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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TOMS comes up
Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- ▶ 13:34 Missy Tannen Um, similar to like a Tom's model where they would have a give back or a donation as part of their, um,
- ▶ 23:28 Guy Raz Once you started to gather all this, this kind of, you know, information, you were paying attention to the Toms and other DTC companies that were sort of, quote unquote, social enterprises.
Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
- ▶ 36:31 Scott Svenson The one I would offer is Tom's shoes. 2 times in the scene
Thrive Market: Nick Green
- ▶ 49:23 Nick Green Tom Shoes was another LA company doing that.
Aviator Nation: Paige Mycoskie
- ▶ 6:54 Guy Raz Those are details that I did not get from my interview with your brother, who I'm now going to reveal is the founder of Tom's Shoes, and we're going to talk about that in a few minutes, but Blake was on our show, and we told the story of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:25 Guy Raz Starting Tom's, which would become a huge business, of course.
- ▶ 1:02:27 Guy Raz But I wonder, you look at a brand like, let's say Tom's, your brother's, the company he started, and he's not involved anymore, it was sold.
- ▶ 1:05:19 Guy Raz When I interviewed your brother, he was still very much involved in Tom's, and then, of course, it was sold, and, and he's not involved anymore.
- ▶ 1:07:53 Guy Raz Paige actually designed the logo for Blake's company, Tom's. 2 times in the scene
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker
Vuori: Joe Kudla
HIBT Lab! Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 16:52 Davis Smith I was inspired by Tom's shoes.
- ▶ 26:33 Guy Raz Like there've been stories about Tom's shoes. 2 times in the scene
Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
- ▶ 28:45 David Heath I think Tom's was in their fifth year of business and, like, growing like crazy, taking over the world. 2 times in the scene
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 37:51 Davis Smith I was inspired by Tom's shoes and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:31 Davis Smith You know, we look at Tom's shoes, for example, and I think they learned some really valuable lessons about impact and about there were some unintended consequences as they were distributing their shoes around the world, disrupting local,…
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
- ▶ 0:00 Guy Raz Okay, so at some point in the past decade, you or someone you know probably owned a simple pair of cloth shoes, and there's a good chance those shoes may have been Tom's.
- ▶ 2:16 Guy Raz And as for his best-known business, Tom's Shoes, we're not even gonna get there for a while, so hang tight.
- ▶ 21:50 Blake Mycoskie You know, I never think, I mean, I never thought, like, one business was going to be the rest of my life, probably until Tom's.
- ▶ 22:02 Guy Raz Blake Mycoskie, when we come back, how a random conversation in a wine bar in South America led Blake to Tom's and his biggest business yet.
- ▶ 27:50 Blake Mycoskie So we got some ideas, and they prototyped them really rapidly, because they were small little organizations, and, and we made a couple hundred pairs of, like, prototypes, and, uh, and the name Tom's was birthed or, or created down there… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:17 Blake Mycoskie Anyways, I'm at American Airlines, I'm checking in, using the kiosk, and the girl next to me, she's probably mid-thirties, uh, she's wearing a red pair of Toms. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:16 Guy Raz You know, I mean, I'm like a total, I'm like three years behind everybody else, and I think the first time I heard about Tom's was in 2009, this commercial that I saw. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:46 Guy Raz But like, I'm wondering about something that happened around 2011, 2012, um, cause you, you decided to just take a step back from, from, from the whole company and just, just like drop off the map. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:26 Guy Raz I mean, I've seen you refer to Tom's as a movement rather than a business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:02 Guy Raz Um, I mean, very different from what you did with Tom's, right? 8 times in the scene
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
- ▶ 1:46 Guy Raz And as for his best-known business, Tom's Shoes, we're not even gonna get there for a while, so hang tight.
- ▶ 21:21 Blake Mycoskie You know, I never think, I mean, I never thought, like, one business was going to be the rest of my life, probably until Tom's.
- ▶ 21:32 Guy Raz Blake Mycoskie, when we come back, how a random conversation in a wine bar in South America led Blake to Tom's and his biggest business yet.
- ▶ 27:19 Blake Mycoskie So we got some ideas, and they prototyped them really rapidly, because they were small little organizations, and, and we made a couple hundred pairs of, like, prototypes, and, uh, and the name Tom's was birthed, or, or created down there… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:46 Blake Mycoskie Anyways, I'm at American Airlines, I'm checking in, using the kiosk, and the girl next to me, she's probably mid-thirties, uh, she's wearing a red pair of toms. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:18 Guy Raz I mean, so, everyone who bought a pair of Toms knew, more or less knew that when they were buying a pair, you guys would give a pair to a child in need. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:45 Blake Mycoskie I didn't feel as connected to the mission of Tom's, and, and I was questioning, like, is this something I want to do the rest of my life, or, like, my other entrepreneur gigs, is it time to go and do something different, and, and so I just… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:49 Guy Raz Over the years, people have said, look, you know, this might sound like a great business model, but actually, TOMS is disrupting markets in these countries, and, and they're actually not helping alleviate poverty, and, you know, they're… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:31 Guy Raz Um, I mean, very different from what you did with Tom's, right? 7 times in the scene