Seattle
6 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 28, 2017 by Howard Schultz · said 322 times in 107 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (164), Lara Merriken (10), Bruce Pavitt (10), Rick Steves (8), Howard Schultz (7), Ally Svenson (7), Marc Lore (6), Herb Kelleher (6)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 24 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
- La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)
- Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
- Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar
- Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
- Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 38 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
- Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
- Advice Line with Todd Graves of Raising Cane's
- Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
- Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 23 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- YouTube Creator and Cookbook Author: Rosanna Pansino
- Hero Cosmetics: Ju Rhyu and Dwight Lee
- Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
- Advice Line with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
- nutpods: Madeline Haydon
- Weee!: Larry Liu
- Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- BARK: Matt Meeker
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 46 mentions in 13 episodes 4 per episode
- MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
- Zumiez: Tom Campion
- Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- Vuori: Joe Kudla
- HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
- The art of letting go with Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn of Dang Foods
- Leading through radical change with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 15 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
- Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
- Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
- I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
- HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler
- Twitch: Emmett Shear
- Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 27 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
- Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
- Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves
- Diapers.com & Jet.com: Marc Lore
- Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott (2019)
- Audible: Don Katz
- Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 95 mentions in 19 episodes 5 per episode
- Sub Pop Records: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman
- La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti
- Rad Power Bikes: Mike Radenbaugh
- Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
- Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
- S'well: Sarah Kauss
- Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Jeni Britton Bauer of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 18 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
- Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes
- Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer
- Bonobos: Andy Dunn
- Remembering Herb Kelleher
- Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
- Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2017 28 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
2016 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Seattle, oldest first
Sep 28, 2017 positive
Jul 20, 2020
Mar 8, 2021 positive
Rick Steves made early profits flipping European coins in Seattle
“Coins sold in Seattle in the sixties. Foreign coins for Three cents a piece, you know, in the coin markets, if it was a German coin or a Norwegian coin. So I could buy 52 Groschen coins for a nickel and bring them home and sell them for three cents each.”
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Ally Svenson: Hiring formerly incarcerated individuals yielded incredible work ethic
“They would have had to check a box in this, in Seattle, and we did not require them to check the box. We employed them. The first job out of prison was working at Maud, and in a very short period of time even though some people thought, well, that's kind of cr…”
Mar 18, 2024 positive
Liu: US Chinese immigrants organically organized WeChat grocery group buys in 2014
“So, so first of all, I saw this happening in many different groups, right? Not just this one group. And also, I talked to my friends in other cities in the US. People were doing this in Boston. People were doing this in Seattle. So Chinese immigrants were doin…”