Vermont, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 44Gary Hirshberg 10Roxanne Quimby 6Jake Burton Carpenter 6Ben Cohen 6Alan Newman 6Kyle Clark 5Hamdi Ulukaya 4John Gabbert 3Sarah Wyman 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Vermont comes up
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
Advice Line with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation
Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant
- ▶ 4:30 Guy Raz North Carolina and Vermont, even Michigan has still.
- ▶ 29:51 John Gabbert You know, strangely, one, there's a furniture market in North Carolina, right, where everybody, everybody shows, and usually these little guys don't show, but the state of Vermont, for one market, happened to rent a space for these… 3 times in the scene
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya (2022)
- ▶ 15:57 Hamdi Ulukaya She tells me which bus to take, and where she's going to pick me up, and she wrote down everything, if I get lost, so I can ask people, and she put numbers, and she picked me up from the bus station in Albany, and then from the Albany bus… 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica
- ▶ 39:06 Sarah Wyman Having that design mentality, I started calling around to factories and ended up finding after a lot of calling in factories in Asia and in the US, um, found an awesome designer in Vermont who had experience designing for other underwear…
Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
- ▶ 9:32 Bill Shufelt Um, I'd really fallen in love with craft beer when I went to college in Vermont.
BARK: Matt Meeker
Lily’s Sweets: Cynthia Tice
Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
- ▶ 3:47 Guy Raz The machines are still assembled in Vermont, where the brothers first began putting them together.
- ▶ 20:39 Guy Raz I'm curious for a moment, because you would end up in Vermont, in northern Vermont, um, in a rural part of Vermont, and, and, and I want to ask you about that in a moment, but did your parents think that was a little weird, given that
- ▶ 22:39 Guy Raz So it's 1976, and Pete and Dick have moved to Vermont to set up shop in the barn of an old dairy farm.
- ▶ 46:31 Guy Raz Um, when did you, I mean, were you still able to manufacture most of the, the rowers in Vermont, or at a certain point, I imagine, as you started to scale, you had to move some of the manufacturing overseas, or some of the, at least some… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:57 Guy Raz So one of the things that really intrigued me about this story when it came to me was, you know, you're Vermont-based, it's still mainly assembled there.
- ▶ 58:28 Peter Dreissigacker For me, it's got to be someplace in Vermont.
Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
- ▶ 8:55 Kyle Clark I'm from Vermont. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:06 Kyle Clark You just like blew past companies that were funded to the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars with this small, scrappy, you know, uh, proactive and, and, and frankly, pragmatic team in Vermont.
- ▶ 27:17 Kyle Clark It's a radial network where if I ship something from Vermont to Buffalo, New York, it'll go from Burlington to Manchester, New Hampshire, to Philadelphia, down to Louisville at the hub, get sorted along with another five to eight million…
- ▶ 32:49 Kyle Clark We've built a network for all these test flights that goes from here in Vermont down to Arkansas.
Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya
- ▶ 16:59 Hamdi Ulukaya She tells me which bus to take, and where she's going to pick me up, and she wrote down everything, if I get lost, so I can ask people, and she put numbers, and she picked me up from the bus station in Albany, and then from the Albany bus… 2 times in the scene
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- ▶ 44:36 Michael Horvath Davey and his family live in Norwich, Vermont, across the river from Hanover, and it's my 40th, the day of my 40th birthday, and we sit down for coffee that morning, and Davey has been experimenting with, if he uses a Garmin cycling head…
Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
- ▶ 5:57 Roxanne Quimby We went to Vermont, and the Vermont realtor that we spoke with said that 3 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Bayard Winthrop of American Giant
Simple Mills: Katlin Smith
Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender
- ▶ 12:26 Alan Newman Did our laundry change clothes and decided to go to Vermont really on a whim. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:06 Guy Raz I have to imagine that having Alan by your side, this guy with a kind of scraggly beard or whatever, whatever he looked like, but this, clearly this guy from Vermont who was sort of a hippie, but running an environmentally friendly catalog…
- ▶ 29:45 Guy Raz You did not move to Vermont. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:57 Jeffrey Hollender That was unheard of for this tiny little Vermont company.
- ▶ 1:18:56 Alan Newman Um, Vermont already had three craft breweries. 3 times in the scene
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield (2017)
- ▶ 1:39 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how two hippies named Ben and Jerry turned their small ice cream shop in Burlington, Vermont, into one of the most iconic ice cream brands in the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:39 Guy Raz When you decided, when you, when you told, I don't know, friends or parents or family, like, we're going to go to Burlington, Vermont, and we're going to open up an ice cream shop.
- ▶ 26:18 Guy Raz And this was only in Vermont at the time, right?
- ▶ 49:02 Ben Cohen And, you know, some other ice cream shop opened up before us, and we didn't want to compete, so that's what brought us to Vermont. 3 times in the scene
Remembering Jake Burton Carpenter
- ▶ 0:18 Guy Raz Jake flew down from Vermont for this interview and he brought me a bottle of Vermont maple syrup. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:57 Guy Raz It was a culture that was inspired in part by family ski trips to Vermont when Jake was a kid.
- ▶ 6:59 Jake Burton Carpenter And then I said, I got to move to Vermont to start this company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:39 Guy Raz So you, ok, so you, you moved to Vermont, and then, to start this thing, and then, what was your next step?
- ▶ 16:26 Guy Raz Because you were still doing all the assembly in that place in Vermont.
- ▶ 18:50 Jake Burton Carpenter It's in southern Vermont, and this guy had broken his leg because of some sign or something, skiing, and he sued the mountain, and I think he tried to get
The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs
- ▶ 32:19 Bert Jacobs And, uh, so Jake started eating ice cream, that was the second t-shirt, and, and the ones with the ice cream cone sold even better than the, just the Jake, and the next thing happened with her sister-in-law, and she had a, a place with her…
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017)
- ▶ 3:19 Gary Hirshberg You know, it was, uh, in those days, there were probably 50 shoe manufacturers in New Hampshire alone, and probably a 150 in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont.
- ▶ 23:39 Gary Hirshberg We've already got, you know, a hippie yogurt made by somebody in Vermont in their teepee with their wet goat.
- ▶ 40:19 Gary Hirshberg Uh, it was a dairy in Northern Vermont. 3 times in the scene
Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
- ▶ 6:12 Roxanne Quimby We went to Vermont, and the Vermont realtor that we spoke with said that you couldn't buy any land in Vermont for 3000 dollars, but try Maine. 3 times in the scene
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield
- ▶ 1:55 Guy Raz Maybe it's the fair trade symbol on the front, or the we buy from local Vermont dairy farmers on the side of the pint, or most likely, seeing Ben and Jerry's photo on it.
- ▶ 26:22 Guy Raz And this was only in Vermont at the time, right?
- ▶ 49:28 Ben Cohen And, you know, some other ice cream shop opened up before us, and we didn't want to compete, so that's what brought us to Vermont. 3 times in the scene
Burton Snowboards: Jake Carpenter
- ▶ 2:10 Guy Raz It was a culture that was inspired in part by family ski trips to Vermont when Jake was a kid.
- ▶ 6:08 Jake Burton Carpenter The very first, I was modifying some snurfers that were around, and then I said, I gotta move to Vermont. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:52 Guy Raz So you, ok, so you, you moved to Vermont, and then to start this thing, and then what was your next step? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:39 Guy Raz Because you were still doing all the assembly in that place in Vermont? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:44 Jake Burton Carpenter But we've always had this need for working capital, and so we would work with these Vermont banks, and we'd get up to a certain level, this happened like three times, and then we'd get to a certain level, and they'd say, you know, this,…
- ▶ 40:30 Guy Raz By the way, Burton just celebrated 40 years in business since Jake built that first snowboard in a barn in Londonderry, Vermont, back in 1977.
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg
- ▶ 2:09 Gary Hirshberg You know, it was, ah, in those days there were probably 50 shoe manufacturers in New Hampshire alone, and probably a 150 in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont.
- ▶ 22:30 Gary Hirshberg We've already got, you know, a hippie yogurt made by somebody in Vermont in their teepee with their wet goat.
- ▶ 39:11 Gary Hirshberg Uh, it was a dairy in Northern Vermont. 3 times in the scene