Portland, Oregon, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 72Sadie Lincoln 12Seth Tibbott 8Ron Khormaei 4Leif Gildersleeve 4Jean-Pierre Parent 3Cameron Healy 3Tim Leatherman 2Rick Steves 2Mike Sinyard 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Portland, Oregon comes up
Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
- ▶ 46:27 Cameron Healy With his Portland girlfriend and didn't come back. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
- ▶ 5:42 Leif Gildersleeve I'm calling in from Portland, Oregon. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift
- ▶ 32:53 Jean-Pierre Parent I'm in Portland, Oregon, and in 2009, I opened Soma Kombucha. 3 times in the scene
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
- ▶ 7:54 Ron Khormaei I am Ron Kormai, CEO and founder of Steelport Knife Co. in Portland, Oregon. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Dave Weiner of Priority Bicycles
Advice Line: Playing to Your Strengths
- ▶ 33:16 Sadie Lincoln To help me because there was nobody else teaching bar three or bar in all of Portland.
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
- ▶ 20:13 Katherine Kirbis And then within a couple of years, we got into our first wholesale retailers in the Portland, Oregon area. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Sadie Lincoln of barre3
Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
Specialized Bicycle Components: Mike Sinyard
- ▶ 19:04 Mike Sinyard We had landed on this one configuration of rubber compound that was good, and at that time, I knew this one guy in Portland who was a big, big cyclist, and he was riding from Portland all the way down to Panama, and his name was Jim Merce,… 2 times in the scene
On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti
- ▶ 24:59 Olivier Bernhard No, it was like, we had engineered them, so you actually could run 305 hundred case with them, and, hey, I don't want to talk badly about other companies, but I have been an athlete for, for the company, right, in Portland, at Beaverton,…
- ▶ 55:16 Guy Raz You opened an office in Portland, which is, I think a lot of people know this, it's the center of the shoe world in the U.S.
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- ▶ 42:14 Bayard Winthrop Um, we began some of the early work with a group called the S Group in Portland, Oregon.
Literally unearthing a climate solution with Cody Finke of Brimstone
Dutch Bros. Coffee: Travis Boersma
Osprey Packs: Mike Pfotenhauer
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
- ▶ 34:18 George Zimmer We're in Seattle, Portland, Dallas, Sacramento, and Houston.
HIBT Lab! UNLESS Collective: Eric Liedtke
- ▶ 7:01 Eric Liedtke I mean, it depends on where you are and where you live and what your recycling center takes, but I'm living in Portland, Oregon, which is, you know,
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
- ▶ 3:10 Guy Raz But that means that today, Leatherman is still a family owned business based in the city where Tim was raised, Portland, Oregon.
- ▶ 13:47 Guy Raz And you returned to, to Portland? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:09 Guy Raz And I believe the knife company was Gerber, which is also based in Portland.
- ▶ 39:21 Tim Leatherman So Steve and I got back in the car, drove back to Portland, went back into my garage, and about six months later, I came out with a new prototype.
- ▶ 50:06 Guy Raz 13 years in, you build a very big facility in Portland to manufacture the product, and I think to this day, they are assembled in Portland, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:57 Guy Raz Why did you decide to continue to make them in Portland? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:54 Tim Leatherman And, of course, our labor costs are higher here in Portland, but we do have some advantages.
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott (2019)
- ▶ 1:03 Guy Raz We did it in Portland, Oregon, and it's hard to figure out who's having a better time here, him or me or the audience, so happy holidays and enjoy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:25 Seth Tibbott I want to teach kids, but I want to be on the other side of the classroom on the outside, so I learned that trade, and then I came west, and I got a job right here in the Portland area in Washington County teaching outdoor school.
- ▶ 11:41 Guy Raz Seth, I know that we are in Portland, and so everyone in this audience can tell me everything 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Seth Tibbott We were grossing, like, 1300 dollars a month at that point, and so I started looking outside the Portland metropolitan area, and I went up to Hewsome, which is about 70 miles from here, east of here, small little town, and I looked in
- ▶ 33:31 Seth Tibbott In 1981, when I was delivering tempeh around Portland, there was a Tofurkey sandwich, T-O-F-U-R-K-E-Y, and it was being made by King Harvest, local sandwich maker here in Portland. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:22 Guy Raz I spoke with Seth two years ago at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon. 2 times in the scene
Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim
Live From The HIBT Summit: Cynt Marshall, Chieh Huang, and Sadie Lincoln on Leadership
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
- ▶ 0:25 Guy Raz Powell's is based in Portland, Oregon, and it's one of the largest family owned independent booksellers in the world.
- ▶ 1:15 Guy Raz I also read something that you said that you don't think that Powell's would have survived or thrived anywhere else except for Portland. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:30 Guy Raz So again, for anyone who's been to Portland, you probably have gone to Powell's because it's also a tourist attraction because it's such a huge, well-known landmark, um, in the city. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:31 Guy Raz So, I mean, within such a short period of time, you had to lay off a huge number, because I think you've got seven physical stores in Portland, right?
- ▶ 13:46 Guy Raz She's the owner and president of Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon.
- ▶ 20:45 Guy Raz You know, Emily, I imagine that over the years, there have been opportunities to expand Powell's beyond Portland, right? 3 times in the scene
Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
- ▶ 26:24 Mark Constantine If we'd have done the same thing at that same time, we would have seen the body shop that inspired her in the first place, and we would have seen a whole series of mom and pop, uh, shops exactly like that, right up the west coast from…
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency
- ▶ 16:34 Jeremy Zimmer So if you want to do a live event for Portland and Seattle, you could sort of do it for those two areas.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Sadie Lincoln
- ▶ 0:48 Guy Raz I know you're in Portland, and your, your company is based in Portland, and I'm, I'm assuming you've been all, your team has been kind of teleworking and Zoom calls and things like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:16 Sadie Lincoln We just opened Cedar Mill, and we're testing opening Cedar Mill here in Portland, Oregon.
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield (2017)
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
- ▶ 10:46 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…
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
Dave's Killer Bread: Dave Dahl
- ▶ 4:01 Guy Raz Dave was born in Portland, Oregon in 1963, where his family ran a small bakery.
- ▶ 10:56 Guy Raz So you head back to, to Portland after that, and what did you do?
- ▶ 50:05 Guy Raz Um, there was a moment that year where you were outside of the, of a store, of Dave's Killer Bread, of a facility in Portland, and maybe you were, you were drunk, or you were having kind of a manic episode.
- ▶ 58:14 Guy Raz You've got, uh, an art gallery in Portland.
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott
- ▶ 3:36 Guy Raz The company now makes all kinds of plant-based protein in Hood River, Oregon, not far from Portland. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 Seth Tibbott So I learned that trade, and then I came west, and I got a job right here in the Portland area in Washington County teaching outdoor school.
- ▶ 12:41 Guy Raz And this is the most NPR meets Portland conversation I've ever had in my life.
- ▶ 17:29 Seth Tibbott We were grossing, like, 1300 dollars a month at that point, and so I started looking outside the Portland metropolitan area, and I went up to Hewsome, which is about 70 miles from here, east of here, small little town.
- ▶ 31:52 Seth Tibbott In 1981, when I was delivering tempeh around Portland, there was a Tofurkey sandwich, T-O-F-U-R-K-E-Y, and it was being made by King Harvest, local sandwich maker here in Portland. 2 times in the scene
Belkin International: Chet Pipkin
- ▶ 0:00 Guy Raz So before we start the show, I just want to let you know that we've just released a bunch more tickets for our live show in Portland on Thursday, May, I'll be joined live on stage by Seth Tibbet, the creator of Tofurky. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:32 Guy Raz That's Clay McCabe of Portland, Oregon.
Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer
- ▶ 32:53 George Zimmer We're in Seattle, Portland, Dallas, Sacramento, and Houston.
Barre3: Sadie Lincoln (2017)
- ▶ 16:15 Sadie Lincoln We ended up deciding on Portland because, uh, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:16 Guy Raz So it's 2008, and at this point, Sadie and Chris are pretty busy running their studio in Portland, and they spend so much time there that they actually have to hire a babysitter to be at the studio so that their kids and then their…
- ▶ 31:58 Sadie Lincoln When we moved to Portland, we decidedly shut out all traditional marketing and a way to, like, express ourselves.
- ▶ 41:04 Sadie Lincoln Um, moving to Portland in just the right moment, being shut out from all the noise, so we weren't competing with anyone.
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
- ▶ 9:36 Miguel McKelvey And so I basically, I went back to Portland.
Minted: Mariam Naficy
- ▶ 26:51 Mariam Naficy I signed up all these stationary brands, and I put them online, and then in the, in the background, I hired a coder who was in college in Portland, and I would work at night on the competition structure, which was my real passion, which…
Bob's Red Mill: Bob Moore
- ▶ 2:56 Guy Raz Right around the time, he decided to study theology at a Christian seminary in Portland, Oregon.
- ▶ 18:26 Bob Moore I had an intense desire to learn to read the Bible in the original languages, Hebrew and Koine Greek, and, ah, we did a little scouting about and found here that Portland, where I am right now, was one of the greatest spots for seminaries,…
- ▶ 39:04 Guy Raz In 2007, the company moved to a bigger facility just outside of Portland, where they make about 400 different products, still using the old quartz millstones from the 1800.
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…
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu
Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz
- ▶ 13:52 Howard Schultz And their dream, and nothing against them, their dream at the time was to expand to Portland, Oregon.
Barre3: Sadie Lincoln
- ▶ 15:31 Sadie Lincoln We ended up deciding on Portland because, uh, I wasn't as excited about Bend. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:45 Guy Raz So, it's 2008, and at this point, Sadie and Chris are pretty busy running their studio in Portland, and they spend so much time there that they actually have to hire a babysitter to be at the studio so that their kids and then their…
- ▶ 32:26 Sadie Lincoln When we moved to Portland, we decidedly shut out all traditional marketing and a way to, like, express ourselves.
- ▶ 41:35 Sadie Lincoln Um, moving to Portland in just the right moment, being shut out from all the noise, so we weren't competing with anyone.
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 8:15 Miguel McKelvey And so I basically, I went back to Portland.