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How I Built Resilience: Emily Powell of Powell's Books
- ▶ 0:21 Guy Raz She's the owner and president of Powell's books. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 4 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. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:48 Emily Powell And for us, that meant our warehouse that operates Powell's.com. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:09 Guy Raz I mean, presumably Powell's, the bookstore, you are allowing people in, but a limited number of people in? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:04 Guy Raz I mean, one of the things that Powell's was known for were events. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:25 Guy Raz One of the decisions that you made, um, was to pull Powell's from Amazon. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:47 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, more of my conversation with Emily Powell and how Powell's Books handles the competition from bookseller giants like Amazon.
- ▶ 13:46 Guy Raz She's the owner and president of Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:42 Guy Raz Emily, you know, one of the, again, like one of the things about the in-store experience is you read reviews from people who work at Powell's or Powell's will pick books that they like and, and people trust that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:10 Emily Powell I'm proud of Powell's and being a very, I would say, emotionally intelligent business in that we recognize that it's the full human being that shows up at work every day, and boy, this year has reminded us of that in spades, so I'd say… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:48 Guy Raz That's an excerpt from my live conversation with Emily Powell, the owner and CEO of Powell's Books.