The Wall Street Journal
8 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Nov 11, 2019 by Selina Tobaccowala · said 73 times in 52 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (28), Isaac Larian (5), John MacFarlane (4), Jim VandeHei (3), Fokke de Jong (3), Chris Ruder (3), Seth Tibbott (2), Scott Tannen (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
- Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
- iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
- Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2024 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2023 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
2021 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
2020 15 mentions in 15 episodes 1 per episode
- How I Built Resilience: Dr. Iman Abuzeid of Incredible Health
- The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler
- How I Built Resilience: Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries
- Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole
- Dropbox: Drew Houston
- How I Built Resilience: Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement
- Famous Dave's: Dave Anderson
- How I Built Resilience: Justin Gold of Justin's
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about The Wall Street Journal, oldest first
Nov 11, 2019 positive
Jun 14, 2021
Barton: Walt Mossberg broke Zillow's launch embargo by three hours
“He had that personal technology column, and so I flew to DC to go pitch Walt, to give Walt a preview, secret preview, and we did that with several reporters, and we asked that it be embargoed until such and such a date, and Walt, just because he was Walt, kind…”
May 1, 2023 positive
Jun 19, 2023 positive
Feb 5, 2024 positive
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Scott Tannen: Wall Street Journal article generated $500K in sales
“We wake up in the morning and I pull open our system and we had done over a 100,000 dollars in sales. And this is like 10 o'clock in the morning. And by two in the afternoon, we were completely out of inventory. By the time the day and the next couple days wer…”
Nov 21, 2024 neutral
Peloton founder John Foley lost nearly his entire billion-dollar fortune
“At one point, he was worth almost a billion dollars. And he lost all, almost all of it, actually. And I recently read an article where he, in the Wall Street Journal, where he basically said, look, I'm, you know, I lost virtually all my money, but he has start…”
Jan 19, 2026
Gymboree ran WSJ advertorials to recruit stay-at-home moms via commuting husbands
“We also ran kind of an interesting strategy. We ran editorials... In the Wall Street Journal, so that Daddy could read them on his commute to his real job that he had to do to pay for the family, and he'd say, oh my God, this is perfect for my wife.”