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Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company May 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:45 Guy Raz And by this point, right, like if you wanted to start a makeup brand, um, you could, I mean, there are, there are co-manufacturers all over the U.S. and Switzerland and Japan that make high-end beauty products.

KIND bars: Daniel Lubetzky. From peace in the Middle East to a $5 billion snack bar Apr 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:51 Daniel Lubetzky He's traveling to Loretta a lot, and he's traveling all over the world, because it's a, like, all of his clients are predominantly in Switzerland, because he had the representation, the only duty-free representation in the world for, for…

HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza Feb 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:42 Guy Raz Jean-Luc's Instagram shows him running up and down trails all over the world, and Nico has recently competed in ultra marathons in France, Switzerland, and Thailand.

Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021) Jul 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:20 Rick Steves I was just amazed that we put up with such short vacations, and so it was 22 days in Britain, 22 days in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
  • ▶ 1:03:47 Rick Steves Mirren in Switzerland, and people were lining up to stand on a stump in Mirren to get a photograph with the famous mountain behind them, and they're literally lining up to get this photograph, and then I go to the Cinque Terre in the…

Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie Jun 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:27 Guy Raz Right, because most of the, or most of the, so the high-end luxury beauty brands are made in Switzerland or in Japan, um, some in France, and you are offering the same quality, essentially, but at much lower prices.

Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif Feb 17, 2025 · 3 mentions

On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti Jul 22, 2024 · 23 mentions

  • ▶ 2:50 Guy Raz Besides having no cash and no experience, the founders started their brand in Switzerland, a country better known for watches, bankers, and chocolate than apparel. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:39 Guy Raz Um, but when you were around 18, there's, there's national service requirements in, in Switzerland, and I guess you, you, you had to do some kind of government service around that time for a year or so. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:18 Guy Raz Like, and, and, and again, at a pretty elite level, like as a teenager, I, I read that you were competing in races all over Switzerland and, and, and even beyond, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:57 Guy Raz This is an Ironman race in Switzerland. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:34 Guy Raz And now I think comes kind of a pivotal part of the story, because at this point, uh, Olivier, you're, you're living in a small town in Switzerland, and, and this guy, you know, this is another runner, and, and an engineer, I think his…
  • ▶ 26:37 Olivier Bernhard Even if we don't have a clue how to build a running shoe out of Switzerland, even if we have no clue how to actually, you know, bring this up in scales and everything, let's at least try ourselves.
  • ▶ 31:55 Olivier Bernhard You know, he was super busy building his businesses, having his, uh, his companies already, very successful companies here in Switzerland. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:21 Caspar Coppetti Yeah, we did go to an event, um, before we actually, uh, founded the company, and, and just basically, it was an Ironman event here in Switzerland, and just had about two, 300 runners try the product, and nobody came back indifferent. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:40 Caspar Coppetti Yeah, look, coming out of Switzerland based on a patent innovation, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:57 Caspar Coppetti And, and literally, you know, coming out of Switzerland, like we had very few role models and, and we felt like, yeah, you know, maybe we'll make it, you know, I wouldn't say 10, but I would say probably twenty million was like the end…
  • ▶ 1:02:44 Caspar Coppetti And so, you know, Switzerland's a small place, and through some common acquaintances, we reached out and said, hey, Roger, you know, we really appreciate you wearing our shoes.
  • ▶ 1:10:16 Olivier Bernhard We're, we have only started, you know, we, we have been, especially in the small country of Switzerland, when we came back from the IPO press, you know, said, oh yeah, the sweet funds are going to exit next day, you know, they're going to…
  • ▶ 1:11:38 Guy Raz I mean, you built, not just a brand, you built one of the biggest, now, um, icon, iconic Swiss brand, and you're coming from a country with Rolex and, you know, 2 times in the scene

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020) Dec 18, 2023 · 1 mention

Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings Jun 1, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:10 Guy Raz Tina was born in Switzerland, where she studied graphic design, and not long after she graduated from college, she decided to move to New York City.
  • ▶ 20:09 Guy Raz Um, and I guess also that year, that summer, you went back to Switzerland for the summer, um, and decided to, to like put on a creative mornings event just kind of for fun there. 2 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! Saysh: Wes and Allyson Felix Mar 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:49 Allyson Felix And so here I am like, you know, in Switzerland racing and trying to explain to my professor why I need to take like a final on the road.

HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher Jun 30, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:17 Jan Wurzbacher Plant we built here in Switzerland, and that is taking, that's still an operation, that is taking CO₂ out of the air to then sell the CO₂ to a greenhouse.

Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 · 2 mentions

Eleven Madison Park: Daniel Humm May 3, 2021 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:53 Guy Raz He grew up in Zurich, Switzerland, and had no real interest in food as a kid, even though, he says, his mom was a great home cook. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:19 Daniel Humm I saw this thing in a newspaper advertising small farm looking for a chef, and I applied, and they called me back, and it was a beautiful little inn on top of the mountain overlooking, you know, the Alps, and, uh, it was a very humble… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:43 Guy Raz So, so you're working at this restaurant in Switzerland.

Hinge: Justin McLeod Mar 22, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:21 Justin McLeod Saying, you're a terrible stalker, I don't live in London anymore, I live in Switzerland, my fiancé is not a huge fan of yours, but I'm willing to chat, so he'll be away this weekend if you want to just, like, hop on the phone. 2 times in the scene

Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves Mar 8, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:46 Rick Steves I was just amazed that we put up with such short vacations, and so it was 22 days in Britain, 22 days in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
  • ▶ 1:04:07 Rick Steves I mean, just last year, I was traveling around Europe, and it occurred to me, I went to like four places in a row where there was this Instagram phenomenon, this is, uh, whatever it is, and, uh, I was in Muren in Switzerland, and people…

How I Built Resilience: Taha Bawa of Goodwall Jul 30, 2020 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:29 Guy Raz I spoke with Taha from his company headquarters in Switzerland, where he gave me a rundown of Goodwall's mission.
  • ▶ 4:10 Taha Bawa Both of us were born in Switzerland. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:07 Guy Raz You've got offices in obviously Switzerland, the U.S., Germany, Serbia, the Philippines.
  • ▶ 13:25 Taha Bawa And that leads to a more, you know, a more philosophical discussion on why is there so much debt attached to a college education where, you know, in Switzerland, for example, I paid, um, for my undergraduate, I paid around a thousand…

La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti Jul 20, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:30 Todd Carmichael Well, I mean, one of the first ones was, strangely enough, we met a Swiss guy who owned a farm in Brazil.

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn May 25, 2020 · 1 mention

TRX: Randy Hetrick (2018) Aug 27, 2018 · 1 mention

TRX: Randy Hetrick Jun 26, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:24 Randy Hetrick We became Switzerland, and by that I mean whatever else it is that you do for your exercise, we want to be a part of that, and we've been very successful at, um, at embedding ourselves.
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