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- ▶ 0:58 Guy Raz So he built an entirely new system called Pods, then launched another moving and storage business to compete with the first one. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:35 Guy Raz I wanted to, I want to describe this, this truck, because I've used, um, pot, what would become pods.
- ▶ 40:41 Guy Raz I want to, I want to back up for a sec, because I know you launched, officially launched the company in 1998, and you call it P.O.D.S., and I think that stands for, uh, Portable On-Demand Storage. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:32 Guy Raz Right, it said pods, it would say pods and giant letters on the box. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:21 Guy Raz Meantime, you start to run into problems that many years later, uh, companies like Airbnb and Uber would run into, which is a municipal regulations first in Tampa, the Tampa Bay area, because they were saying people started, there were… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:21 Guy Raz I think by, by 2006 pods, so this is like eight years in. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:53 Guy Raz I think initially you thought, all right, I want to work with pods again. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:11 Guy Raz Alright, so you took this idea to your former, uh, colleagues at Pods to see if they would sign a non-compete agreement with you, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:10 Guy Raz Is the model the same as pods? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:27 Guy Raz And then you start this pods business, and you completely transform moving and storage, and then that business is sold, and I get this one, and, and it's a 5 times in the scene
Boxed: Chieh Huang
- ▶ 59:58 Chieh Huang Like, it's gonna start raining, so we ended up getting a, a container, so like, a pod container, and we put extra merchandise in there, hired neighbors, hired friends.