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YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
- ▶ 11:34 Roy Seiders Um, you know, the great thing about the Texas coast, there's just thousands of acres of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:07 Roy Seiders So I, uh, I got a hold of the distributor that had been importing them into the US, and I said, hey, I think I could sell some of these coolers around Texas. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:10 Guy Raz So, you guys go back to Texas.
- ▶ 47:18 Guy Raz Like Texas, Louisiana, Alabama.
Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor
- ▶ 18:38 Shereen Tippett I'm calling from Houston, Texas, where it is a thousand degrees, and I have a business called Honey Bespoke Stationery and Paper Goods.
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
- ▶ 35:51 Joey Shamah Um, and it was actually HEB, which is a high-volume supermarket chain in Texas, that said, we're going to try it.
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
Justin’s Nut Butter: Justin Gold. He Was Waiting Tables, Then...He Reinvented Peanut Butter.
- ▶ 36:40 Justin Gold Ours are from primarily Texas and New Mexico, because it's a drier climate.
- ▶ 47:23 Guy Raz And you're now getting into stores all over like Colorado and Texas and New Mexico.
- ▶ 1:01:40 Justin Gold So when I would walk back into a Houston, Texas, Whole Foods, I hadn't been in a year, I would have the names of all the people I'd met a year ago, and I'd memorize the names before I walked in the store, and I'd write a description of…
KIND bars: Daniel Lubetzky. From peace in the Middle East to a $5 billion snack bar
- ▶ 6:13 Daniel Lubetzky He saw his new life as an opportunity for him to bring light to the world, and he always, even today, if you come to San Antonio, Texas, where we moved to after when I was 16 years old, people, when they see my last name, they say, oh,…
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
- ▶ 43:07 Antonio Swad Louisville, Texas.
- ▶ 1:09:57 Guy Raz Okay, so you are expanding Pizza Patron, and you have the finances to do it, because you've got the, you know, you've got the capital, and it's growing mainly, I think, in Texas and a couple of other states, um, and you get, and again,…
- ▶ 1:14:04 Guy Raz I think about, like, 70 or 80 stores, mostly in Texas and, and Arizona.
Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
- ▶ 6:36 Michelle Pusateri So all of California, up in the Pacific Northwest, and then some in Texas.
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
- ▶ 0:52 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Matt O'Hare was inspired to buy a Texas farm, 20 hens, and some trailers from Craigslist, and built a nearly one billion dollar brand, Vital Farms. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 Guy Raz He decided to skip college and made his way to Houston, Texas, when he was around 20 years old.
- ▶ 38:10 Matt O'Hayer Well, yeah, and there's seasonality to it also, because, um, you know, in the summertime in Texas, especially, you know, we had, everything dies. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali of Chomps
- ▶ 29:06 Zachary Bonder Can you ship to Texas?
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
- ▶ 2:18 Mark Cuban We, we have a, um, robotics-driven, um, manufacturing facility in Dallas, Texas, and we're making sterile injectables.
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyer's
- ▶ 4:15 Monica Nassif She's from Texas, and she's
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
- ▶ 33:55 Tanner McCraney And so our first trade show was in Dallas, Texas. 2 times in the scene
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 24:29 Michael Dubin And, I mean, you know, this was real street hustle at the time, and like, you know, you buy, you buy, you do your own SEM in your house, and I still remember our first customer, it was Imran Charnania of Houston, Texas.
Advice Line with Todd Graves of Raising Cane's
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements
- ▶ 35:15 Ryan Burkhardt I'm calling from Austin, Texas. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
- ▶ 28:38 Tess Milholen I am based near San Antonio, Texas, and I'm the founder of HerHouse.
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- ▶ 2:25 Guy Raz A few weeks ago, I flew out to Texas to see how these two people changed the city of Waco.
- ▶ 20:25 Joanna Gaines And so that's, so every time he saw me, he called me Baylor.
- ▶ 1:02:47 Guy Raz Your lives were now on television, so people started to come to Waco, Texas to maybe to see you guys, just wanted to see you at your desk or at your office, and then you had people saying, hey, I need this job finished. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:52 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, one of the most powerful dealmakers in TV pays a visit to Waco, Texas.
- ▶ 1:10:29 Guy Raz And the thing that struck me when I was there was when I was younger, Waco, Texas was associated with the Branch Davidians and David Koresh and that horrible thing that happens. 3 times in the scene
Poppi: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. From Farmers Market Vinegar Drink to $2B Soda Sensation
- ▶ 3:37 Guy Raz In less than 10 years, the brand went from a mom and pop curiosity at a Texas farmer's market to a two billion dollar sensation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Allison Ellsworth Other people are interested in it, and then soon after that, we went home for Thanksgiving to Texas, and my sister and brother-in-law and my family, like, everyone's there, and I bring it with me, and I just think everyone's gonna be just…
Advice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty
- ▶ 17:09 Abby Rosalier I'm calling from Dallas, Texas, and I'm the founder and owner of Abby Rose, which is basically an online custom phone case business.
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
Don Vultaggio: AriZona Beverage Company - The Snap Decision That Outsmarted Snapple
- ▶ 58:36 Don Vultaggio Maybe sell in Texas.
Exclusive Update: The Chef Who Shocked the Culinary World and Why He’s Changing Course Again—Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park
- ▶ 11:43 Daniel Humm I remember sort of early on the cattle rancher from Texas, and, uh,
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
- ▶ 19:37 Mike Rypka Um, and so they were kind of using my expertise and skills from what I had already gained and all the different places I'd worked, um, to be able to kind of create this very innovative, fun menu to life in Houston, Texas, um, for their… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Mike Rypka Tacos every, on every corner just about in Austin, and so I sort of did this taco tour all around Texas and around the border towns, and what I realized was like, man, there's some great tacos, but they're all kind of the same.
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 35:28 Josh Hochschuler For Texas. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:59 Guy Raz You're in, a few Costcos in Texas are doing these roadshows. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:34 Josh Hochschuler The bad news is it's tomorrow morning, like eight 30 in the morning, and we're sitting in Dallas, Texas.
Advice Line with Perry Chen of Kickstarter
- ▶ 5:11 Jesse Hodge My name is Jesse Hodge from Dallas, Texas, and I'm the co-founder of ModTab.
Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
- ▶ 4:46 Leigh Keith So California, Utah, Texas, Arizona.
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
- ▶ 2:38 Guy Raz He was just a guy who grew up in Texas, and he thought cowboy boots were either too expensive or too cheap.
- ▶ 3:39 Guy Raz And perhaps unsurprisingly, Texas would become a big part of Paul's identity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:19 Guy Raz That guy comes into the office with his Texas cowboy boots. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:33 Guy Raz And you're going to move to Texas. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:31 Paul Hedrick And I said, I want it to be a Texas-based name, and I want it to come from something real. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:06 Guy Raz So, I think by the end of that year, of 2019, you had opened a total of five stores, and I think, not all of them were in Texas, right?
- ▶ 59:26 Paul Hedrick So you could be open. 3 times in the scene
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
- ▶ 42:23 Monica Nassif Texas.
The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
- ▶ 4:08 Guy Raz Kip grew up in Texas and Sharon in Louisiana. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:30 Kip Tindell Uh, my, my, my father had a birthday party, and I was the bartender, and you know, all these Texas oil men who were very distinctly not our target customer.
- ▶ 32:07 Guy Raz So the store, the stores are expanding initially in Texas.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 18:00 Rod Cuthbert There was no particular reason why Sabre, based in Dallas, Texas, should contract with a company in Sydney, Australia.
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
- ▶ 2:48 Oney Colston I'm in Fort Worth, Texas.
Advice Line with Brett Schulman of CAVA
- ▶ 4:00 Devin Strahan I'm calling from the great state of Houston, Texas. 2 times in the scene
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- ▶ 54:52 Bayard Winthrop So, um, the big regions of cotton production are California, Texas, and the Southeast, um, North and South Carolina.
Advice Line with Sarah Kauss of S'well
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
- ▶ 6:27 Manish Chandra And so when I arrived, I went to UT Austin, arrived in Texas, and the reality was exactly the opposite. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:24 Manish Chandra So if you were shipping from Minnesota to Texas, and you were shipping
3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
- ▶ 0:48 Guy Raz Fast forward to today, and the company has built dozens of these houses in Texas and in Mexico, with hundreds more in the planning stages.
- ▶ 4:29 Jason Ballard We ordered every book on three-D printing off of Amazon, started meeting with other three-D printing companies just to learn and soak up the knowledge really fast, and we were introduced to another gentleman here in Texas that kept coming… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:41 Guy Raz You're in Texas, which is a, um, tends to be a pretty friendly environment to, to business, um, and a, a less regulated environment than California, where I am. 2 times in the scene
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
Aviator Nation: Paige Mycoskie
- ▶ 4:28 Guy Raz Paige Mycoskie grew up in the 19 eighties in Texas.
- ▶ 21:31 Paige Mycoskie Selling the clothes, and I, and I just felt like I needed to get into the craft, like I needed to just be sewing, I needed to see what I could really do, you know, so I went back to Texas for May and June of 2006, and I pretty much did not… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Guy Raz So after a few months in Texas, presumably you go back to LA.
- ▶ 34:25 Guy Raz So you went back to Texas to do this?
- ▶ 52:02 Paige Mycoskie Maybe coming out of small town, Texas, whatever, maybe I was naive or something.
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
Unlocking the renewable energy revolution with Ramya Swaminathan of Malta Inc.
- ▶ 22:19 Guy Raz Like, Texas basically has its own, and then the Western U.S. has its own, the upper Midwest, the South, but they're all these sort of semi-autonomous but interconnected systems, and, and so, and we often hear about how our, our grid system… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:56 Ramya Swaminathan We have built a small pilot in Texas at the Southwest Research Institute.
Yasso: Amanda Klane and Drew Harrington
- ▶ 9:21 Drew Harrington We were the first ones to create it, and we worked with an engineer in Texas that figured out the way to essentially create an inflatable table that had the holes for the cups in it, because it was really no different than an air mattress,… 2 times in the scene
Jack Black Skin Care: Curran and Jeff Dandurand
Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
- ▶ 32:53 Kyle Clark We've commissioned a bunch down the East Coast, and right now we're building a network that connects Texas to Florida.
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
Orgain: Andrew Abraham
- ▶ 21:06 Andrew Abraham And he said, you know, why don't you meet me in Texas? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:14 Andrew Abraham It's one of the biggest natural food shows in the world, and it just so happened to be a few weeks after we came back from Texas, and it just so happened to be 15 minutes from my home. 2 times in the scene
When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
- ▶ 37:42 Chris Urmson For example, we were driving on a freeway in Texas, and another person was driving a car, they dozed off and sideswiped our truck.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League
- ▶ 27:58 Guy Raz Um, but you decide to do this in Austin, in Texas, which obviously is an amazing city.
- ▶ 52:36 Guy Raz You, you opened a new franchise, a few franchises, I think around, around Texas, like in Houston and maybe San Antonio, uh,
- ▶ 54:38 Guy Raz The second will be run by two new partners who want to build well beyond Texas.
Halo Top Ice Cream: Justin Woolverton
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
- ▶ 1:12:11 Jim VandeHei And we created a software that now, you know, hundreds of companies and the mayor of Austin and the school system in Austin, Texas, like tons of people, big companies, small companies, medium companies now use it, uh, HQ and Smart Brevity…
HIBT Lab! Biobot Analytics: Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli
- ▶ 20:57 Newsha Ghaeli So the types of buildings we monitor can range from large office campuses or parks in Texas or, um, California, all the way to skyscrapers in Manhattan.
HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
- ▶ 17:56 Dave Ferguson So a couple years ago we got that exemption for the vehicle that we are today actively operating out in, in California and, and Texas.
Culver's: Craig Culver
- ▶ 55:18 Craig Culver Restaurant that we opened, and, uh, we stuck to that until we opened in Texas, and my sister wanted to open a restaurant in, uh, the Dallas area, and another gentleman who was originally from Chicago was living in Austin. 2 times in the scene
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
- ▶ 13:34 George Zimmer In the McGovern campaign, working in Chicago in the summer of 72, in charge of what was called grassroots fundraising, and I remember I moved to Texas on election day, 1972.
- ▶ 13:52 George Zimmer My father offered me a job in Dallas, repping his line in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:26 George Zimmer Our bank in, uh, Texas called our loan, and so we were put in a, uh, difficult position. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
- ▶ 35:19 Shazi Visram So, yeah, Jessica was my founding partner, and she was our COO, and she was working in Texas at Whole Foods, like, on-site at Whole Foods, basically doing research for them.
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
- ▶ 6:36 Lloyd Armbrust Found a robotic sky in Pflugerville, Texas.
- ▶ 20:52 Lloyd Armbrust Like we, we happened to hire somebody and, um, it, I think it was a referral, uh, from somebody who I think worked at a nail salon and all the nail salons were closed in Texas at the time.
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
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