San Diego, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 57Melissa Urban 3Mark Sisson 3Kaveh Nurmofidi 3Jimmy Wales 3Brian Smith 3Randy Hetrick 2Michael Dubin 2Leigh Keith 2Joe Kudla 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where San Diego comes up
UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
- ▶ 23:59 Brian Smith Not knowing they were full of gold, and so I was given a bunch of cash and a pair of snips and hammer, and I found out when I got home that, that I'd made 3000 dollars, which was a fortune to go on the road for a month, you know, but I…
- ▶ 28:03 Brian Smith So I've got that against me, and I, by a pure fluke, was having a beer with one of my good retailers in, in Ocean Beach in San Diego, and at his store, and I was talking about how hard it was for me to get traction in the advertising, and…
- ▶ 41:21 Guy Raz Okay, and your operation at the time was you had a warehouse in San Diego, because you had moved to San Diego a few years earlier, and it was you and, uh, how many people do you remember working with you? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:50 Brian Smith So when I got back to San Diego after the trade show, we, you know, it was around about midnight.
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
- ▶ 8:57 Anthony Cortez It was supposed to be temporary and then it snowballs and now, uh, we're in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orlando, Tampa, now just Miami. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns
- ▶ 4:41 Christina Pang I am calling from San Diego today, and I am the founder of Haven Beauty.
Advice Line with Chieh Huang of Boxed
- ▶ 7:07 unnamed speaker It's a small little beach town here in North County, San Diego, and I started a small skincare brand called Surfing Cow. 3 times in the scene
Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Bob Taylor and Kurt Lista pooled their money to buy a tiny guitar shop in San Diego and built one of the most popular acoustic guitar brands in the world, Taylor Guitars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:45 Guy Raz And I think you continued to make a few more guitars in high school, and I, I guess it was around the time you discovered this little guitar shop in a suburb of San Diego called the American Dream, and I think they mainly, they did…
- ▶ 6:12 Guy Raz Okay, I want to bring, I want to bring you and Kurt, because meanwhile, you also grew up nearby in San Diego.
- ▶ 9:34 Guy Raz But you were, I mean, this was a small guitar shop in a suburb outside of San Diego, and you come up with this idea, and it doesn't, it's not like all of a sudden, like, Nirvana revolutionizes guitars.
- ▶ 48:44 Bob Taylor For the first five or six years that we made guitars, and no one had ever heard in San Diego of such a thing as even being a guitar maker, they'd say, what do you do?
- ▶ 50:42 Kurt Listug We were lucky in being approached by a San Diego agency that had some ideas, and it was not focusing on features of the guitars or artists who played them.
- ▶ 56:27 Guy Raz In San Diego, in El Cajon.
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyer's
- ▶ 5:06 Allison Ombres My name is Allison Ombres, calling in from San Diego, and I'm the founder of Encelia Hair.
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
- ▶ 18:56 Brian DeMent Yeah, we're kind of, like, wedged below LA and Orange County, but above San Diego in the Inland Empire.
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 24:23 Michael Dubin Um, I went to a mom blog conference down in, like, San Diego or something.
Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International
- ▶ 31:57 Ryan Hellriegel I'm Ryan Helrigo, and I'm calling in from San Diego, California.
Advice Line with Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 43:02 Nirav Tolia My sister-in-law started her neighborhood in San Diego.
Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
Advice Line with Troy Carter of Atom Factory
Advice Line with Perry Chen of Kickstarter
- ▶ 29:41 Joe Fontana At the time, uh, there's a little place in, uh, San Diego called the Crack Shack, and I was just obsessed with their chicken sandwiches.
Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
- ▶ 3:03 Guy Raz Before Bill and Lee came along, Bud ran a gym on Mission Beach in San Diego, and at one time worked with fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne.
- ▶ 14:13 Bill Keith He, he was really wanting to get into the woods, um, pretty isolated where he could be off the grid, and we headed up there from San Diego, just, and I remember thinking, gosh, this is isolated, not seeing a house for hundreds of miles in…
- ▶ 48:54 Leigh Keith Like, and we just started putting one foot in front of the other, but we signed a lease in 2009 on, um, a kitchen on Eastgate Mall in San Diego and, uh, went to work with our own money, still totally bootstrapped, um, to cobble together a… 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jenn Hyman of Rent The Runway
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
- ▶ 57:41 Bill Shufelt John and I committed to purchasing a brewery, 3000 miles away in San Diego.
What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 1
- ▶ 11:28 Guy Raz In 2001 to San Diego in particular, because that's sort of the birthplace of triathlons and you wanted to really pursue this dream of becoming a professional triathlete. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:03 Guy Raz And you were just a little, I think it was you and two other co-founders at that point, right, that you had met in San Diego. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line: Reaching New Customers
- ▶ 12:27 Kaveh Nurmofidi I'm calling from San Diego, California, and I'm the co-founder of Aficio XXII. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Holly Thaggard of Supergoop!
- ▶ 21:19 Anderson (Andy) Camp You know, it wasn't too difficult to make the leap from an engineering standpoint, but the, the key for us, we, we landed in San Diego.
Specialized Bicycle Components: Mike Sinyard
ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko
Advice Line with Tom Rinks of Sun Bum
Therabody: Jason Wersland
- ▶ 1:02:11 Jason Wersland I was driving to San Diego to a trade show, and I look at my phone, and it's my son, and I'm like, I'll call him back in a second.
nutpods: Madeline Haydon
- ▶ 36:33 Madeline Haydon So they, they had local foragers, so it would be someone like you, and you would specialize in the San Diego area, and you would see what trends are trending in your area, and you could bring in special items that met that trend for your…
Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann
Whole30: Melissa Urban
- ▶ 1:33 Melissa Urban We did this big road trip that lasted about six weeks through the entire U.S., and when we were in San Diego for the seminar, because my sister lived there, my mom and her husband flew out for it, and during a break, my mom came up and she…
- ▶ 19:00 Melissa Urban Nobody even knew what they were, but I was managing an office in San Diego at this time, and my sister lived in San Diego, and she was training kettlebells with a 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:40 Guy Raz I think, like, in the summer of twenty-ten, you were in San Diego doing a seminar, and I guess your parents, or your, one of your parents was in town, maybe your mom was there, and she's kind of shocked to see all these people turn out. 2 times in the scene
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
- ▶ 16:38 Mark Sisson However, uh, my partner had a girlfriend who lived in San Diego, and he would go down and visit her every other weekend, and there was a place emerging in San Diego called Soup Plantation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:11 Mark Sisson So in 2000, early 2014, I had a friend in San Diego who was a paleo chef, he was known as a paleo chef, and so I brought him on as an R&D consultant, and I hired his wife to manage the business for the year with the intent of arriving at a…
Brewing creativity with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
Aviator Nation: Paige Mycoskie
- ▶ 18:45 Paige Mycoskie And I was at the action sports trade show in San Diego, and I was wearing something that I made and
Vuori: Joe Kudla
- ▶ 6:11 Guy Raz Um, I, I guess you majored in, in accounting in college, and, and when you graduated, you were, I guess the plan was you're going to work at Ernst & Young in, in San Diego, like, as a, as a trainee. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 Guy Raz So you always knew you were going to come back to pursue being a CPA, but to come back as an auditor, and I guess that so happened, you came after two years, you got, I guess, Ernst & Young in San Diego agreed to hold your job for you, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:44 Joe Kudla We'd go to the same classes together, and, you know, I was starting to think about apparel and getting another brand going, and Chris was actually having a lot of the same kind of thoughts, and so he and I would go surf together, and it…
- ▶ 54:58 Joe Kudla And, uh, he said, oh, these are, this is this startup down in San Diego called Viore.
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
- ▶ 16:46 Steven Udvar-Hazy So I actually put together almost like a spreadsheet of a new schedule saying, you know, this flight leaves San Diego at seven oh five, it flies to LAX, then it goes here, Bakersfield or Fresno.
Powering cars with solar energy with Steve Fambro of Aptera Motors
- ▶ 1:08 Guy Raz He started his career back in 2005 as an electrical engineer for a San Diego biotech firm called Illumina. career
- ▶ 1:20 Steve Fambro I was doing what everybody does in San Diego that works, uh, south.
- ▶ 4:36 Guy Raz And, and so, I guess around the same time, you, in San Diego, you meet this guy, Chris Anthony, and Chris had a, like a, a small business where he made boats? 2 times in the scene
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- ▶ 18:07 Jeff Lawson And then we get to College Club, and they move us from Silicon Valley down to San Diego, which is where they're based, and they have filed to go public in April of, of, of 2000, but the market has basically just closed. 2 times in the scene
Guayakí Yerba Mate: David Karr and Chris Mann
- ▶ 53:36 Chris Mann Did a test launch in San Diego, and then later in 10, we came up with the other two, the, the Revelberry and the Enlightenment.
HIBT Lab! Colin and Samir: Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry
- ▶ 7:25 Samir Chaudry We would get a call that there was a game going on in San Diego at five o'clock, and it was 11 a.m. in L.A., and we would just get our gear together and drive and go film it, but as we started to recognize we needed more content, we…
Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
- ▶ 14:23 Noubar Afeyan Then I did in fact get approached by a West Coast San Diego based brand new startup company, which went on to be a very successful, very successful, well-known biotech company called IDEC.
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 31:17 Chris Zarou Will you spend 12 dollars to come see me in San Diego?
Jazzercise: Judi Sheppard Missett
- ▶ 4:27 Judi Sheppard Missett My first encounter with dance was in Coronado in the San Diego area, and my mom and I were out walking, and there was a dance studio, and
- ▶ 29:12 Guy Raz You're both young, a young married couple with a little kid, and you settle in San Diego. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:34 Guy Raz So, it's the early 19 seventies, and Judy Shepard-Masset is teaching her dance classes in the San Diego area.
ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd (2018)
- ▶ 35:00 Janice Bryant Howroyd When Bernie and I were leaving a conference in San Diego, we decided to take the scenic route back to L.A.,
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 18:17 Jamie Siminoff We moved to San Diego, the company, in
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
- ▶ 10:20 Chip Wilson Yeah, I, I called it West Beach, uh, which at the time was, I think it's probably from being in San Diego when I was young, and
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018)
- ▶ 6:22 Jimmy Wales And so, there was a bit of a transition period, but it was really in 90, I'd say about 98 is when I left Chicago, uh, and I moved to San Diego, and that was when I really decided, you know, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna focus full-time on my… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:38 Guy Raz Once Jimmy settled down in San Diego, he founded a small internet search company called Bomus.
- ▶ 16:26 Guy Raz Like, did you have an office in San Diego, or was it just your apartment, or what?
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou
- ▶ 30:14 Chris Zarou Will you spend 12 dollars to come see me in San Diego?
Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin
- ▶ 24:39 Michael Dubin Um, I went to a mom blog conference down in like San Diego or something.
ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd
- ▶ 34:24 Janice Bryant Howroyd When Bernie and I were leaving a conference in San Diego, we decided to take the scenic route back to L.A.,
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
TRX: Randy Hetrick (2018)
- ▶ 15:35 Randy Hetrick I think it's kind of a series of tipping points that, you know, they get relatively bigger if you're fortunate over time, but one of the early ones was I went down to a, to a trade show down in San Diego called the Idea World Fitness…
Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 17:31 Stewart Butterfield We all flew to San Diego for this conference.
Drybar: Alli Webb (2017)
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson
- ▶ 9:24 Chip Wilson Yeah, I, I called it West Beach, uh, which at the time was, I think it's probably from being in San Diego when I was young and
Dermalogica: Jane Wurwand (2016)
- ▶ 11:37 Jane Wurwand Yeah, we actually cooked it up together on a drive back from San Diego, took us two and a quarter hours, and in that drive we completely talked through our business plan.
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
- ▶ 5:52 Jimmy Wales And so there was a bit of a transition period, but it was really in 90, I'd say about 98 is when I left Chicago, uh, and I moved to San Diego, and that was when I really decided, you know, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna focus full time on my…
- ▶ 6:09 Guy Raz Once Jimmy settled down in San Diego, he founded a small internet search company called Bomus.
- ▶ 15:58 Guy Raz Like, did you have an office in San Diego, or was it just your apartment, or what?
Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade (2017)
Bumble: Whitney Wolfe
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp
Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher (2016)
Kickstarter: Perry Chen
TRX: Randy Hetrick
- ▶ 15:48 Randy Hetrick I think it's kind of a series of tipping points that, you know, they get relatively bigger if you're fortunate over time, but one of the early ones was I went down to a, to a trade show down in San Diego called the Idea World Fitness…
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
Celebrity Chef: José Andrés
Dermalogica: Jane Wurwand
- ▶ 10:39 Jane Wurwand Yeah, we actually cooked it up together on a drive back from San Diego, took us two and a quarter hours, and in that drive we completely talked through our business plan.