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Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 1:01 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how John Gabbert left his family's furniture business to branch out on his own with Room & Board, a national brand that was inspired by IKEA. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 Guy Raz It eventually, you guys started calling it Room and Board? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:33 John Gabbert So I went back to him with the proposal that I would buy what was then room and board as a division of Gabbert's, um, and basically trade my stock. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:06 John Gabbert Um, I kind of avoided what that was, so room and board stayed what it was, which is more of this Ikea-like product, which didn't compete directly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:37 Guy Raz All right, so you decide to give up on these other businesses, the, the kids furniture, and the, I guess the design studio, and, and really focus on room and board, and 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:25 Guy Raz So it's the early 19 nineties, and John is starting to develop a distinctive room and board style, and he's making the furniture in just the way he'd imagined years earlier when he made that very first trip to Ikea.
- ▶ 40:14 John Gabbert I think that the whole transition to what room and board is today started with a point of view about design and value, and a lot of that came from what the manufacturer's capabilities were.
- ▶ 44:53 John Gabbert Well, we actually did a partnership with Allied Home Movers, where they do the work for us, but I, if you talk to their employees, I think they're room and board employees. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:59 Guy Raz Okay, so you get through the financial crisis, and, um, and room and board once again gets into growth mode.
- ▶ 55:44 Guy Raz Like you, for most of the history of room and board, it was a hundred percent owned by you, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:48 John Gabbert And Roman Board continued to grow and be successful.
- ▶ 1:00:56 Guy Raz Just a short drive, in fact, from Room & Board's headquarters.