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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wall Street comes up
Catalina Crunch: Krishna Kaliannan. From Homemade Keto Cocoa Puffs to Breakfast Aisle Breakthrough
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
- ▶ 5:38 Guy Raz Um, did you intend to, like, was it your sort of idea that, okay, I'm going to go to New York and go to Wall Street and get into finance?
- ▶ 10:19 Danae Ringelman I mean, I'd always gone to movies as a kid, but I never actually thought about the business behind it, and somehow discovered or got invited to this event called Where Hollywood Meets Wall Street. 3 times in the scene
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
- ▶ 3:19 Alex and Mike Faherty Like, he was, his first gig after college was on Wall Street in the seventies, so like, you can imagine dressing the part was a big part of it.
- ▶ 13:37 Alex and Mike Faherty And I, you know, I had a great discount at Ralph Lauren, so I got to dress Alex for his Wall Street part, you know.
- ▶ 14:06 Alex and Mike Faherty You know, I was going from this, like, you know, stodgy Wall Street office, you know, barren place.
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
- ▶ 5:07 Amy Errett It was exciting, and remember that I had spent my whole career in New York City on Park Avenue or down in Wall Street, and it was completely different.
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 5:55 Chris Best The, the insight that we had, which sounds very stupid to say out loud now, but was novel enough at the time, was, hey, this new device, the smartphone, which for a while, it was basically only like, you know, bankers on Wall Street that…
Snap: Evan Spiegel
Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon
- ▶ 23:55 Rowena Scherer I, I, my first career was on Wall Street.
The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
- ▶ 44:59 Kip Tindell You know, until then, you're able to focus on employees, product, and customers, and Wall Street banks and equity owners are not a distraction.
- ▶ 52:54 Kip Tindell You know, Wall Street isn't very patient.
Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
- ▶ 6:42 Bill Shufelt On Wall Street.
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 43:54 Andrew Mason So, so I think we were like difficult for wall street who really values predictability and being able to say, this is how we think we're going to do this quarter.
- ▶ 45:35 Guy Raz Did you, or did you, were there people explicitly, whether they're investors or Wall Street, you know, investors saying to you, hey, you've got to do something here.
Advice Line with Tony Lamb of Kona Ice
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- ▶ 4:24 Bayard Winthrop I did, at a pretty young age, get pretty fixated on this idea of being stable financially, and in that town, Wall Street was kind of the thing, and, and starting, I think, in my sophomore year in college, I got a summer intern job at a…
- ▶ 8:36 Guy Raz You, and you had just come off a job on Wall Street, but I guess you were really looking to get into, like, products, like a, like working for a company that made something.
- ▶ 10:45 Guy Raz I mean, you came from a job on Wall Street.
Briogeo Hair Care: Nancy Twine (2020)
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
- ▶ 45:51 Steven Udvar-Hazy From Wall Street saying, why don't you guys go public?
MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
- ▶ 5:37 Scott Svenson A lot of people from Harvard ended up going to work on Wall Street, and I looked at it as an opportunity, frankly, very simply to make some money to pay my student loans back, because I did need to make money, and to get an education in…
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 1:05:17 Joel Simkhai But the main feeling I had was kind of proud of myself for building something that got acceptance from Wall Street to a certain extent.
The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- ▶ 12:02 Melissa Butler So literally, I switched my concentration and my focus to business finance, and that's where I stayed, and I was like, okay, well, if I'm gonna do this finance thing, I'm gonna go and work on Wall Street, because, you know, now I can be… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:25 Guy Raz So you come back to the US, and you decide to go work on Wall Street for Barclays Bank.
- ▶ 40:39 Guy Raz She's working on Wall Street, you know.
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
- ▶ 6:34 Blake Scholl The right data wasn't in the accounting system, and so it was, you know, it was just really stumbling over their own internal ability, and then so what happens is now they're missing earnings, and they're missing earnings, and they're…
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout (2020)
HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker
- ▶ 2:49 Sara Menker I didn't, you know, you know, there are people who grow up, and you're like, I, I dreamt of going to Wall Street. 3 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Tala: Shivani Siroya
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 3:40 Donnel Baird We gotta send him to Wall Street so he can make some money.
- ▶ 6:32 Donnel Baird So remember there's a financial collapse and, um, so I was a liaison between the U S department of energy and a bunch of labor unions and energy utility companies and wall street banks around a particular part of the 2009 recovery act.
- ▶ 12:35 Donnel Baird Well, why can't Wall Street provide the capital to pay for us to green all the buildings? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:20 Donnel Baird Yeah, but again, we have a mix of capital from Silicon Valley and Wall Street, and Silicon Valley, you don't really have to be profitable, as we're all learning. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:01 Donnel Baird They need to, like, open source and share that data globally so that Silicon Valley and Wall Street can duplicate and scale those projects, and so with our project in Ithaca, for example, we are signing up nine other cities across America…
- ▶ 42:20 Donnel Baird Then there's Wall Street. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:55 Donnel Baird Wall Street's gonna give us all the capital we need.
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 23:49 Gary Vaynerchuk And then we built a big reputation because Wall Street, a lot of people live in the Jersey suburbs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:41 Guy Raz So you're building this, this email list, and you are starting to reach people, especially Wall Street people who know a deal when they see it.
- ▶ 37:56 Gary Vaynerchuk I didn't even pay attention to Wall Street.
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 21:17 Guy Raz Did you think, uh, I'm gonna go start a business, or I'll go to Wall Street? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:07 Robert Reffkin Walking the halls of Lazard, you know, a hundred plus year institution on Wall Street.
Casper: Philip Krim
Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
- ▶ 0:50 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two college friends built an easy on-ramp to Wall Street by launching Robinhood, a stock trading app that even in the midst of controversy has grown to thirteen million users.
- ▶ 1:01:07 Guy Raz A struggling company called GameStop suddenly became the hottest stock on Wall Street.
How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics
- ▶ 8:09 Beverly Leon And when I graduated from Columbia, I actually got this, I landed this awesome job on Wall Street
The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler
Famous Dave's: Dave Anderson
- ▶ 49:50 Dave Anderson Well, one of the things I was told by the Wall Street guys was that, uh, I was just a barbecue guy that I needed to hire Wall Street savvy casual dining executives. 3 times in the scene
Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout
Briogeo: Nancy Twine
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman
Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich (2018)
Remembering Jake Burton Carpenter
- ▶ 24:49 Jake Burton Carpenter Because they had these expectations that, like Wall Street, just, they take things and they project unrealistic expectations.
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
- ▶ 3:59 Tristan Walker The second was to work on Wall Street.
- ▶ 8:45 Tristan Walker Um, and Wall Street was the next greatest option. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:53 Tristan Walker My first internship on Wall Street, you know, you're told you got to shave every day.
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017)
- ▶ 33:25 Gary Hirshberg But now we round the bend into the fall of 87, October of 87, um, a fateful weekend, the weekend of the crash of 87 in Wall Street, but what happened for us was on the Thursday night of that weekend, Becky Capeless, the banker for his,…
- ▶ 52:32 Gary Hirshberg I work with Wall Streeters and
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)
- ▶ 0:53 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Wendy Kopp convinced graduates from some of the top universities to forget Wall Street, forget law school, forget big money, and instead, become a teacher.
- ▶ 6:16 Wendy Kopp And so my thought was, you know, how different would it be in our country if we had many of the most promising future leaders instead of, you know, working on Wall Street for two years right out of college, teaching for two years in urban…
JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
Barre3: Sadie Lincoln (2017)
Minted: Mariam Naficy
- ▶ 6:33 Mariam Naficy And some of my fellow classmates who were in economics and poli sci were interviewing for jobs on Wall Street and in management consulting firms.
Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich
Chipotle: Steve Ells
Burton Snowboards: Jake Carpenter
- ▶ 25:19 Jake Burton Carpenter Because they had these expectations that, like Wall Street, just, they take things and they project unrealistic expectations.
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp
- ▶ 0:46 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Wendy Kopp convinced graduates from some of the top universities to forget Wall Street, forget law school, forget big money, and instead, become a teacher.
- ▶ 6:10 Wendy Kopp And so my thought was, you know, how different would it be in our country if we had many of the most promising future leaders instead of, you know, working on Wall Street for two years right out of college, teaching for two years in urban…
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg
- ▶ 32:16 Gary Hirshberg But now we round the bend into the fall of 87, October of 87, um, a fateful weekend, the weekend of the crash of 87 in Wall Street, but what happened for us was on the Thursday night of that weekend, Becky Capeless, the banker for his,…
- ▶ 51:23 Gary Hirshberg I work with Wall Streeters and
Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz
- ▶ 0:06 Howard Schultz When I returned as CEO, which I never had planned to come back, I would say that there were people both on the board at the time, and many people at Starbucks, and certainly hundreds of people at Wall Street, that said, you're bringing him…
- ▶ 37:26 Howard Schultz And I think the big mistake though was Wall Street and the stock price became an albatross on the company's neck. 2 times in the scene
5-Hour Energy: Manoj Bhargava
- ▶ 20:05 Manoj Bhargava So if, if you're working two jobs, if you're, if you're driving truck, if you're, if you're on Wall Street working, you know, 16 hour days, if you're in the, in, on, in Los Angeles on a movie set, all of those guys work really long hours.