OtterBox, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 39Curt Richardson 21Mike Sorrentino 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where OtterBox comes up
Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox
- ▶ 1:02 Guy Raz Joining me this week is OtterBox founder Kurt Richardson. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:54 Guy Raz Initially, OtterBox was known as the protective case. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:18 Guy Raz You're on with Kurt Richardson, founder of Otterbox.
- ▶ 15:44 Guy Raz He's the founder of Otterbox and Blue Ocean, and we are taking your calls, and let's bring in our next caller.
- ▶ 26:37 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking calls with OtterBox founder, Kurt Richardson. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:59 Guy Raz Um, that's Kurt Richardson, founder of Otterbox and Blue Ocean.
Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
- ▶ 1:03 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Kurt Richardson went from apprentice at a plastic molding workshop to building OtterBox, a company that today sells more than a billion dollars worth of mobile phone cases each year. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:03 Curt Richardson And so we started with just this very small 1000 series box.
- ▶ 20:22 Curt Richardson At that time, we were making otter boxes, and I was flying back and forth to China, building tools, bringing the molds back, manufacturing the parts here in the U.S., and it was just a struggle.
- ▶ 25:34 Guy Raz Now, Otter really began as a kind of a spin-off, a side project of another, one of these other kind of plastic injection 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:40 Guy Raz So, it's the mid-two thousands, and OtterBox is still a young brand, making bulky, waterproof cases for devices like PalmPilots and BlackBerrys. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:14 Curt Richardson So out of that came the Defender case. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:00 Guy Raz I mean, was OtterBox by that point, by 2007, when the iPhone came out, 2008, was it, um, did it, did you have, like, a pretty good market, like. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:49 Curt Richardson We, we've worked with border and with the border security and, and, and all the customs and help train them on showing what's a fraudulent OtterBox and, and actually we'd get, they, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:45 Curt Richardson I mean, a lot of, a lot of the, I don't want to ever knock anybody cause there, a lot of people had a lot of good things to do with Otter and growing Otter. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:28 Curt Richardson I mean, Otter's mission is we grow to give. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:43 Guy Raz By the way, the company's best-selling case is still The Defender, and Kurt says this year OtterBox will make thirty-nine million cases in total, or more than a 100,000 every single day. 2 times in the scene
FUBU: Daymond John (2018)
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Dippin' Dots: Curt Jones
Dyson: James Dyson (2018)
- ▶ 41:21 Mike Sorrentino I'm not one of these Otterbox or Speck or one of these major brand phone case companies who gets
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson
- ▶ 49:25 Mike Sorrentino Yeah, I'm not one of these OtterBox or Spec or one of these major brand phone case companies who gets the specs and the designs of these phones before they come out, so I've got to wait for the phone to come onto the market, then I've got…