Virginia, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Virginia comes up
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
- ▶ 5:22 Gregg Renfrew I ended up, uh, falling in love with someone, and he was transferred to Virginia and proposed to me, and so I ended up moving.
Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group
- ▶ 9:13 Ikechukwu (Ike) Agwebu Um, yeah, so a majority of our sales come from DTC, but we also have, um, partnerships with specifically Gold's Gems here in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area, and we're hoping to expand that across the
Advice Line with Jonathan Neman of Sweetgreen
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica
- ▶ 8:58 Camille Hardy It absolutely did start because I became a parent, and it also started because I, when I moved from Pasadena to Virginia, the options, um, in terms of healthy or clean eating weren't as available as they were.
Advice Line with Andrew Abraham of Orgain
- ▶ 21:09 Turner Lewis Well, it started with a golf drink that we know pretty well here in Virginia, uh, called a transfusion. 4 times in the scene
Whole30: Melissa Urban
- ▶ 12:51 Melissa Urban I bounced, and I went down to Virginia to live with my dad.
- ▶ 34:06 Melissa Urban So we jumped in the car on a Friday, drove down to Virginia, sat people in a cold CrossFit gym on metal folding chairs for eight hours, and talked about the whole 30.
Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
- ▶ 2:57 Gene Berdachevsky Um, so I went from that to a much nicer climate in Virginia, and my folks both ended up being software engineers.
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- ▶ 1:04:53 Mike Cessario So, you know, we got connected with a great source in, uh, the mountains of, uh, Western, uh, Virginia, not West Virginia, but like Western Virginia.
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
- ▶ 30:25 Paul Orfalea I could easily go to the corporation, say in, uh, Virginia, uh,
- ▶ 35:03 Paul Orfalea I had a woman in Virginia that went down to Florida once again and opened their own shops.
When robots recycle with Matanya Horowitz of AMP Robotics
- ▶ 18:11 Matanya Horowitz We have one customer that's, uh, recycling and disposal services in Virginia, but the way the industry works is your city will have, or your HOA will have a waste contract, and they'll have a contract with one of these groups.
HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
- ▶ 52:29 Guy Raz Through the phone and email and, like, texts and stuff, or did you at this point, Wiley, say, you know, I'll, I'll go out to Virginia or wherever, like, and, and let's start working in a room together. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:14 Greg Solano And lo and behold, you know, they lived in Virginia.
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott (2019)
- ▶ 4:57 Seth Tibbott I would go down to my aunt Glenn and Uncle Ned's farm in rural Virginia, Palmyra, Virginia, and I didn't like turkey, I didn't like mashed potatoes, I didn't like the green, but I didn't like any of the food, cranberry, nothing, and my mom…
Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- ▶ 6:25 Jennifer Fitzgerald He, uh, took a civilian job in Bluefield, West Virginia, which is a small, uh, town on the border of West Virginia and Virginia. 2 times in the scene
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Katie Mitchell & Celena Gill
- ▶ 15:48 Celena Gill We joined the Made in D.C. program, which is a program for local makers, you know, D.C. and Maryland, Virginia area, and through the program, we were able to, one, meet other makers, find out about vending fairs, they had programs for us…
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 11:52 Casey Neistat Uh, ultimately, school finished up, and, uh, her lease was up, and she didn't know where to go next, and she and I decided to leave Connecticut altogether and move to Virginia, where my big brother, Van,
- ▶ 13:39 Casey Neistat And I remember driving the, you know, ten-hour drive back to Virginia, and for the first time, like, she and I were talking about, like, okay, we're gonna have a baby. 2 times in the scene
Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018)
- ▶ 33:22 Stacy Brown What do I have to do to get one of these in Virginia?
Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018)
- ▶ 33:27 Steve Madden He was, he was called a hero, like he left, he defended his homeland of Virginia.
Tate's Bake Shop: Kathleen King
- ▶ 27:10 Kathleen King Well, first they started, you know, at the bake shop, and then they went to Virginia to put together a cookie plant production down there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:24 Guy Raz Yeah, so there, meantime, those guys are down in Virginia with plans, presumably, to take your brand that you had spent 20 years building up and really, uh, expanding that.
FUBU: Daymond John (2018)
- ▶ 24:03 Daymond John Really, really beg him to go on his show, and, um, we put on the bodyguards around Ralph, and we found out that Ralph was going to, to Teddy Riley's, um, concert, or Teddy Riley had a weekend that he used to throw in Virginia, so we said,… 2 times in the scene
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs
- ▶ 17:40 Bert Jacobs Uh, for us was that we would knock on someone's door and we'd be down in Virginia, you know, and they would say, uh, what year are you guys?
Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott
- ▶ 4:16 Seth Tibbott I would go down to my aunt, Glenn, and Uncle Ned's farm in rural Virginia, Palmyra, Virginia, and I didn't like turkey, I didn't like mashed potatoes, I didn't like the green, I didn't like any of the food, cranberry, nothing, and my mom…
Five Guys: Jerry Murrell (2019)
- ▶ 1:19 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how a tiny family-run burger joint in suburban Virginia became one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains in American history.
- ▶ 7:26 Guy Raz Arlington, Virginia.
- ▶ 15:30 Guy Raz Coming up, how five guys did stay in business, and how they grew way beyond Virginia, even though the last person who wanted to do that was Jerry.
- ▶ 20:18 Guy Raz So, I have lived in, in the Washington, D.C. area for a long time, off and on, and I remember, you know, driving to Virginia in, like, uh, you know, 1999, 2000 to get a Five Guys burger in Virginia, when it was still just, what, four or…
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
- ▶ 3:16 Guy Raz And then she reinvented herself yet again by starting an 800 acre sustainable farm in Virginia, where she now lives.
- ▶ 49:17 Guy Raz Farm in Virginia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:30 Guy Raz It's based in McLean, Virginia, and if you want to find out more about it or hear previous episodes, head to our podcast page, howibuiltthis.npr.org.
Steve Madden: Steve Madden
- ▶ 33:19 Steve Madden He was, he was called a hero, like he left, he defended his homeland of Virginia.
Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown
- ▶ 33:26 Stacy Brown What do I have to do to get one of these in Virginia?
FUBU: Daymond John
- ▶ 23:10 Daymond John Really, really beg him to go on his show, and, um, we put on the bodyguards around Ralph, and we found out that Ralph was going to, to Teddy Riley's, um, concert, or Teddy Riley had a weekend that he used to throw in Virginia, so we said,… 2 times in the scene
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
- ▶ 10:28 Reid Hoffman America Online was based in D.C. or Virginia, and, um, uh, and CompuServe was in Ohio, and so the thing that was local was the Apple computer eWorld.
Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
- ▶ 9:09 Steve Huffman Um, but in, in Virginia, during that time, we didn't call them startups. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:04 Steve Huffman So, we got back to Virginia, and a couple days later, Alexis said to me, hey, Steve, you should send Paul an email thanking him for meeting us, and so, so I did, and he responded back. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:01 Alexis Ohanian You know, at the end of the summer, maybe we just would have, I don't know, gone back to Virginia.
Radio One: Cathy Hughes (2017)
- ▶ 7:13 Cathy Hughes I ended up in Virginia some mornings trying to get towered.
Five Guys: Jerry Murrell
- ▶ 0:43 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how a tiny family-run burger joint in suburban Virginia became one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains in American history.
- ▶ 6:51 Guy Raz Arlington, Virginia.
- ▶ 14:55 Guy Raz Coming up, how five guys did stay in business, and how they grew way beyond Virginia, even though the last person who wanted to do that was Jerry.
- ▶ 15:25 Guy Raz So Jerry and his sons opened up a tiny burger joint in Arlington, Virginia. 3 times in the scene
Radio One: Cathy Hughes
- ▶ 7:00 Cathy Hughes I ended up in Virginia some mornings trying to get towered.