Ooni, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 33Darina Garland 12Kristian Tapaninaho 5Anderson (Andy) Camp 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Ooni comes up
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
Advice Line with Holly Thaggard of Supergoop!
- ▶ 21:43 Anderson (Andy) Camp So we actually took a tip from how I built this, uh, in your episode with Christian, uh, from Uni. 2 times in the scene
CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman
- ▶ 28:51 unnamed speaker I love the story of uni pizza ovens.
Priority Bicycles: Dave Weiner
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho
- ▶ 1:00 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Christian Tapanenaho built a portable wood-fired pizza oven, financed it on Kickstarter, and along with his wife, grew Uni into a two hundred million dollar a year brand.
- ▶ 3:21 Guy Raz At the time, it was called the Ooni Pizza Oven, spelled U-U-N-I. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Darina Garland Yes, and, um, it's still going, and I think that it's, it's very different from uni today in the sense that the majority or almost everything was based around our time, and we did projects for NESTA, so the National Endowment for Science,…
- ▶ 23:11 Kristian Tapaninaho So the original uni had this little fan at the back of it that blew air through this kind of column of wood pellets that would just gravity feed into the system, and then you'd light them up, and you'd get this intense flame that then flew…
- ▶ 26:57 Kristian Tapaninaho That's right, and that's, that's really the, the next maybe six, seven months are probably the kind of, when I even think about this period of time in the Uni's history, it just gets my palms sweaty, because it's quite, quite risky.
- ▶ 29:26 Guy Raz It's the first uni video.
- ▶ 35:20 Kristian Tapaninaho Um, and this has a bit of a funny kind of reason why there's three legs on an uni.
- ▶ 41:14 Guy Raz It was the, I guess it was called the Ooni two.
- ▶ 41:17 Guy Raz And, and you also decide to make an accessory called the Ooni stack. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:18 Kristian Tapaninaho So by this stage, I'd moved manufacturing for Uni itself as well to Southeast China.
- ▶ 44:37 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Christian and Darina start learning how to grow uni gracefully until the pandemic hits.
- ▶ 45:08 Guy Raz So, it's around 2015, and Uni is going through a lot of changes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:55 Darina Garland It was just about, do you know about uni? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:36 Kristian Tapaninaho Options and share schemes for some of the exec team, and then few friends and family investors from the very, very early days of uni.
- ▶ 51:51 Guy Raz It's unbelievable, and I think that's the key to, to the growth of Unis is, like, you're making pizzas, and usually you have people over, and they're like, this thing is amazing, and they're like, how does this work, and you're like, yeah,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:15 Guy Raz Um, I think it was in 2018 that you changed the name from Uni, U-U-N-I, to Uni, O-O-N-I. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:10 Darina Garland There might be a few kind of exclusive people that would have, you know, high-end, 5000 dollars or plus installation in their back garden, but even then, they're very different because they take hours to heat up for beautiful… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:11 Darina Garland Um, there was lots of reasons that we were able to jump on it, though we had invested heavily in our digital marketing team, so in lots of ways we were kind of ready to share the news about Uni, as well as so much of it being about word of… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:58 Guy Raz You've got, I mean, just going on Amazon now, you see brands that, you know, are clearly, let's, I'm just going to be charitable, inspired by the design of Ooni.
- ▶ 1:08:11 Guy Raz That's Darina Garland and Christian Tapaninaho, co-founders of Uni.