Sweden, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 27Bobby Trussell 18Kathy Hannun 4Patricia Ziegler 2Heather Thorkelson 2Gordon Segal 2Selina Tobaccowala 1Scott Farquhar 1Niklas Zennström 1Mark Constantine 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sweden comes up
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz And for John Gabbert, that insight happened on a trip to Sweden. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:21 John Gabbert And at that point, I think they had a couple stores in Sweden and one in Germany, maybe.
Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements
- ▶ 21:55 Heather Thorkelson I'm calling from Gothenburg, Sweden, and I am the founder of Minimal Impact Cruises. 2 times in the scene
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 3:59 Guy Raz Niklas Zenstrom was and still is a serial entrepreneur who grew up in Uppsala, Sweden. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 Guy Raz I'm gonna get a lot of hate mail from Sweden, that he, that maybe he was the guy that you could, like, start something with. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:50 Niklas Zennström Um, Spotify created an amazing kind of aura around them, because it wasn't available in the U.S., but first was only available in Sweden, and become very, very popular, you know, filling the void off the, off the Casa, and off the kind of…
Banana Republic: Mel and Patricia Ziegler
- ▶ 34:15 Patricia Ziegler Um, so we were looking for more European or foreign things, and we found a box of belts from Argentina and, um, some Swedish gas mask bags. 2 times in the scene
Sonos: John MacFarlane
- ▶ 39:52 John MacFarlane So while Spotify was available in Sweden, uh, it wasn't available anywhere else.
Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
- ▶ 59:54 unnamed speaker You're like Sweden.
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
- ▶ 6:39 Guy Raz And I think the way your family eventually did get out is essentially you got an exit visa to Sweden, but I mean, it was complicated, because I think at the time, the Hungarian government wouldn't allow entire families to leave the country…
- ▶ 9:29 Guy Raz Um, so you, you stay in Stockholm in Sweden for, for a few months, and then I guess around 1958, uh, your family's eventually able to make its way to the US, because I guess you're, you're like, your dad had a sister in New York, and, and…
Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
- ▶ 28:18 Jeff Raider I think ours comes from Sweden.
Tapping the heat beneath your feet with Kathy Hannun of Dandelion Energy
- ▶ 0:44 Guy Raz It's a system, by the way, widely used in Sweden, and if she can get enough people to adopt it in the U.S., it could have a massive impact on reducing carbon emissions, and it could save people thousands of dollars a year.
- ▶ 4:39 Guy Raz Like Sweden, where this exists already, where people use this technology.
- ▶ 9:00 Kathy Hannun Um, we experimented with a few different types of rigs, but we ended up taking a trip to Sweden, which you mentioned. 4 times in the scene
Houzz: Adi Tatarko
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
- ▶ 20:12 Scott Farquhar Um, it was a company out of Sweden that produced software and we'd been using it previously
Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
- ▶ 34:23 Mark Constantine They had franchises in Sweden multiplying.
Tempur-Pedic: Bobby Trussell (2018)
- ▶ 3:20 Guy Raz In fact, when he discovered it on a trip to Sweden, he knew absolutely nothing about foam, nothing about mattresses.
- ▶ 14:59 Bobby Trussell and he said, one day, I know a, uh, Swedish horse chiropractor who knew a company in Sweden that makes an air cleaner that can clean the horses' stalls. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 Bobby Trussell And, um, he told me that they had just, uh, launched it in Sweden the previous month, and that they wanted to go worldwide with it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Guy Raz He is a, uh, a Swedish guy who is starting a mattress company in Sweden, and he's seeing some success, and he agrees to give you a horse trainer, a guy whose entire life is in the horse business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:33 Bobby Trussell And we, we retained our, our 20% for our U.S. group. 3 times in the scene
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal (2017)
- ▶ 15:18 Gordon Segal There were many people who had doubts, but, you know, we had letters of credit, we had ability to buy, we found us an agent in Sweden who knew a lot of people who helped us, introduced us to factories, and, um, I don't, you know, they…
Evite: Selina Tobaccowala
- ▶ 47:42 Selina Tobaccowala So, there were a couple factors, but the biggest was that Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation, and it was, for me, the people and the culture is the most important thing, and it was very clear to me that the culture of the team that was…
Tempur-Pedic: Bobby Trussell
- ▶ 2:26 Guy Raz In fact, when he discovered it on a trip to Sweden, he knew absolutely nothing about foam, nothing about mattresses.
- ▶ 14:04 Bobby Trussell and he said, one day, I know a, uh, Swedish horse chiropractor who knew a company in Sweden that makes an air cleaner that can clean the horses' stalls. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:00 Bobby Trussell And, um, he told me that they had just, uh, launched it in Sweden the previous month, and that they wanted to go worldwide with it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:05 Guy Raz He is a, uh, a Swedish guy who is starting a mattress company in Sweden, and, and he's seeing some success, and he 2 times in the scene
Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz
- ▶ 10:55 Howard Schultz And I had no idea what the product really was, met the person who was in charge of moving from Sweden to New York, and he and I made a immediate connection, and he became a lifelong friend and mentor to me, and hired me.
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal
- ▶ 14:52 Gordon Segal There were many people who had doubts, but, you know, we had letters of credit, we had ability to buy, we found us an agent in Sweden who knew a lot of people who helped us introduce us to factories, and I don't, you know, they believed in…