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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Seattle comes up
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 54:02 Otis Chandler Well, somehow, their corp dev guys knew to ping us, and so they, they said, hey, we wanna have you, we've talked about this exciting idea in the past, we'd like you to come up to Seattle and meet some of the, the team, and,
- ▶ 59:01 Otis Chandler Yeah, I think it was late, 2012, I flew up to Seattle, and I think it was, there was definitely a month, which was probably the most stressful month of our lives, where we couldn't talk to anybody, we had to stop talking to all the VCs, we…
Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
- ▶ 38:26 Tim Leatherman But the 200 and eighty-eth catalog was in Seattle, and it was close enough to call and ask for appointment to come up and show, show them our tool in person. 2 times in the scene
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
- ▶ 23:26 Guy Raz All right, so you guys formed this band, and that summer you took a road trip to Seattle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:36 Guy Raz So it's the summer of 1989, and Mac and Laura are back in North Carolina after a road trip to Seattle.
- ▶ 39:00 Guy Raz Nevermind by Nirvana comes out, which really kind of, there's an explosion in attention to small labels, and, you know, all of a sudden, just an explosion, and then the major record labels kind of realizing that these, these bands in…
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott (2019)
- ▶ 35:28 Seth Tibbott I mean, PCC up in, uh, Seattle was another one that embraced it.
Audible: Don Katz
Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
- ▶ 43:56 Steve Holmes Senegal, you gotta call him on a Saturday morning in Seattle. 4 times in the scene
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
Live From The HIBT Summit: Cynt Marshall, Chieh Huang, and Sadie Lincoln on Leadership
- ▶ 7:03 Sadie Lincoln What would this look like in your community in Bend, Oregon, or Seattle, or, or Manila?
ARRAY: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay
- ▶ 45:19 Ava DuVernay A white woman out of Seattle who was a filmmaker who made very tiny films that were so good, and she somehow made a film almost every year, and I thought, oh, maybe I can be like Lynn Shelton and make like a little film every year that…
Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- ▶ 5:09 Rich Barton My, really, one of my great friends from Stanford, she took a product manager job there at Microsoft and moved to Seattle right out of school, which was an interesting little company that recruited on Stanford's campus.
- ▶ 26:22 Rich Barton We did a deal with a guy we went to Stanford with, Gordon Stevenson, who was a regional broker here in Seattle, and we said, Gordo, let us try to sell one of your houses.
Diapers.com & Jet.com: Marc Lore
Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
- ▶ 46:19 Jeff Martin Yeah, it's, um, we found this guy, I think he was outside of Seattle, who essentially would make these, like, cauldron-style farmer's market poppers, where it's this big, huge pot, and these burners, it's like a, the burner that you'd use…
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves
- ▶ 4:58 Rick Steves He was the go-to guy in Seattle for, for your concert pianists and so on.
- ▶ 8:01 Rick Steves Coins sold in Seattle in the sixties.
- ▶ 41:48 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…
- ▶ 1:13:16 Rick Steves In Edmonds, yeah, north of Seattle.
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender
- ▶ 1:18:30 Alan Newman I better get educated, and Bob had been following it, so he knew what was going on, and he said, why don't we fly out to the Pacific Northwest, because that's where it's most developed, and we flew out to Seattle, we rented a car, and we…
Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
- ▶ 31:40 Joel Clark We, we had, my brother John had gotten the product into QFC grocery stores up in Seattle prior to me taking it over.
Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
- ▶ 26:24 Mark Constantine If we'd have done the same thing at that same time, we would have seen the body shop that inspired her in the first place, and we would have seen a whole series of mom and pop, uh, shops exactly like that, right up the west coast from…
- ▶ 41:42 Mark Constantine We did something called Bodkins, which we opened in Seattle. 4 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp
- ▶ 2:20 Jeremy Stoppelman Uh, but it was, you know, pretty soon we could start seeing impacts in some of the cities that were hardest hit in the U S so for example, Seattle.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
Rad Power Bikes: Mike Radenbaugh
- ▶ 41:24 Guy Raz And at this point, they've moved Rad Power Bikes to Seattle, and they're working with a factory about 6000 miles away in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:23 Mike Radenbaugh For so long, but we did have two local guys in Seattle, these amazing entrepreneur slash angel investors that joined us in 2015 and started to function as kind of a quasi board of directors with me.
- ▶ 55:00 Guy Raz You got some funding from the guys who founded Seattle-based, Sue Lilly and Blue Nile.
- ▶ 1:00:20 Guy Raz I mean, so, so you knew that something was going on when it actually, because you're in Seattle, Seattle was the epicenter of, we forget, it was the epicenter of COVID for a while. 5 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency
- ▶ 16:34 Jeremy Zimmer So if you want to do a live event for Portland and Seattle, you could sort of do it for those two areas.
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti
- ▶ 1:30 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 US by founding La Cologne Coffee Roasters.
- ▶ 8:33 Guy Raz So, in 1982, you are in Seattle, studying at the University of Washington, and you also have a part-time job, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 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
- ▶ 25:49 Guy Raz This is, uh, you're back in Seattle. 3 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Live with John Foley
How I Built Resilience: Live with Julia Hartz
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
- ▶ 14:10 Vicky Tsai So after business school, we moved to Seattle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:09 Vicky Tsai We still had a house in Seattle.
- ▶ 21:17 Guy Raz Because he was up in, in Seattle. 2 times in the scene
Sub Pop Records: Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman
- ▶ 0:58 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two rock and roll fans harnessed the raw energy of grunge in Seattle, and then sent it out to the world through the iconic record label, Sub Pop. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:11 Guy Raz I was supposed to interview Bruce Pavott and Jonathan Poneman live on stage in Seattle, but those plans got shelved for obvious reasons. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Guy Raz Um, alright, so you do eventually, uh, graduate high school, uh, and then I guess you head out to the Seattle area because, uh, that's where your girlfriend at the time, uh, wanted to go, um, and when you got there, what, what was your… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:03 Bruce Pavitt Then when I moved to Seattle in 83, I started a column called Sub Pop USA in the Rocket magazine. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 Guy Raz Alright, so you're in Seattle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Guy Raz Seattle, like, you know, obviously you have Jimi Hendrix, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:47 Jonathan Poneman Well, there was this tavern in downtown Seattle, right next to the building where Bruce and I would later have our first offices. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:40 Guy Raz So it's the spring of 1988, and Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman have officially launched their record label, Sub Pop, in Seattle.
- ▶ 36:25 Bruce Pavitt Uh, certainly the vibe, and I think the reason the word stuck is because the whole vibe of what was going on in Seattle was super resourceful and lo-fi.
- ▶ 40:28 Bruce Pavitt I was still working at Muzak, and I do want to say that a lot of the musicians in the Seattle scene were also working for the elevator music company, Muzak.
- ▶ 56:56 Bruce Pavitt Those first few years of keeping that business alive and developing the buzz and the hype and the excitement of Seattle, and then our star band left us for a major.
- ▶ 1:01:11 Bruce Pavitt I think my feeling was that Sub Pop had done a great job of hyping the scene, hyping Seattle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:18 Guy Raz I wonder, like, even in that movie Singles, there's a character, um, played by Matt Dillon, and he's in a band, I think they're called Citizen Dick, I think that's what the name of the band is, and Matt Dillon is, like, a caricature of a… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:57 Guy Raz Um, Seattle, the Seattle scene is just blowing up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:37 Bruce Pavitt I would come to Seattle, and I would be nervous, because I thought I might bump into you.
- ▶ 1:23:57 Guy Raz Bruce, when you think about Sub Pop today, it's a Seattle brand. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:21 Guy Raz By the way, two years ago, the label marked its 30th anniversary with a massive concert in Seattle.
S'well: Sarah Kauss
- ▶ 50:37 Sarah Kauss So I actually was at Starbucks headquarters for a meeting with our buyers, talking about the program that we were doing in, in Austin and Atlanta, and it was very fortunate because at the time, this was in December, 2014, they were opening… 2 times in the scene
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
Live From The HIBT Summit: Jeni Britton Bauer of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich (2018)
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur
Spindrift: Bill Creelman
- ▶ 8:48 Bill Creelman You know, it was probably my fifth year, and so I went out there with an idea of kind of finishing that summer, and then, and then ultimately going out to the Pacific Northwest to pursue the smoked food world, or at least learn more about…
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
- ▶ 10:46 Lara Merriken Yes, so there's a school in Seattle, Washington, and one in Portland, Oregon, and naturopathic medicine, and I thought, I'm gonna practice that, which covers all natural medicine, nutrition, acupuncture, everything, and that's what I… 5 times in the scene
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 42:46 Jeremy Stoppelman Can we get it in Seattle?
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott
- ▶ 33:49 Seth Tibbott I mean, PCC up in, uh, Seattle was another one that embraced it.
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer
- ▶ 32:53 George Zimmer We're in Seattle, Portland, Dallas, Sacramento, and Houston.
- ▶ 37:01 George Zimmer One of my regional managers had dinner with me and said, you know, George, I went into a few tuxedo stores, he was in Seattle, and he said, you know, this is exactly what we do, fit people in clothing.
Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes
- ▶ 44:02 unnamed speaker Senegal, you got to call him on a Saturday morning in Seattle. 4 times in the scene
Bonobos: Andy Dunn
- ▶ 13:29 Andy Dunn I had a summer, um, road trip that I took with my parents after graduation, and I sat down with them, and I said, hey, I have this offer from a venture capital firm, which was a firm up in Seattle called Maveron, and I said, but I don't…
- ▶ 1:05:12 Guy Raz Hey, thanks so much for sticking around, because it's time now for How You Built That, and today's story starts in Seattle, where Amy and Brady King run a construction company together.
Remembering Herb Kelleher
- ▶ 24:06 Herb Kelleher And, you know, if you have a shoe factory that, that fails in Seattle, as an example, uh, you can't within hours transport that shoe factory to Chattanooga, Tennessee to compete there. 2 times in the scene
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken
- ▶ 9:49 Lara Merriken Yes, so there's a school in Seattle, Washington, and one in Portland, Oregon, and naturopathic medicine, and I thought, I'm gonna practice that, which covers all natural medicine, nutrition, acupuncture, everything, and that's what I… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 Lara Merriken I went hiking, and I was just kind of eating a trail mix, and thinking of food and raw foods, and thinking about moving to Seattle, and all of a sudden, I'm on this mountain, and this light bulb goes off for me, and I think,
Live Episode! Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams: Jeni Britton Bauer
Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz
- ▶ 0:42 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a poor kid from the projects in Brooklyn turned a small coffee company in Seattle into the third largest restaurant chain in the world. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:59 Howard Schultz And unbeknownst to me, on a trip to San Francisco to see our largest customer, which was Macy's at the time, on the way back from California, I stopped in Seattle because it was a small coffee company called Starbucks selling this product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 Guy Raz And you come back into Seattle and you say, guys, we have got to do this, it's going to be huge, and they say? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:35 Howard Schultz I signed that lease with a developer in Seattle, a very famous guy here locally called Martin Selig. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:40 Howard Schultz And I, I was like, um, I just, I can remember that moment as if my, the world had just ended, because I knew who it was, he told me, and the person at the time, there were three business titans in Seattle, and he was one of them, and they…
- ▶ 26:17 Guy Raz In just a moment, Howard Schultz explains how Starbucks spread from Seattle to the East Coast, and then all around the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:16 Howard Schultz If we're going to be a national and a global company, we have to go somewhere, and Japan had a direct flight from Seattle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:45 Guy Raz This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Benaroya Hall in Seattle.
Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher (2016)
- ▶ 23:51 Herb Kelleher And, you know, if you have a shoe factory that, that fails in Seattle, as an example, uh, you can't within hours transport that shoe factory to Chattanooga, Tennessee to compete there. 2 times in the scene
Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid
Radio One: Cathy Hughes (2017)
Kickstarter: Perry Chen
Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones
TRX: Randy Hetrick
Instacart: Apoorva Mehta
- ▶ 2:20 Guy Raz He landed a job in Seattle working on supply chain for Amazon.
- ▶ 3:27 Apoorva Mehta And so, I started to go to these tech meetups in Seattle, and I remember the first one that I went to, they had invited a bunch of these tech luminaries to the meetup to speak to us. 2 times in the scene
AOL: Steve Case
Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher
- ▶ 23:27 Herb Kelleher And, you know, if you have a shoe factory that, that fails in Seattle, as an example, you can't, within hours, transport that shoe factory to Chattanooga, Tennessee to compete there. 2 times in the scene
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