Spinbrush, every mention
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Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
- ▶ 1:58 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how John Osher went from selling spinning lollipops to inventing the world's cheapest electric toothbrush, the spin brush, and sold it for hundreds of millions of dollars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:27 John Osher So, the name Spin Brush actually came when it was still spinning.
- ▶ 40:33 Guy Raz So you could see right away that the, I mean, Oral-B was still the big, the manual toothbrush was still the big seller, but you could see that these spin brush brushes, at least at, you know, these individual Meijer stores you were going…
- ▶ 43:12 Guy Raz So it's the year 2000, and SpinBrush is rolling out in selected stores like Albertsons and Walmart, and already the numbers are looking really good. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:51 Guy Raz You would basically continue to run spin brush. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:23 Guy Raz They sold it to Church and Wright, or I think who owns it now. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:40 Guy Raz That's serial entrepreneur John Osher, creator of the Spin Brush.