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Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar
Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)
- ▶ 23:38 Marc Lore Yep, and Lax, yeah, all three of us, and then Vinny went on to become the general counsel of Topps, Inc., uh, Lax ran the pit, and I went out to Seattle to run a game company called WizKids,
- ▶ 45:17 Marc Lore But, uh, at the same time, Amazon had, uh, asked us to go out to see them in, uh, Seattle. 2 times in the scene
Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business
- ▶ 36:00 Beryl Stafford And I was really taking it seriously then, and I was excited about it, and, and I was working very, very hard, and traveling a lot to Seattle, Austin, you know, Southern Cal, where I thought was the best markets.
Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
- ▶ 6:52 Cameron Healy Seattle to Southern Oregon, I-Five corridor.
- ▶ 27:19 Cameron Healy We blew it, and the reputation, and so I went up to Seattle for a little regional natural food trade show to talk to our customers, to tell them that we were fixing the problem, and on the drive back, my then wife was driving, and I was…
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
- ▶ 1:36 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two part-time baristas in Seattle became best friends, moved to Philadelphia, and went on to pioneer the specialty coffee movement in the U.S. by founding La Cologne Coffee Roasters.
- ▶ 8:39 Guy Raz So, in 1982, you are in Seattle, studying at the University of Washington, and you also have a part-time job, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:58 J.P. Iberti And, uh, my sister married an American guy from Seattle, so that was the connection to the Northwest. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 Todd Carmichael Because you gotta imagine that there's maybe six cafes in all of Seattle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 Guy Raz Did you just, like, move back to Seattle and, and say to JP, hey, let's do this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:17 Guy Raz This is, uh, you're back in Seattle. 4 times in the scene
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- ▶ 3:33 Guy Raz That was a longtime local TV producer in Seattle.
- ▶ 8:57 Guy Raz You're, obviously, your family, your parents are in Seattle, and 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:11 Val Griffith There was also a, ah, chocolatier in town, fabulous Seattle chocolatier called Franz, and Franz had a chocolate-coated almond that was, in my mind, perfection.
- ▶ 31:56 Guy Raz So it's around 2013, and Breezy and Val are in Seattle searching for someone to help make their thinly coated chocolate almonds. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:56 Breezy Griffith Uh, right after I'd moved to Seattle to do this full time, I would still go back to New York every once in a while.
- ▶ 52:45 Val Griffith We reached out to a co-man in Seattle that was actually a confectioner, uh, you know, co-man.
- ▶ 56:04 Breezy Griffith I got off the plane, went to the same podium, you know, when you step off boarding and deplaning, and I just said, is this plane going back to Seattle?
Advice Line with Todd Graves of Raising Cane's
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
- ▶ 6:08 Leif Gildersleeve So my dad used to fly in fish from the coast from Seattle, um, fly it in inland where there wasn't good seafood.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift
- ▶ 37:58 Jean-Pierre Parent I opened a taproom in Seattle, which I thought was going to kind of save everything.
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- ▶ 3:59 Natalie Gordon Like, truthfully, getting a job at Microsoft was much more prestigious than getting a job at Amazon at that time in Seattle.
- ▶ 7:46 Guy Raz Ok, and so, when this trip ended, did you, did you guys go back to Seattle? 2 times in the scene
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- ▶ 14:13 Craig Newmark I checked out Seattle and San Francisco, interviewed with a number of companies like Charles Schwab, and the folks at Charles Schwab made me a good offer.
Advice Line with Dave Weiner of Priority Bicycles
(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
- ▶ 18:23 Amy Errett Um, I will never forget it was the fall of 2007, and we had an investment meeting in Seattle, and he walked in and he said, we need to slow down our investments.
Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme
- ▶ 5:59 Sasha Milstein I'm originally from Seattle, but I now call Brooklyn home, and I am the founder of Aunt Ethel's Pot Pies.
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
- ▶ 5:32 Rick Steves He was the go-to guy in Seattle for, for your concert pianists and so on.
- ▶ 8:35 Rick Steves Coins sold in Seattle in the sixties, foreign coins, for
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 1:08:20 Rick Steves In Edmonds, yeah, north of Seattle.
Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie
- ▶ 17:34 Lydia Welsh I'm calling from Seattle, Washington, and I'm the founder of Clear Story Skin Care.
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Hero Cosmetics: Ju Rhyu and Dwight Lee
- ▶ 4:19 Guy Raz She was born in Korea in the late seventies, and her family moved to Seattle when she was just three years old. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:46 Dwight Lee I wasn't worried because shortly after I moved to Seattle.
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 51:07 Matt Meeker You'll live in Seattle, but you'll commute to New York.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 59:53 Rod Cuthbert Two software developers who were at Microsoft in Seattle.
Lily’s Sweets: Cynthia Tice
- ▶ 30:17 Cynthia Tice Yeah, we had, you know, we had remained friends since we stopped doing consulting together, and he said to me, uh, I've owned an, I've owned a little store in Seattle, and I don't, I hate it, and my wife and I are getting ready to move,…
Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
- ▶ 1:26 Guy Raz Fored with it, and they decided to start a coffee shop in London, which turned into a massive business called Seattle Coffee Company, which they sold to Starbucks, and then eventually came back to Seattle, where they're from, and started…
- ▶ 25:12 Scott Svenson There's a loyalty that develops, you know, with those iconic local, we have many, we have several of them here in Seattle, which have been around for 50, 60, 70 years.
Advice Line with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
- ▶ 12:28 Kim Jones Uh, Seattle.
- ▶ 19:39 Lance Kesner Hi, my name is Lance Kesner, and I'm from Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle.
Advice Line with Randy Goldberg of Bombas
- ▶ 19:07 Sham Patel I'm calling in from Seattle, Washington, and, uh, I'm one of the co-founders of Play Carum, a company dedicated to popularizing and selling the very popular
nutpods: Madeline Haydon
- ▶ 4:07 Guy Raz She'd gone to business school in Seattle, but never saw herself as an entrepreneur.
- ▶ 41:39 Madeline Haydon And I also launched in a small 12 store chain up in Seattle, Washington called PCC Natural Markets.
YouTube Creator and Cookbook Author: Rosanna Pansino
- ▶ 5:12 Guy Raz But for now, Rosanna Panzino grew up in Seattle.
- ▶ 6:09 Guy Raz So, um, Roseanne, I know you went to college at Pacific Lutheran University, which is in Seattle, I think, or near Seattle.
- ▶ 9:30 Rosanna Pansino But I was working a ton of jobs in Seattle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:13 Guy Raz And it was like a, a fan fiction show that aired locally in Seattle?
- ▶ 31:28 Rosanna Pansino I grew up in Seattle, um, home of the original Starbucks.
Weee!: Larry Liu
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
The art of letting go with Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn of Dang Foods
- ▶ 21:26 Vincent Kitirattragarn Yeah, so I sometimes get investment opportunities sent to me, and I usually don't, don't pay them much mind, but one really caught my eye, which was, um, there's a restaurant in Seattle that had to shut down during COVID, and they lost…
Leading through radical change with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- ▶ 41:13 Lyndon Cormack Well, we reached out to them, um, and they're based in Seattle, so it's just a short drive away from us here in Vancouver, and, uh, I ended up going to meet the buyer at the Nordstrom office in downtown Seattle, uh, 3 times in the scene
Vuori: Joe Kudla
- ▶ 4:06 Joe Kudla I grew up on this little Island called Vashon, which is just off the coast of West Seattle.
- ▶ 55:03 Joe Kudla And the next thing you know, we were on a plane up to Seattle to present the line to REI.
- ▶ 1:05:15 Guy Raz Um, Joe, when you think about, you know, growing up in, in Sean Island, and then outside of Seattle, and then trying modeling, and
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
- ▶ 46:23 Spencer Jan And then you got to fly to Seattle and all of this.
The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
- ▶ 1:05:46 Henk Rogers You know, and if we're in the same jurisdiction, like if we're both in Seattle or both in New York, every other night, bottle of wine.
MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
- ▶ 2:56 Guy Raz So they eventually went back to the US, back home to Seattle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Ally Svenson I was in Seattle, and then I knew I was going to be abroad for the year, and when I was in France, it was just about postcards and writing letters, and it started very subtly.
- ▶ 6:39 Ally Svenson I got my dream job, which was back in Seattle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:01 Guy Raz You knew it, because you guys were from Seattle, so you knew Starbucks, and
- ▶ 14:32 Scott Svenson And spent a weekend and, um, came back and decided that we were going to open a Seattle-style coffee shop in London inspired by what we missed from our days in Seattle with Starbucks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:09 Ally Svenson In, in a Starbucks-style coffee place, we knew we needed to get somebody over that could help just from an operations perspective, and this friend of ours said, oh, yes, I'll think about it, I'll look into it, and then she contacted us and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:54 Scott Svenson A bit of Seattle, and that meant, you know, the customer service ethic, the positivity, the energy that we associated with home that didn't exist on the high street at London at the time.
- ▶ 43:57 Guy Raz So you guys moved back to the US, back to Seattle in 2000. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:38 Scott Svenson You overlay that with somebody approached us during that time that we were back in Seattle and thinking about how we were going to be investing our professional time, and they came to us with the idea of doing something different in pizza.
- ▶ 58:07 Ally Svenson That's why we chose that location, downtown Seattle.
- ▶ 1:05:18 Ally Svenson They would have had to check a box in this, in Seattle, and we did not require them to check the box.
Dutch Bros. Coffee: Travis Boersma
- ▶ 14:12 Travis Boersma We decided to, to not just go to Boyd's, but to hit any coffee establishment that we could through the I-Five corridor all the way up to Seattle and back.
HIBT Lab! Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- ▶ 34:34 Guy Raz Um, and presumably you moved to Seattle and, and, and you go, I think you went to work for what at the time was a new division, which was AWS, Amazon Web Services, um, which obviously now is, I think this is our biggest engine of revenue.
- ▶ 39:41 Guy Raz And, and so did you leave Seattle?
- ▶ 44:13 Jeff Lawson So I start, I'm still in Seattle. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
- ▶ 30:01 Blake Scholl And so what that means in practice is that just about the longest non-stop route would be Tokyo to Seattle.
- ▶ 34:59 Guy Raz I mean, if you're going west from the US, you got to fly out of LAX and, and Seattle.
Zumiez: Tom Campion
- ▶ 2:37 Guy Raz Before that, Tom and Gary both worked at JCPenney in Seattle, and that was where Tom learned about the nuts and bolts of retail, and as I mentioned, how to keep a business profitable by making sure you manage the inventory carefully. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:23 Guy Raz JCPenney at the Northgate Mall in Seattle.
- ▶ 18:11 Guy Raz You mentioned this brand, Shah Safari, and, uh, it's interesting because this was a brand that was started in Seattle, and it was basically focused on, on apparel for young people.
- ▶ 24:30 Tom Campion Yeah, we had a competitor at the time that had about, started in South Seattle and Tacoma called Mr. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:46 Guy Raz In Seattle. 2 times in the scene
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
- ▶ 34:18 George Zimmer We're in Seattle, Portland, Dallas, Sacramento, and Houston.
- ▶ 38:33 George Zimmer He was in Seattle, and he said, you know, this is exactly what we do, fit people in clothing.
HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler
- ▶ 5:12 Polina Veksler And so the first chance that I got, um, I was able to move to Seattle and work in strategy at Microsoft.
Twitch: Emmett Shear
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
- ▶ 17:35 Ryan Schreiber Is there a phone number for an Up Records in Seattle or in Washington?
Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
- ▶ 26:46 Guy Raz And he grew up in Seattle, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:51 Babak Radboy I knew that I was not employable in Seattle. 2 times in the scene
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