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Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 29:24 Michael Dubin They hope something's gonna break the way Twitter did in 2006 or whatever when, you know, and that was when Twitter kind of had its big moment was at South by and it became a thing. 2 times in the scene
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 34:35 Nirav Tolia There's Twitter for people whom we find interesting, but there was no network comprised of what we believed was one of the most important communities of them all.
(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
- ▶ 51:50 Ben Chestnut We did a t-shirt giveaway and it just went berserk on Twitter. 2 times in the scene
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 51:23 Hamish McKenzie Maybe they'd have a smaller following on Twitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:36 Guy Raz Less than 10 years later, he buys, of course, Twitter, which becomes X. 19 times in the scene
The Cronut and Dominique Ansel Bakery: Dominique Ansel
- ▶ 46:44 Dominique Ansel Every day, like, it was not, it was not a good thing, you know, until someone, you know, reached out to, uh, to me on Twitter, and they were comparing the connect line to, uh, the line that people go to to wait for food in New York City…
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
- ▶ 1:21 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a college dropout from Nebraska moved to California, started two major blogging platforms, and somewhere along the way, co-founded a little company called Twitter. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Ev brings Blogger back to life, and then heads into a whole new venture, which does not go anywhere until it turns into Twitter.
- ▶ 30:39 Ev Williams Actually, nine 11, the day nine 11 happened, I actually spent the day aggregating, um, because there wasn't really a real-time search, and of course there's no Twitter or anything, but people are writing about their experiences, including…
- ▶ 35:04 Ev Williams Biz Stone, later co-founder of Twitter
- ▶ 41:10 Ev Williams I do remember a conversation where at first there was a version of, of what became Twitter presented that had audio, and I remember asking, what if it didn't have the audio piece?
- ▶ 43:24 Guy Raz And, and you guys had already called it Twitter by this point. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:09 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Ev makes the right moves to grow Twitter, but then fails to realize that he's no longer the right guy to run it.
- ▶ 49:10 Guy Raz And, and Twitter is this thing that you really start to pursue. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:16 Guy Raz Can I ask you about the broader idea of Twitter? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:51 Guy Raz Because you, because basically, you were running Odeo, but it was clear that Twitter was the product now in this, in this bigger company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:39 Ev Williams I didn't even think it was possible, and I went from owning 100% of this company to being kicked out. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:06 Ev Williams Medium, the seeds of medium were really planted while I was still at Twitter, and the initial genesis is Biz and I, Biz who came over from Twitter, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:54 Guy Raz I mean, you're in your, you know, early fifties, and, you know, you've achieved incredible success and built amazing, well-known brands, blogger, Twitter, medium.
- ▶ 1:13:49 Guy Raz That's Ev Williams, founder of Blogger and Medium, and co-founder of Twitter.
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
- ▶ 9:05 Tristan Harris In fact, in our AI dilemma talk, we quote the co-founder of Anthropic, Jack Clark, who said that unless you're scanning Twitter every single day for all these updates, you are missing updates that are critical for national security and…
Manduka: Peter Sterios
HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti
HIBT Lab! New Culture: Matt Gibson and Inja Radman
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
- ▶ 6:12 Guy Raz I guess while you were a student, you started, or you, like, built your own search engine that was, like, designed to do, like, internal searches in, like, Facebook and Twitter, like, yeah.
- ▶ 43:16 Guy Raz If you want to follow us on Twitter, our account is at How I Built This, and mine is at Guy Raz, and on Instagram, I'm at Guy.
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
HIBT Lab! Saysh: Wes and Allyson Felix
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
HIBT Lab! Biobot Analytics: Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout (2020)
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
HIBT Lab! Immunai: Noam Solomon
HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker
Guayakí Yerba Mate: David Karr and Chris Mann
HIBT Lab! Goodr: Jasmine Crowe-Houston
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya
Bluemercury: Marla and Barry Beck
Culver's: Craig Culver
HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
- ▶ 53:27 Wylie Aronow And he could, we didn't know him at the time, of course, you know, but we followed each other on Twitter, and, uh, he reached out to us. 2 times in the scene
Noom: Saeju Jeong
HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 43:53 Donnel Baird So yes, we can complain and call our senators and, or post on Twitter or whatever, and we can go out and buy an electric vehicle.
HIBT Lab! The Sorry Girls: Kelsey MacDermaid and Becky Wright
HIBT Lab! Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company: Mark Cuban
- ▶ 7:49 Mark Cuban One of the great things about Twitter is there's always somebody willing to challenge you.
HIBT Lab! Burn Rate: Andy Dunn
Nature’s Path: Arran and Ratana Stephens
HIBT Lab! UNLESS Collective: Eric Liedtke
PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
HIBT Lab! WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 27:11 Miguel McKelvey You know, you see people who might say something on Twitter and all of a sudden they're canceled, you know, and it,
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
HIBT Lab! Colin and Samir: Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry
Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Discord: Jason Citron
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 48:02 Otis Chandler You know, we, we weren't like Twitter, which kind of exploded over two years into a huge company.
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes (2019)
Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 22:07 Chris Zarou I, I was managing an artist, a rapper, out of Philly at the time, and this was, it was very early days of, of Twitter, you know, and I probably at the time followed 25, 30 people, and I was sitting in front of my computer, and his DJ, the,… 2 times in the scene
Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison (2019)
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 33:53 Gary Vaynerchuk And I also was using Twitter and Facebook and MySpace to promote the show.
- ▶ 43:25 Gary Vaynerchuk It was a single video I made titled, Facebook should worry about this thing called Twitter. 5 times in the scene
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 39:07 Robert Reffkin So I saw this guy who had sold one company to Google, another company to Twitter, and I was like, this guy's a magician.
- ▶ 1:17:14 Guy Raz And if you want to follow us on Twitter, we're at Guy Raz or at How I Built This.
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 47:03 Ben Chestnut Yeah, um, we were trying new things, like, you know, fun branding stuff, trying this new thing called Twitter in 2008. 3 times in the scene
Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- ▶ 56:00 Jennifer Fitzgerald Uh, Francois, I think, tweeted at the reporter, uh, who was writing a column, I think he was talking on Twitter about writing a column about disability insurance.
Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth
Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
How I Built Resilience: Lindsay Peoples Wagner of The Cut
- ▶ 16:58 Lindsay Peoples Wagner I think finding your specific voice is really important, because I think Twitter has made people want to write for Twitter, and want to go viral, um, want, want a piece to do really well on Twitter, and, and I want writers, especially… 2 times in the scene
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
How I Built Resilience: Ethan Diamond of Bandcamp
- ▶ 0:19 Guy Raz Pacific, 12 Eastern on the How I Built This Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn pages, or on NPR's YouTube page to hear the live conversation and maybe even ask a question.
- ▶ 10:23 Ethan Diamond We hear all the time, mostly through Twitter, that, you know, the
Food52: Amanda Hesser
- ▶ 39:21 Amanda Hesser No, it was going to be this, a dynamic timeline, where you could, like, like, hook in your Twitter feed, your, you know, your, any, like, now, you could hook in your Instagram feed, your, what, your, the news sources that you read, and you…
- ▶ 46:48 Amanda Hesser And one of the things that really interested us in, in the times was this, was the old archive and how the parallels between what was happening on Twitter and what was happening in the newspaper in the
Siete Family Foods: Miguel and Veronica Garza
How I Built Resilience: Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves
Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019)
- ▶ 37:40 Melanie Perkins Every single day I, like, look through Twitter and I see so many touching stories of, you know, that one philosophy of that design should be accessible to everyone is actually being put into practice and having real world implications.
How I Built Resilience: Troy Carter of Q&A (June, 2020)
Norma Kamali: Norma Kamali
Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender
How I Built Resilience: Morra Aarons-Mele of Women Online
- ▶ 15:49 Morra Aarons-Mele The other thing, this sounds silly, but we joke about doom scrolling on Twitter.
Author and Podcaster: Tim Ferriss
Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill
Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole
Dropbox: Drew Houston
How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things
McBride Sisters Wine (Part 2 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
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