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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Unilever comes up
Late July Snacks: Nicole Bernard Dawes. Crackers and Cookies were Failing… Tortilla Chips Saved Them
MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant.
Advice Line with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
- ▶ 48:53 Gregg Renfrew Yeah, like Unilever, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Shichetta, like any of those big brands.
Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- ▶ 1:21:33 Aaron Krause That needs to be a Procter & Gamble, a Unilever, a Clorox, a Henkel, a
Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 0:22 Guy Raz And you'll hear how a viral launch video took Dollar Shave Club from zero to a billion dollar acquisition by Unilever in just five years.
- ▶ 36:22 Guy Raz When we come back after a quick break, Dollar Shave Club expands beyond just razors, and how that expansion put them on Unilever's radar for an acquisition offer.
- ▶ 42:56 Guy Raz 20 16 Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever, reportedly for a billion dollars, ok? 6 times in the scene
Advice Line with Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
- ▶ 21:17 Catherine Shaw Um, she was an early employee at Harry's Grooming and at Siggy's Yogurt, uh, working in product development, operations, and finance, and I got my start in marketing and sales at Unilever and then at LVMH, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 3:32 Guy Raz By the time Unilever bought the brand in 2014, Talenti was selling well over a hundred million dollars of gelato per year.
- ▶ 59:46 Josh Hochschuler Yeah, and it's hard to come out and be behind the, the, the original authentic one, but, um, so no, we weren't, but then Unilever actually came to us. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:57 Guy Raz I think in December of 2014, Unilever announces that they've acquired, they will acquire Talenti. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:27 Guy Raz By the way, since selling to Unilever, Josh and his business partner, Steve, have been involved in a few other food-based ventures.
Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica
Advice Line with Vicky Tsai of Tatcha
- ▶ 1:57 Guy Raz Um, and you struggled for some time to build Tatcha, but of course now it is a huge multi-million dollar company, um, now owned by Unilever.
- ▶ 4:17 Vicky Tsai And then a couple years later, Unilever asked me to come back.
Ouidad hair products: Ouidad Wise
- ▶ 46:54 Ouidad Wise And then all of a sudden a lot of companies, Unilever I worked with.
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
- ▶ 4:28 Guy Raz Growth was so good that by 2017, Unilever came knocking, but we'll get there.
- ▶ 1:18:01 Guy Raz Meantime, Mark, I guess you get approached by an executive at Unilever just to, just to talk, just to get to know you. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:11 Mark Ramadan It was actually fall of, I think it was around Thanksgiving of 2016, one of our earliest investors, a gentleman named Nir, he was at an event, and he's like, I've just met this guy, Case Kroitov, who at the time was president of Unilever…
- ▶ 1:21:38 Mark Ramadan Because who knows if Unilever will come knocking again? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:20 Guy Raz So, um, both of you now become employees of Unilever. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:31 Guy Raz And then in 2023, Unilever parent company of Sir Kensington decided to stop making Sir Kensington's ketchup and focus on the other condiments
Yasso: Amanda Klane and Drew Harrington
- ▶ 34:47 Amanda Klane Nestle, Unilever, Wells Blue Bunny, kind of those big brands.
- ▶ 1:08:34 Guy Raz Um, in twenty-twenty-three, Unilever announced that it would acquire Yasso, and that's happened. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:58 Drew Harrington There were also a lot of obstacles that came our way that we had to overcome that required hard work, but for it ultimately to end up as a brand that Unilever saw a tremendous amount of value is just a testament to the hard work that went…
Saving the f#$%ing rainforests with Shara Ticku of C16 Biosciences
Mielle Organics: Monique Rodriguez
Halo Top Ice Cream: Justin Woolverton
- ▶ 59:04 Justin Woolverton And so, every single ice cream maker, even from startups to Unilever, were just straight up making copycats.
- ▶ 1:03:42 Guy Raz The Unilevers and the Nestle's and the big, maybe not those exactly, 2 times in the scene
Guayakí Yerba Mate: David Karr and Chris Mann
- ▶ 43:03 Chris Mann And it turned out when they sold to Unilever, they created two small venture fund, two, five million dollar funds, one run by Pierre Ferrari called hot fudge and one run by
Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender
- ▶ 3:58 Guy Raz And in 2016, Seventh Generation was acquired by the multinational Unilever, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:59 Guy Raz Alan, several, I think five or six years after Jeffrey left the company, Unilever acquired it for reportedly for seven hundred million dollars, which is incredible. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:46 Alan Newman Where at the same time that Seventh Generation was being sold to Unilever, and I was feeling really good about that, I was watching Magic Hat, you know, tank, and, you know, it's, it's continuing to tank, and it's, it's probably not going…
- ▶ 1:28:40 Guy Raz You know, Jeffrey, um, I've been meaning to ask, um, because we mentioned earlier that, that in 2016, uh, seventh generation was, was acquired by Unilever. 3 times in the scene
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
The Laundress: Lindsey Boyd
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield (2017)
- ▶ 41:07 Guy Raz It sold to, to Unilever, which is this huge multinational, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:32 Ben Cohen You know, if Unilever bought a brand and bought the goodwill that goes along with that brand and bought the reputation that goes along with that brand, they need to continue those activities in order to keep that brand strong. 2 times in the scene
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin
Method's Adam Lowry And Eric Ryan At The HIBT Summit
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan
Dermalogica: Jane Wurwand (2016)
Live Episode! Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams: Jeni Britton Bauer
Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
- ▶ 26:27 Tom Chappell But I also understood that the reason I was successful at Tom's of Maine is because I took market share away from Colgate, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever.
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield
- ▶ 41:22 Guy Raz It sold to, to Unilever, which is this huge multinational, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:51 Ben Cohen You know, if Unilever bought a brand and bought the goodwill that goes along with that brand and bought the reputation that goes along with that brand, they need to continue those activities in order to keep that brand strong. 2 times in the scene