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Advice Line with Chieh Huang of Boxed Apr 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:28 Guy Raz Because, I know this, Saigon cinnamon from Vietnam doesn't have the same anti-inflammatory effects as the Ceylon cinnamon.

Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse Oct 27, 2025 · 1 mention

Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire. Sep 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp Aug 25, 2025 · 4 mentions

Advice Line with Mei Xu of Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme Aug 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:23 Sasha Milstein I'm traveling through Vietnam with my family, and of course, I'm listening to How I Built This, about a woman who started, about a woman who started a chicken salad company, and I'm listening to it.

Advice Line with Lyndon Cormack of Herschel Supply Co. Feb 27, 2025 · 1 mention

American Giant: Bayard Winthrop Jul 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:49 Guy Raz The company could make a lot more money by simply outsourcing to China or Vietnam, but that would defeat the purpose of the business.

nutpods: Madeline Haydon May 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:02 Guy Raz Madeleine was born in Saigon in Vietnam, just as the country was falling to the North Vietnamese communists.

Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:33 Galyn Bernard But for now, I think we're sort of firmly in, um, in Vietnam and India with still a little bit of production in China.

Aviator Nation: Paige Mycoskie Jan 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:47 Guy Raz So is there a world where you could justify, in your mind, making things in China or Vietnam or another country that would be equally as good?

Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea Aug 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:39 Paul Orfalea Interesting things, like they're writing a term paper on Alger Hiss, or, uh, they wrote a paper on Richard Nixon and, uh, the war in Vietnam.

Manduka: Peter Sterios Apr 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:53 Guy Raz Um, and he, he was like, as you mentioned, like, I mean, he had served in Vietnam, like he was a, a veteran, 2 times in the scene

Osprey Packs: Mike Pfotenhauer Feb 20, 2023 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 37:20 Guy Raz Yeah, I mean, it is, it is amazing, and you, you would actually go through another pretty significant cultural shift, like, a few years later in, in the early 2000, when you, you decided to move the company out of Cortez to, to Asia,…
  • ▶ 41:52 Guy Raz So it's the early 2000, and Mike is still running Osprey out of Cortez, Colorado, but he's moved the production of the backpacks to Korea, and then he decides to move again, this time to Vietnam. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:32 Guy Raz Uh, and you move everyone to Vietnam and, but that move really, it sounds like it really allowed Osprey to scale in a big way because now you could manufacture at scale and you could fulfill massive orders for big retailers. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:34 Guy Raz In Vietnam? 2 times in the scene

Zumiez: Tom Campion Feb 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:22 Guy Raz But that year, only men with numbers up to 219 were sent to fight in Vietnam.

HIBT Lab! Yolélé: Pierre Thiam Aug 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:01 Pierre Thiam We even had a rice culture in Senegal, but because of our connection with the French, we started importing broken rice from Vietnam so that Senegalese farmers would focus on growing peanuts that we need for our, our industries.

Florentine Films: Ken Burns Apr 11, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:51 Ken Burns Streaming service or to a premium cable channel and say, hey, I'm making a film on Vietnam, and with my track record, they'd say, how much do you need?

Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman Jan 31, 2022 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 3:42 Guy Raz It was during the late 19 sixties, the height of the Vietnam War.
  • ▶ 5:51 Guy Raz So, so Cho, uh, was from Vietnam. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:13 Tim Leatherman Yes, that was a real awakening for me in Vietnam.
  • ▶ 10:57 Tim Leatherman When we left Vietnam, there were still, uh, 97 in the bedroom of our house. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:11 Guy Raz So I think, I think you guys were planning to stay in Vietnam for a while, but geopolitical forces actually got in the way, um, because the war was ending. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:48 Guy Raz I mean, your wife was from Vietnam.

Dang Foods: Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn Jan 24, 2022 · 1 mention

Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson (2019) Jan 3, 2022 · 1 mention

Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut Jul 12, 2021 · 4 mentions

Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018) May 10, 2021 · 1 mention

Vita Coco: Michael Kirban Aug 3, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:56 Guy Raz At the time, most people who bought coconut water were immigrants from places like Vietnam, India, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop Apr 20, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:27 Rich Fulop He'd lived in China and in Laos and in Vietnam, and so he knew languages, and he knew how supply chains work.

Remembering Jake Burton Carpenter Nov 21, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:38 Guy Raz Jake's older brother, George, was killed in battle in Vietnam.

Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson Sep 23, 2019 · 1 mention

Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017) Jun 17, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:04 Mei Xu Then we have one in Haiphong in Vietnam, and now in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

Belkin International: Chet Pipkin May 13, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:08 Guy Raz And now, of course, that's happening with China and Vietnam and other countries in Asia.

Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner Oct 1, 2018 · 1 mention

Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich Apr 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:39 Ron Shaich I could imagine all, and we're all over there in this, this ex-Vietnam veteran, tattoos all over his body, working in the bakery, comes over and starts to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on him, pounding on his chest, and then all of a…

Burton Snowboards: Jake Carpenter Oct 23, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:51 Guy Raz Jake's older brother, George, was killed in battle in Vietnam.

Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu Mar 6, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:31 Mei Xu Then we have one in Haiphong in Vietnam, and now in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
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