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NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company May 18, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 5:04 Guy Raz Jensen Wang was born in Taiwan in the early 19 sixties.
  • ▶ 21:02 Guy Raz By this point, you had already started working with TSMC in Taiwan, because initially, your chips were made in Europe, I think. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:20 Guy Raz It's called Defending Taiwan by a writer named Ake Freeman, and he paints a scenario of a possible conflict, hot conflict, ah, where, you know, all of a sudden Taiwan is somehow invaded or occupied, whatever you want to call it, right? 2 times in the scene

Advice Line: Tapping AI as a Resource for Your Business Jan 1, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:43 Guy Raz Right, and for people who don't know that story, he sells, he started out by selling Asian, home delivered products like Asian food products, and now it's, you know, all kinds and different, you know, not just Chinese, but Korean, and…

Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire. Sep 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:52 Guy Raz That credit goes to Gino Tsai in Taiwan along with his partner Robert Chen, but Carlton helped launch the Razor in the U.S., and he knew how to make it a craze because he'd been chasing toy crazes for years.

Vizio: William Wang Apr 14, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 3:30 Guy Raz William Wong was born in the early 19 sixties in Taiwan.
  • ▶ 6:27 William Wang It's the biggest consumed electronic company in Taiwan. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:10 Guy Raz You knew where the factories were in Taiwan. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:31 Guy Raz You're about to fly back, Singapore Airlines flight, you're in Taiwan, and you're gonna fly back to Los Angeles.
  • ▶ 42:22 William Wang I, I found the right factory in Taiwan.

Advice Line with Tony Lamb of Kona Ice Jul 11, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:29 Zach Dietz So I convinced my girlfriend to quit her job and, uh, join me and travel in Asia, and we were in Taiwan, and we were at a craft fair, and I'm not a really crafty guy, but when I saw this stand of all these felted creatures, and I saw that… 3 times in the scene

ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko Jun 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:28 Marc Ecko We were making in Taiwan, we were making in China, we were making in a bunch of places.

Weee!: Larry Liu Mar 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:38 Guy Raz But you can also find staples like dish soap from Taiwan or vinegar from China.

The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2 Feb 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:52 Tristan Harris But I was just talking to the digital minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang, and she's talking about the need for authenticated, privileged messages.

Priority Bicycles: Dave Weiner Nov 13, 2023 · 6 mentions

Manduka: Peter Sterios Apr 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:38 Peter Sterios Whatever the United States is doing, it's gonna track internationally at some point, and that's what's happened, that, that the growth started happening in the strangest of places, especially in Taiwan or in Japan, and then I realized that… 2 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust Apr 28, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:08 Lloyd Armbrust In, you know, Taiwan, uh, in India and, uh, got relationships with folks on WhatsApp.
  • ▶ 26:03 Lloyd Armbrust And I called our, our manufacturing partner and, and, uh, actually the manufacturer, the chip in, in Taiwan. 3 times in the scene

Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim Jul 5, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:12 Ahmed Rahim Well, it's a to-go culture, so you want something that you can take with you, um, where a lot of places they'll actually sit, and obviously in this time where everything is on the run, yeah, the ceremony of tea you can still find if you go…

UPPAbaby: Bob and Lauren Monahan Mar 29, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:17 Guy Raz And, and I guess you went to Taiwan to visit a manufacturing facility, and was this related to the gate idea that you, you went to Taiwan to sort of 2 times in the scene

How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur Mar 25, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:40 Vivian Ku Heinen Crane, you know, it has a very heavy northern Chinese influence on the menu, um, because you have my maternal side, they went from mainland China to Taiwan 4 times in the scene

Boxed: Chieh Huang Feb 22, 2021 · 1 mention

Author and Podcaster: Tim Ferriss Dec 21, 2020 · 1 mention

Rad Power Bikes: Mike Radenbaugh Sep 7, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:17 Mike Radenbaugh So we already had bikes being built in Taiwan and starting to build bikes in other parts of Asia, outside of mainland China.
  • ▶ 59:55 Mike Radenbaugh So basically all of our employees across our factories in Taiwan and China and Southeast Asia, they were impacted first.

How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster Sep 3, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:28 Guy Raz Anyway, since then, Luke's Lobster has gone through the many stages of a restaurant during COVID, which meant furloughing and temporarily closing more than 30 restaurants in the US, Taiwan, and Japan.
  • ▶ 8:34 Guy Raz Now you've got locations in Japan and Taiwan.

Tatcha: Vicky Tsai Jul 13, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:13 Guy Raz Both her mom and dad came to the U.S. from Taiwan, and after high school, Vicky went to UT Austin before transferring to Wellesley, the Women's Liberal Arts College in Massachusetts.

Impossible Foods: Pat Brown May 11, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:14 Pat Brown I was a chronic cutter of classes, and I mean, when I was in Taiwan, we, uh, my classes were in a, a, a three-story building that had this kind of, um, concrete grill work on the, on the one side of the building.

Belkin International: Chet Pipkin May 13, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 29:48 Chet Pipkin There was a moment, I think around 1985, when the person who was working in reception came and said, hey, there's somebody here to see you, and, um, the person was coming to see us from a manufacturing company in Taiwan, and it was the… 4 times in the scene

Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley Apr 29, 2019 · 2 mentions

Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019) Mar 25, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:51 Rod Canion The chairman of the company, Ben Rosen, thought we ought to move very quickly and so quickly that, in fact, we ought to go buy a product from a Taiwanese or a Japanese or a Korean supplier.

Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017) Nov 13, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:33 Dave Weiner We had our bikes produced, and they were on the water on their way over from Taiwan when customs took our containers and held them for an undetermined amount of time while they inspected them.

Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid Aug 21, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:39 Guy Raz A textile mill in Taiwan that used coffee grounds to make fabric. 2 times in the scene

Live Episode! Beyond Meat: Ethan Brown Feb 16, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 Ethan Brown I would order the stuff out of Taiwan, and then I would give myself 60 days to get the money together to actually pay for it once I got to the port.
  • ▶ 11:16 Ethan Brown A soy, texturized piece of soy that I thought was quite close to muscle, and so I was bringing that in from Taiwan through Baltimore and selling it into Whole Foods in the Mid-Atlantic area. 2 times in the scene

Zappos: Tony Hsieh Jan 23, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:06 Dave Weiner We had our bikes produced, and they were on the water on their way over from Taiwan, when
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