Minneapolis, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 35Sean Sherman 8Monica Nassif 6Jane Barthel 4Glenn Auerbach 4John Gabbert 3Mei Xu 2Jerry Greenfield 2Gina Davis 2Breezy Griffith 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Minneapolis comes up
YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company.
- ▶ 20:13 unnamed speaker Actually, I wasn't that smart, but I mentioned the Kurzweil rep kept coming by and getting my sounds, and he would take them to the other dealers up in Chicago and Detroit and Minneapolis, and, and I kept telling about my relationship with…
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 2:02 Guy Raz And when John came back to Minneapolis, he couldn't stop thinking about this concept. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:28 John Gabbert If it sold well for us in Minneapolis, it may not sell for the rest of the country, and they would drop it, so you'd, you'd be starting over.
- ▶ 19:16 John Gabbert Um, so, uh, my, my dad's proposal as a solution was I would move to Dallas with my family and run the Dallas store, and my younger brother would step in and run the Minneapolis store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:22 Guy Raz And here you are, and not, and please don't take this the wrong way, but you grew up in, you know, the suburbs of Minneapolis in the fifties and sixties. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:52 Guy Raz And today, Gabbard still has two stores in the Minneapolis area.
Advice Line with Chieh Huang of Boxed
Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork
- ▶ 6:49 Jane Barthel I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I am the founder and owner of Copa Threads, a women's pants brand that features small batch, fun, comfy, beautifully constructed pants. 4 times in the scene
Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
- ▶ 39:18 Kurt Listug I mean, electric guitars come in a lot of different colors, and then the Prince guitar came about when I got a call from a salesperson named Glenn at a music store in Minneapolis, and they serviced Prince.
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyer's
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 33:54 Joan Barnes We were all over, um, suburban Detroit, suburban Minneapolis, um, Atlanta, Florida.
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- ▶ 50:33 Breezy Griffith So we flew out to Minneapolis, and we sat with this buyer, and we sampled our product, and we talked about our brand, shared our story, and then we went away, we went back home, and, uh, and the broker who was helping us at the time said, 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Troy Carter of Atom Factory
- ▶ 28:10 Gina Davis My name is Gina Davis, and I am calling in from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and our company is Good Thomas. 2 times in the scene
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 43:29 Josh Hochschuler Yes, finances were very, very tight, uh, and then the salesperson that we had knew of a friend in Minneapolis, and he helped us get a couple of chains in Minneapolis, and I knew that I couldn't just keep going into further debt, and I had…
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
- ▶ 1:54 Guy Raz Monica Nassif had just stepped away from her small creative marketing agency in Minneapolis.
- ▶ 9:29 Guy Raz And, um, he, I guess, was running a landscaping company, and the two of you decided to move to Minneapolis. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:46 Monica Nassif Yeah, so we were doing work for, uh, you know, Rainforest Cafe, Live Touch, Medtronic, mostly consumer brands, but other brands out of Minneapolis.
- ▶ 24:28 Monica Nassif Well, yeah, because Aveda is, Aveda is based in Minneapolis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:10 Monica Nassif A friend of mine, he gave me the church directory for his, well, affluent church in Minneapolis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:43 Guy Raz Get this produced, this co-packer, co-manufacturer in Minneapolis, where you were experimenting with this stuff, with, with the, with the product.
- ▶ 52:30 Monica Nassif I knew her from other projects in Minneapolis.
Advice Line with Katlin Smith of Simple Mills
- ▶ 6:24 Scott Vandenbroekie My name is Scott Vandenbroekie, and I'm calling from snowy Minneapolis.
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
- ▶ 14:47 Ken Doushmitz We are based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Thrive Market: Nick Green
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League
Michael Kors: Michael Kors
- ▶ 36:49 Michael Kors Oh, suddenly I was in Minneapolis, and I was in Nashville, and I was in New Orleans, and I was in Los Angeles, and I was, you know, I was traveling and...
HIBT Lab! The Sioux Chef: Sean Sherman
- ▶ 1:27 Guy Raz Under the Sous Chef brand, Sean's operated a food truck, he's done pop-up events around the country, he's published a cookbook, and opened a restaurant in Minneapolis.
- ▶ 6:29 Sean Sherman Yeah, I moved to Minneapolis to go to this really great art school that we have here, and I, uh, you know, realized I couldn't afford it, so when they showed me how much art school cost, I just realized that that wasn't gonna happen, and I…
- ▶ 6:51 Guy Raz And, and you really, because you had worked in restaurants through high school, now you're in your early twenties, end up working at a couple places in Minneapolis, and, and eventually you became the head chef at, at a tapas restaurant… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Guy Raz You went there, um, and you, you, you had a kid by that point, and you were married, and, um, tell me why you decided to, because you had this really promising career in, in Minneapolis, but it sounds like you just needed a change. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:28 Guy Raz So you end up coming back to Minneapolis, um, and I guess from what I understand, your plan was to open a restaurant right away.
- ▶ 18:27 Sean Sherman Yeah, well, the first, you know, business model that we kind of came up with was this food truck we created in Minneapolis called Tatanka truck. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:45 Sean Sherman Um, number one, we, uh, won an RFP, a request for proposal for a new, uh, park board building that was being built out alongside the Mississippi river, downtown Minneapolis early on, like right after the Kickstarter. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:13 Guy Raz All right, so July of 21, the restaurant opens in Minneapolis, and the restaurant is Awamni, and tell me about the opening of the restaurant. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:58 Sean Sherman We have very expensive rent, you know, we have a really high wages to pay, and we're in the highest tax bracket in Minnesota because of our location downtown Minneapolis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:41 Guy Raz All right, next time I'm in Minneapolis, I gotta go, I gotta go check it out.
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
- ▶ 1:44 Guy Raz In fact, Ryan's day job was as a clerk at a local record store outside Minneapolis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:38 Guy Raz This is the early nineties in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, obviously legendary music town, Prince Husker do the replacements, um, and, and, and, and others. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:49 unnamed speaker Would you ever go to newsstands in Minneapolis and like find, look for those?
- ▶ 33:38 Guy Raz Cause I think, you know, you were doing record store or telemarketing, but by 1999, you decide to move to Chicago to leave Minneapolis.
- ▶ 57:28 Ryan Schreiber Um, I remember when I was in Minneapolis, you know, Vice started out as a Montreal operation.
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
Famous Dave's: Dave Anderson
- ▶ 43:58 Guy Raz It's, like, gotta be, what, two hours from Minneapolis? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:52 Guy Raz Like, you opened that first location in, in 94, and then a second one in 95 in Minneapolis, and then by 96, you've got four restaurants, I think all of them in that region, but then with, with just four restaurants, you decide that year…
McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John
- ▶ 29:08 Andréa McBride John Um, the person at the time was a man by the name of Michael Byron, and I remember Robert and I flew into Minneapolis, that's where Super Value was based, I think it might have been like January or February.
Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
- ▶ 55:11 Michael Kirban You know, all of a sudden, you walk into a store in Minneapolis, or you walk into a store in Dallas, or wherever, and people are like, oh, yeah, yeah,
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield (2017)
- ▶ 33:22 Jerry Greenfield Well, it, it was started by me going to Minneapolis to the Pillsbury World Headquarters.
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017)
- ▶ 41:16 Glenn Auerbach My name is Glenn Auerbach, and I'm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I've created NiceMug. 2 times in the scene
Stitch Fix: Katrina Lake
- ▶ 3:19 Katrina Lake Probably 70% Asian, and then to go to a school in Minneapolis where I think there were three Asian people, um, and three and a half if you include me in my class, and we were a very bilingual, bicultural household, and so we, my mom.
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield
- ▶ 33:33 Jerry Greenfield Well, it, it was started by me going to Minneapolis to the Pillsbury World Headquarters.
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
Honest Tea: Seth Goldman
- ▶ 24:59 Glenn Auerbach My name is Glenn Auerbach, and I'm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I've created Nice Mug. 2 times in the scene
VICE: Suroosh Alvi
- ▶ 3:26 Suroosh Alvi I'd come from, you know, a small private school in Minneapolis where I went to high school, and going to McGill was just a different vibe.