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Catalina Crunch: Krishna Kaliannan. From Homemade Keto Cocoa Puffs to Breakfast Aisle Breakthrough
- ▶ 4:05 Guy Raz It's 2009 and you are, you're in Philadelphia visiting Penn.
- ▶ 8:25 Krishna Kaliannan Um, one of the reasons I actually went to Penn was when I was visiting a friend there, I noticed all the great food trucks in Philadelphia, and so I was very excited about all the different options for, for eating on campus.
STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
- ▶ 3:39 Guy Raz Stephen Starr grew up in the mid-nineteen fifties and sixties in New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:52 Guy Raz But I guess, from what I gather, in 1977, right, so you are roughly 21 years old, um, you open a diner and a comedy club in Philadelphia called Grandma Minnie's. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:03 Stephen Starr At Second and Bainbridge Streets in Philadelphia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Guy Raz Also in Center City in Philadelphia? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:13 Stephen Starr And then I said, this is something, I gotta try and do something like this in Philly.
- ▶ 36:00 Guy Raz He's inspired by a martini bar he visits in New York City, and he starts looking for a location in Philadelphia to do his own version. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:24 Stephen Starr But it was in a weird neighborhood in Philly, had no parking, and, uh, it didn't work out. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:00 Guy Raz You then open Budokan, also in Philadelphia, which, describe it for people, I've been there, but describe it for people who don't know what this restaurant is. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:11 Guy Raz So it's the late 19 nineties, and Stephen has another hit with Budokan in Philadelphia, and he's realizing just how great that city is as a launch pad for new restaurants. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
- ▶ 19:32 Rachel Kane I'm calling from the greater Philadelphia area.
KIND bars: Daniel Lubetzky. From peace in the Middle East to a $5 billion snack bar
- ▶ 27:45 Daniel Lubetzky So then now I can go open Philadelphia.
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
- ▶ 28:26 John Rarick I'm calling from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but I spend most of my time in Abruzzo, Italy, where I'm the owner of Cantina di Rosina, an organic vineyard and winery in southern Abruzzo. 2 times in the scene
Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- ▶ 3:51 Guy Raz Aaron Krauss grew up in the 19 seventies and eighties in the suburb of Philadelphia.
- ▶ 21:51 Aaron Krause But very quickly, um, some of the distributors started calling us, and there's a local company in Philadelphia that's a manufacturer of car washing and detailing chemicals called Ardex, and I knew them really well, because they brought me…
- ▶ 58:13 Aaron Krause It's a local, it's a small chain, maybe 250 grocery stores in the Philadelphia region. 3 times in the scene
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- ▶ 1:36 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two part-time baristas in Seattle became best friends, moved to Philadelphia, and went on to pioneer the specialty coffee movement in the U.S. by founding La Cologne Coffee Roasters. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Guy Raz I mean, it would make total perfect business sense to open up in Seattle at that point, but instead you start, you start looking at cities on the East Coast and you end up in Philadelphia, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:51 Guy Raz On Rittenhouse Square, which is probably the most famous place in Philadelphia today, one of them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:14 Guy Raz Also in Philadelphia.
- ▶ 37:57 Todd Carmichael When we arrived in Philly, coffee wholesale to restaurants was at about a dollar 50 a pound, and ours was the mid-sevens.
- ▶ 39:55 Guy Raz So, it's 1994 in Philadelphia, and Todd and JP are selling wholesale specialty coffee to more and more high-end restaurants.
- ▶ 43:57 Todd Carmichael The real key is, how do you get all these boxes from, let's say, a mountain in Rwanda to Philly?
- ▶ 51:11 Guy Raz You decide, 13 years after you open your first location off Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, to open a new location outside of Philadelphia for the first time, because I think at that point you had like two locations in Philadelphia,… 3 times in the scene
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
Advice Line: Tapping AI as a Resource for Your Business
- ▶ 2:08 Shireen Qadri We are a family owned and operated business based in Philly.
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 48:14 Vijen Patel Yeah, so in 2016, we were in Philly and I believe we were just getting going on Dallas.
- ▶ 51:07 Guy Raz And I'm wondering, and as you're sort of expanding, you're going to move into Philadelphia, and you know, you're in D.C. and Nashville.
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
- ▶ 34:29 Sabrina Nass I'm the founder of House of Biscotti based in Philadelphia, PA.
Advice Line with Peter Rahal of RXBAR
Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
- ▶ 15:07 Guy Raz So you have the successful first pilot in Philly, and then you move to San Francisco to try and establish the school there, or to sort of be headquartered there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:00 Abhi Ramesh Um, and then I think the most pivotal moment for me, um, I actually ended up moving from San Francisco to Philadelphia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:26 Abhi Ramesh And so the first thing I did when I got back home to Philly is I
- ▶ 27:04 Guy Raz So it's August of 2018, and Abhi is pretty sure he can buy all of the ugly produce he can handle at a big discount from farmers around Philadelphia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:48 Abhi Ramesh Um, and so he actually came down to Philly for the first few months of the founding of Misfits and actually helped me. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:49 Abhi Ramesh Yeah, I would do, um, seven days, seven days on, seven days off routine, so I'd do a week at the facilities, then out of quarantine for seven days, uh, then, uh, visit her, her family, uh, was amazing, and actually, like, moved down,…
- ▶ 1:04:15 Guy Raz By the way, remember back at the beginning when Abhi went to that orchard near Philadelphia and saw all those unwanted apples?
Advice Line with Travis Boersma of Dutch Bros
- ▶ 19:14 Trenton Yoder So, um, the closest, I guess, major area to us would be State College, so the home of Penn State University, but it's, uh, about three hours to Pittsburgh and about three hours to Philadelphia. 3 times in the scene
Fanatics: Michael Rubin
- ▶ 2:25 Guy Raz By 15, he had a brick and mortar ski shop on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
- ▶ 4:36 Guy Raz For now, what you need to know is that Michael grew up in a Philadelphia suburb in the seventies and eighties, and back then, he had trouble doing the things that came naturally to other kids, like reading.
- ▶ 8:43 Guy Raz And so, you're in Philadelphia, or outside Philadelphia, and you opened, you opened a ski tuning service, but I guess, uh, after your bar mitzvah, you made a little bit of cash, and you were able to use that cash to actually open a, a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:33 Guy Raz A Philly sports fan.
Lily’s Sweets: Cynthia Tice
- ▶ 4:27 Guy Raz Cynthia Tice grew up in the 19 fifties and sixties in and around Philadelphia and went to Temple University.
- ▶ 6:14 Guy Raz You're in Philadelphia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Cynthia Tice And he helped me find a location, which at that point was on South Street in Philadelphia.
- ▶ 43:23 Guy Raz Again, in 2012, when you launched this, because I think it's March of 2012, I'm thinking, I go back to the story you told about that meeting of grocers in, you know, in, in, in Philadelphia in 2000, where they're like,
- ▶ 1:00:35 Guy Raz You didn't move to Boulder, you stayed in Philly. 2 times in the scene
Insomnia Cookies: Seth Berkowitz
- ▶ 6:23 Seth Berkowitz To the Wawa to get, like, any tasty cakes of Philly special, and I'd get, uh,
- ▶ 19:38 Guy Raz It's different, but, so you expand beyond Penn, like now you're going to other campuses, colleges in the Philly, in Philadelphia? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:55 Guy Raz To open one store in Philadelphia? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Seth Berkowitz We were driving down to Philly frequently, and then passed it to College Park, Maryland.
- ▶ 1:04:22 Seth Berkowitz We have an annual summit, which actually we're going to have next, next week in Philly.
Advice Line with Holly Thaggard of Supergoop!
- ▶ 17:31 Anderson (Andy) Camp I'm calling from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Joe Kudla of Vuori
- ▶ 19:44 Brendan McEvoy Um, and we met some boutiques there and we've had good success with them from Philadelphia, Boston, New York.
Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
- ▶ 6:33 Guy Raz Uh, with an engineering degree, and, and, and I read that at that point you moved to, to Philadelphia, and I guess you start rowing with a pretty famous rowing club there called the, the Vespa Rowing Club? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:18 Guy Raz Um, Pete, this is something I'm curious about, because you hated rowing when you first tried it in 1972 or something, or, you know, when you first tried it in Philadelphia, you didn't like it.
Whole30: Melissa Urban
- ▶ 40:30 Melissa Urban There was a seminar we did at a CrossFit gym in Philadelphia one year, and I said to Dallas, there are a lot of people our parents age here, and that was unusual, almost always.
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- ▶ 14:30 Mike Cessario He was a creative advertising agency owner in Philadelphia named Steve, Steve Grass, and he had this agency called Quaker City Mercantile, and they actually helped create and launch two of the most successful 4 times in the scene
Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
- ▶ 27:17 Kyle Clark It's a radial network where if I ship something from Vermont to Buffalo, New York, it'll go from Burlington to Manchester, New Hampshire, to Philadelphia, down to Louisville at the hub, get sorted along with another five to eight million…
Orgain: Andrew Abraham
Tory Burch: Tory Burch
- ▶ 4:21 Guy Raz Tori Birch grew up in a sprawling, 200 and fifty-year-old farmhouse about 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia.
- ▶ 15:44 Tory Burch Incredible entrepreneur, and still is, um, and he built this company called Eagle's Eye with his brother, and it was a very big company for Philadelphia.
- ▶ 18:47 Tory Burch It was, you know, it was also right at the time when I was moving down to Philadelphia, my dad wasn't a hundred percent well, and
- ▶ 51:58 Tory Burch Like, there are, both of our families are from, from Philadelphia.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League
- ▶ 56:20 Tim League It's, it's very wasteful, I'm sorry, but it was such a cool thing, and it dripped a lot on the steps, and I apologize to the city of Philadelphia.
HIBT Lab! The Confess Project: Lorenzo Lewis
- ▶ 22:14 Lorenzo Lewis One piece is we had a barber in Philadelphia that, you know, had a client sit in his chair and said, Hey,
Bluemercury: Marla and Barry Beck
- ▶ 7:38 Barry Beck You know, I remember going back to Philadelphia after the meeting, and I actually mentioned to one of my, to one of our company lawyers, I think, I met the girl I'm gonna marry.
- ▶ 43:42 Barry Beck Well, we, well, I guess at one point, he has a funny point, is that we opened up our fourth store, I guess this is fast forward to Philadelphia, and one of my friends from high school was near my high school in Philadelphia, and he said,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:06 Marla Beck Philadelphia. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:34 Barry Beck How exclusive they are, how many street corners, how many points of distribution they have in Philadelphia.
- ▶ 57:14 Marla Beck We like downtown Philadelphia.
Noom: Saeju Jeong
- ▶ 12:44 Saeju Jeong I was listening to, like, death metal from, like, Philadelphia.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
- ▶ 31:58 Sam Calagione And, uh, I also knew that beautiful coastal Delaware is, you know, pretty much two hours from DC, Baltimore, Philly, three and a half from Manhattan, so it'd actually be like an ideal hub to eventually distribute beer to major metro…
- ▶ 43:46 Sam Calagione I knew that if I could start distributing the, the beers to cities like DC, Baltimore, Philly, Manhattan, and I could get the Washington Post to write about a beer made with raisins, or the Philly Inquirer to write about a beer made with… 3 times in the scene
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
- ▶ 47:02 Ryan Schreiber I actually offered one of my brighter friends from Philadelphia who had wanted to move to Chicago.
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 22:07 Chris Zarou I, I was managing an artist, a rapper, out of Philly at the time, and this was, it was very early days of, of Twitter, you know, and I probably at the time followed 25, 30 people, and I was sitting in front of my computer, and his DJ, the,… 2 times in the scene
Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
- ▶ 1:00:12 Jennifer Martin Like, Philly and Boston and Chicago and all those things, and I think that was really
How I Built Resilience: Troy Carter of Q&A (June, 2020)
- ▶ 10:51 Troy Carter I grew up in Philadelphia.
How I Built Resilience: M. Night Shyamalan
- ▶ 0:38 Guy Raz Before he became a blockbuster film director, producer, and writer, Knight grew up outside Philadelphia, where, as his fans know, many of his stories take place.
- ▶ 12:17 M. Night Shyamalan You know, you're an Indian kid from Philly.
- ▶ 22:02 Guy Raz And I read a speech that you gave at Drexel University in Philly in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, where you talked about a series of setbacks you had in, in, in, and you said, I found myself questioning myself and every thought that…
- ▶ 31:22 M. Night Shyamalan That one was in Philly.
- ▶ 33:29 M. Night Shyamalan So the fact that I am, was born in Pondicherry, India and live outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, you know, and I,
How I Built Resilience: Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement
- ▶ 4:54 Varshini Prakash Two months later, we brought together 20 of the top leaders that we had worked with in the climate movement up until that point to Pennsylvania, to Philly, where we trained them in the basic sort of theory of change, the strategy,
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti
- ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two part-time baristas in Seattle became best friends, moved to Philadelphia, and went on to pioneer the specialty coffee movement in the US by founding La Cologne Coffee Roasters. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:04 Guy Raz I mean, it would make total perfect business sense to open up in Seattle at that point, but instead you start, you start looking at cities on the East Coast and you end up in Philadelphia. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:23 Guy Raz On Rittenhouse Square, which is probably the most famous place in Philadelphia today, one of them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:46 Guy Raz Also in Philadelphia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:24 Guy Raz So, it's 1994 in Philadelphia, and Todd and JP are selling wholesale specialty coffee to more and more high-end restaurants. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:40 Guy Raz You decide, 13 years after you open your first location off Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, to open a new location outside of Philadelphia for the first time, because I think at that point you had like two locations in Philadelphia… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:06 Todd Carmichael Now, a great majority of them are in New York and Philadelphia, and they come from places that are not New York.
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 29:29 Jamie Siminoff Like, out of college kids, like, like, literally, I, but, employee number one, John Modestine, lived in Philadelphia, never, we always joke, never got west of the Mississippi, I literally flew the kid out here, and, uh, he, I bought him a…
How I Built Resilience: Live with Troy Carter
- ▶ 10:40 Troy Carter I grew up in Philadelphia, so you would have never, and then we went to Ohio after, and on stage, it was a Confederate flag right behind the stage, and Charlie Puth,
Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman
Live From The HIBT Summit: Troy Carter
- ▶ 10:37 Troy Carter So, it's like, so for me, I think it's that appreciation of, wow, I can't believe this is my life, and I was laughing with Kevin Hart, and Kevin's from Philly, and we were having a conversation, um, years ago about
Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff
- ▶ 40:53 Luke Holden Philly was in the middle.
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
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