast forward to today, and the company has built dozens of these houses in Texas and in Mexico, with hundreds more in the planning stages.
- ▶ 12:04 Jason Ballard And, and if you guys can actually print a house, then we, we have a project for you in Mexico.
- ▶ 19:27 Guy Raz I guess they wanted to build inexpensive, resilient homes in a poor part of Mexico. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:25 Guy Raz I mean, let's talk about this project in, in Mexico, in, in Tabasco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 Guy Raz All right, so it's twenty-nineteen, and, and you guys have successfully built a community of these three-deep, uh, printed studio homes in Mexico, um, and I guess now you're, you're starting to sort of get 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:03 Guy Raz I mean, um, I imagine that there are lots of organizations and groups like the one, like the one you worked with, um, in Mexico that have approached you and have said, look, can we do this?
Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX
Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Literally unearthing a climate solution with Cody Finke of Brimstone
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
Jack Black Skin Care: Curran and Jeff Dandurand
- ▶ 8:24 Curran Dandurand And then he lied, and he said, I want a trip to Mexico, and I'd like to take you with me. 2 times in the scene
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
- ▶ 36:51 Steven Udvar-Hazy And one of them was Aeromexico, which was the government airline of Mexico, and they needed a DC-Aid. 3 times in the scene
When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable
- ▶ 0:52 Ramses Alcaide I came from Mexico. 4 times in the scene
Dutch Bros. Coffee: Travis Boersma
Manduka: Peter Sterios
- ▶ 26:10 Peter Sterios I basically organized his calendars in North America, including Canada and Mexico every year that he would come, and he'd be in the States for two months usually, a month on the road, and then three weeks at my studio teaching intensives.
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix
- ▶ 3:47 Guy Raz And after reading the book Born to Run, he was inspired to make his own rubber running sandals, the kind of sandals worn by indigenous tribes in the mountains of Mexico.
- ▶ 29:29 Guy Raz Yeah, I, I want to just interject for a sec, because in, in the event that someone listening does not know about Born to Run, I'm just going to briefly summarize it, which is, it's a book written by Christopher McDougall, massive…
HIBT Lab! Biobot Analytics: Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli
- ▶ 34:53 Mariana Matus Um, just to give you one data point there, Mexico, where I'm from originally, discharges a lot of the wastewater, um,
HIBT Lab! The Sioux Chef: Sean Sherman
- ▶ 8:45 Sean Sherman There was definitely, like, nighty hour weeks and things like that, and, uh, I just got to a point where that was just too much, so I just, uh, packed up a bag and grabbed a guitar and headed down to Mexico.
- ▶ 9:18 Sean Sherman I wasn't sure what I wanted to do next, and, uh, so I took that break and moved down to Mexico. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:54 Sean Sherman And it just, everything tastes like where we are, you know, and we do feature some dishes that might taste like the Southwest or the Pacific Northwest or someplace in Mexico or way up in Alaska, but we just really try to be regionally…
HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo
- ▶ 0:46 Guy Raz Beatriz was born and raised mainly in Mexico, and she got her start as a kid, co-hosting a show on her local radio station in Mexico City.
- ▶ 4:16 Beatriz Acevedo Um, so they were the first Emmys that Mexico won, I guess, as a country.
HIBT Lab! Tala: Shivani Siroya
HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz
- ▶ 25:11 Shimon Elkabetz You go south of the border to Mexico, believe it or not, it's pretty challenging to understand what's happening in real time.
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
- ▶ 8:42 Arran Stephens And so I borrowed some of the best recipes from India, from Mexico, from China.
- ▶ 22:42 Arran Stephens You know, I mean, outside there was this, this notice board for people who wanted to go down to Mexico or California or whatever.
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
How I Built Resilience: Bayard Winthrop of American Giant
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves
- ▶ 58:39 Rick Steves Um, you got, I always think, I kind of like this idea of, in Mexico there's a volcano that just appears, you know, just a little mountain grows out of the desert, and then it grows bigger and bigger, and all of a sudden it's a mountain.
How I Built Resilience: Elisa Villanueva Beard of Teach For America
- ▶ 0:54 Elisa Villanueva Beard I grew up in South Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, right on the Texas-Mexico border. 2 times in the scene
Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 1:04:30 Casey Neistat Welcome to Mexico to the Falls Institute.
Dave's Killer Bread: Dave Dahl
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)
- ▶ 56:04 Alex Vandewark I was calling people in China and Mexico, trying to just see, like, okay, who could make this? 2 times in the scene
Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade (2017)
- ▶ 9:22 Kate Spade I bought it at a vintage store, or it's a straw bag I got in Mexico.
Framebridge: Susan Tynan
- ▶ 55:10 Alex Vandewark I was calling people in China and Mexico, trying to just see like, okay, who can make this? 2 times in the scene
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
- ▶ 8:04 Kevin Systrom So my now wife and I, Nicole, went to Mexico. 3 times in the scene
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal
Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade
- ▶ 9:22 Kate Spade I bought it at a vintage store, or it's a straw bag I got in Mexico.
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
- ▶ 7:33 Kevin Systrom So my now wife and I, Nicole, went to Mexico, and we were working on, uh, this idea of photos, so Mike was like, alright, I'm gonna prototype this thing while you're on break, you come back, and then we'll, like, reconvene. 3 times in the scene