Oregon, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 48Miguel McKelvey 3Emily Powell 3Becca Milstein 3Travis Rosbach 2Robbie Schingler 2Rick Steves 2Ken Grossman 2Katherine Kirbis 2Carlos Araque 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Oregon comes up
YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
- ▶ 1:09:42 Roy Seiders And that is when we started getting phone calls from, you know, Pennsylvania, and Oregon, and Montana, and, and these were retailers calling us up and saying, hey, I've had three customers over the last two weeks come in and ask for your…
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
- ▶ 2:49 Guy Raz Kettle Chips was based in Oregon, but the inspiration came from a trip Cameron took to Hawaii. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:24 Guy Raz You get there in 1973 to Salem, Oregon, and you and your wife, who are sort of a young white family, but you're wearing turbans 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:39 Cameron Healy Well, if this guy can make such a splash and be in the Wall Street Journal and have this kind of cult following, and he's, he's bringing his potatoes all the way from Oregon, and I'm based in Oregon, I can do this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Guy Raz And after that meeting, he's convinced that making potato chips in Oregon is the best way to grow his business. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:10 Guy Raz Ok, that I understand, but this is, here's where, what I don't understand, and I say this because this is going to be pivotal to your business, but, in 1987, you are a tiny regional brand in Oregon and Washington State.
- ▶ 45:07 Guy Raz Going to start at this moment, and you are from Oregon. 3 times in the scene
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- ▶ 30:15 Breezy Griffith We found someone in Oregon, a family operation.
Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- ▶ 31:56 Travis Rosbach And Bend has kind of been an outdoor Mecca for Oregon for quite a while.
- ▶ 37:02 Travis Rosbach Which was a bit of a benefit being in Oregon, because we do have a lot of environmentally friendly folks here in the state, but we gave a lifetime warranty and said that if anything happens, we'll take care of it.
- ▶ 39:31 Guy Raz Just, like, around in, in Oregon, mainly? 3 times in the scene
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
- ▶ 42:27 Rick Steves Yeah, when you, when you make a TV show for public television, you need a station to be your presenting station, and Seattle opted out for some reason, so Oregon took it up, and, uh, Oregon Public Broadcasting, OPB, all over the country…
Advice Line with Perry Chen of Kickstarter
- ▶ 18:37 Katherine Kirbis We were living and working in Costa Rica at a retreat center, and he was making a lot of sauces from scratch with peppers and vegetables out of the garden, and then we moved back to Oregon to kind of get real jobs again, and, um, 2 times in the scene
Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
Advice Line: Scaling Strategies
Advice Line with Travis Boersma of Dutch Bros
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Marc Lore
- ▶ 8:55 Ben Bailey Um, started two e-commerce companies in New York City, very small exits, took a little bit of time to get away from New York City and back to Oregon, my hometown, and growing up in a small conservative farming community, I
Noosa Yoghurt: Koel Thomae
What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 2
What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 1
- ▶ 22:35 Becca Milstein You know, people that lived in coastal California, people that lived in Oregon, people that were from Alaska that I knew. 3 times in the scene
Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
Banana Republic: Mel and Patricia Ziegler
- ▶ 6:35 Patricia Ziegler And, um, so that became my income for the next couple of years as I traded French pants, um, for rides to Idaho, Oregon.
nutpods: Madeline Haydon
- ▶ 21:58 Madeline Haydon They're just here in Oregon.
Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
- ▶ 19:26 Valerie Franklin My name is Valerie Franklin, and I'm representing Artisans Cooperative, and I'm calling in from the beautiful North Oregon coast.
Dutch Bros. Coffee: Travis Boersma
- ▶ 2:36 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two brothers sold espresso drinks out of a pushcart in Grants Pass, Oregon, and built Dutch Bros into a billion-dollar business with over 700 stores. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:13 Travis Boersma Locations of Dutch Bros within the state of Oregon, and the 11 western United States have locations.
- ▶ 1:14:40 Guy Raz Travis, when you think about this journey and, and where do you, you got to, I mean, this is the biggest IPO in the history of any Oregon company, which includes Nike, which is the biggest apparel brand in the world.
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
- ▶ 26:54 Nelson Gonzalez There's gonna be, you know, maybe I'll have a customer or two out there, you know, maybe in Oregon or in Washington State or New York or somewhere, you know, playing on one of my computers a video game that that person's gonna love.
Roku: Anthony Wood
- ▶ 28:35 Anthony Wood We had a vacation house in Oregon.
HIBT Lab! SOURCE Global: Cody Friesen
- ▶ 30:59 Cody Friesen Now, when we think about these large arrays, like we did with the Navajo or we did with Warm Springs tribe in Oregon, the real cost actually gets way lower, right?
HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
- ▶ 28:42 Carlos Araque Uh, Oregon is one of the key sites for us. 2 times in the scene
Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
- ▶ 19:57 Guy Raz Um, alright, so you end up, ah, back in, in Oregon, in 1976, and you're flipping through your book of ideas, and you decide the most viable idea, the one you want to pursue, is this, this knife tool.
- ▶ 50:21 Tim Leatherman Yes, uh, we do all the assembly ourselves, and the vast majority of the manufacturing ourselves in our own factory in Portland, Oregon.
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
- ▶ 0:35 Robbie Schingler The first image that we got was a forested region in Oregon.
- ▶ 41:29 Robbie Schingler That we got was a forested region in Oregon.
- ▶ 42:12 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how that one photo of a forest in Oregon led to many millions more.
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott (2019)
- ▶ 3:33 Guy Raz Back in the early 19 eighties, Seth was a committed vegetarian living in Oregon, making and marketing a food that hardly anyone had heard of at the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:35 Guy Raz You, I guess, end up going back to Oregon after the summer in Tennessee, and you kept making tempeh, right?
- ▶ 15:18 Seth Tibbott So at December one, 1980, I sent in my stamped envelope to the state of Oregon and registered Turtle Island Soy Dairy.
- ▶ 28:40 Guy Raz Um, eventually, I guess, I guess around 92, you made your way to Hood River, here in Oregon, um, where your plant is still today.
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves
- ▶ 41:48 Rick Steves Yeah, when you, when you make a TV show for public television, you need a station to be your presenting station, and Seattle opted out for some reason, so Oregon took it up, and, uh, Oregon Public Broadcasting, OPB, all over the country…
How I Built Resilience: Emily Powell of Powell's Books
- ▶ 2:54 Emily Powell Well, ah, it's easy to forget at this point in the year that Oregon actually had one of the first cases in the United States, so we were tracking the virus pretty early, I remember being 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:23 Emily Powell So substantial portion of our business is still in person, very tourism dependent at this point in Oregon's history.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Sadie Lincoln
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Ken Grossman
- ▶ 28:52 Ken Grossman Taking my 57 Chevy and driving up and down the Sacramento Valley, uh, up into Oregon and Washington and, um, looking for old pumps and pipe and tanks and, and things that we could scrounge for basically pennies on the dollar to use to…
- ▶ 41:39 Ken Grossman And the alpha acids, the bitter acids, and those aromatic oils are geographic in some cases, so a variety that's growing in Oregon may be different, uh, same variety than it, it tastes in Yakima or Idaho, or if it's growing in France or in…
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 1:00:16 Casey Neistat And I was like, free trip to Oregon?
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott
- ▶ 2:51 Guy Raz Back in the early 19 eighties, Seth was a committed vegetarian living in Oregon, making and marketing a food that hardly anyone had heard of at the time, tempeh. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 Guy Raz You, I guess, end up going back to Oregon after the summer in Tennessee, and you kept making tempeh, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:44 Guy Raz Um, eventually, I guess, I guess around 92, you made your way to Hood River, here in Oregon, um, where your plant is still today.
Barre3: Sadie Lincoln (2017)
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
- ▶ 15:02 Miguel McKelvey So first of all, I'm coming from Oregon.
- ▶ 44:55 Guy Raz It's very interesting seeing you talk about this with confidence in a very sort of clear way, and you, and I'm also seeing you as this kid in this commune in Oregon,
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken
- ▶ 9:49 Lara Merriken Yes, so there's a school in Seattle, Washington, and one in Portland, Oregon, and naturopathic medicine, and I thought, I'm gonna practice that, which covers all natural medicine, nutrition, acupuncture, everything, and that's what I…
Barre3: Sadie Lincoln
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 3:48 Guy Raz Did it, did it feel different when you were a kid, or was it just, like, that's Eugene, Oregon, and it's kind of, there's, like, a vibe here, and it's this.
- ▶ 13:40 Miguel McKelvey So first of all, I'm coming from Oregon.
- ▶ 35:44 Miguel McKelvey So to me, he still has an Oregonian a little bit.
- ▶ 43:43 Guy Raz And I'm also seeing you as this kid in this commune in Oregon, and I'm trying to square that circle.