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Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
- ▶ 15:02 Serena Dugan But my family is all, was all in D.C., and the questions were, has anyone talked to Dad?
STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
- ▶ 2:18 Guy Raz These include places like Pastis and Budokan in New York, Le Diplomat in Washington, D.C., and Makoto in Miami.
- ▶ 40:02 Guy Raz So, I mean, I lived in Washington, D.C. around that time, so I remember if something like that opened in D.C., everybody would be like, wow, you know, because New York was the center of gravity, still is, in a lot of ways, but I imagine it… 2 times in the scene
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
- ▶ 3:27 Maxine Clark My mother was hired into the typing pool in Albany when she was the first lady of New York, and, and Eleanor took my mother with her to D.C. because my mother was a very fast typist and also a very, a very, um, fast stenographer, and my… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 Guy Raz I know that you studied journalism at the University of Georgia in the 19 sixties, and I guess you originally thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, and I read that you actually moved to Washington, D.C. after college with the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:40 Guy Raz Um, when you think about this arc, right, you started out, you know, moving to Washington, D.C. to be a lawyer, and it turns out that by, by happenstance, you end up meeting this guy, you work for Hecht, and then you get promoted, you go…
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
- ▶ 41:11 Shep Murray In Connecticut, in New York, in Washington, D.C., everywhere, anywhere they would take us.
iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
- ▶ 57:33 Matt O'Hayer And we had met at a, um, Organic Trade Association meeting in Washington, D.C., and we were talking.
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyer's
- ▶ 28:14 Ben Rothenhafer I started about four years ago in Washington, D.C., and, you know, it is my way of serving the community, and I get a lot out of it, and we're in a new place all the time. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
- ▶ 6:51 Valerie Zweig I am calling in from Washington, D.C. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 36:07 Guy Raz All right, let's, let me ask you about the expansion, because, um, you're doing well enough in Chicago, so you decide to go to Washington, D.C. next? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:08 Vijen Patel So, I think around this three-year mark, we were in D.C., and then also Nashville.
- ▶ 43:06 Guy Raz I mean, when you would go into a building, for example, in Chicago, or even in Washington, D.C., presumably, they might push back and say, well, you know, we've been approached by Washio, and they're offering us this incentive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:06 Guy Raz So I'm wondering now, I mean, by the way, you have, you've got, you've expanded to Nashville, your DC, Nashville, Chicago, anywhere else yet? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:02 Vijen Patel I mean, we, we had enough confidence that DC was going well, but still it was like death by a thousand cuts.
- ▶ 51:07 Guy Raz And I'm wondering, and as you're sort of expanding, you're going to move into Philadelphia, and you know, you're in D.C. and Nashville.
Torchy's Tacos: Mike Rypka
Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge
- ▶ 11:04 Justin McLeod Well, in Hinge's day, we started originally in Washington, D.C., 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method
Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
- ▶ 49:42 Bill Keith And we took off across the country, me and my buddy from San Diego to Miami, up to Washington DC and back, selling bars, um, pitching accounts to really try to promote a national launch.
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
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
- ▶ 47:37 Paul Hedrick So we had ended up raising some angel capital, and one of the guys who I had reached out to about raising money was an angel investor out in DC.
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 16:35 Hamish McKenzie Leading up to the last year of my time in Hong Kong, I started a relationship with an American girl who lived in the Washington DC area, and her name is Steph, she's now my wife, but Steph got into law school and was most interested in…
Advice Line with Jonathan Neman of Sweetgreen
Advice Line with Jeni Britton of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
- ▶ 7:18 Jesse Koenig I'm calling in from Washington, D.C. 2 times in the scene
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
- ▶ 3:14 Guy Raz First Chicago, then DC, then Boston, and so on.
- ▶ 35:42 Guy Raz In New York, in Washington, D.C., and L.A., etc.
- ▶ 40:51 Guy Raz So finally, after a lot of pressure, the first place you go to expand is Washington, D.C., um, which I, I, February, 2020, 13, uh, I was living there at the time. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:12 Guy Raz That was my main competitor when you went to DC.
Beyond Yoga: Michelle Wahler
Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica
Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
- ▶ 31:59 Bill Shufelt And I remember going back to the hotel at night at a particular conference in D.C. that had probably over 10,000 craft brewers at it, and I just flopped on the bed and called my wife.
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
- ▶ 30:03 Adam Goldberg We used to go to those cities. 2 times in the scene
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 30:46 Andrew Mason And then, our next city was, I think, Washington, D.C., and, and we, we just figured out this playbook, and
Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
- ▶ 13:18 Guy Raz Washington, D.C., home of Cava, Sweetgreen. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:36 Christiana Martins And then I went to a environmental nonprofit in DC.
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- ▶ 1:09:27 Bayard Winthrop I think you're definitely seeing movement in DC.
Advice Line with Mark Ramadan of Sir Kensington's
Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
- ▶ 24:57 unnamed speaker I'm from Washington, D.C., and hands down, my favorite episode of How I Built This was with Tristan Walker of Walker & Company.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 22:59 Luis von Ahn Like I do remember I was, I was driving from Washington DC back to Pittsburgh, um, because I had been to some national science foundation panel or something like that.
CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman
- ▶ 3:18 Guy Raz To open a small Greek taverna in suburban Washington, D.C., that was the plan.
- ▶ 10:52 Ted Xenohristos And this is probably 40, 45 minutes outside of Washington, DC, uh, in Rockville, Maryland.
- ▶ 51:13 Brett Schulman Yeah, and so we had a really severe one come through the D.C. area, and it knocked everyone's power out. 3 times in the scene
When a robot cooks your lunch with Steve Ells of Chipotle and Kernel
Yasso: Amanda Klane and Drew Harrington
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
Powering cars with solar energy with Steve Fambro of Aptera Motors
The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- ▶ 47:41 Melissa Butler Urban Outfitters to agree, and this is the Urban Outfitters in D.C. to agree to partner with us, and they, they brought in, like, water and drinks, and they allowed us to park in front, and they kind of rolled a red carpet so that it was…
HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole
- ▶ 1:13 Guy Raz The company now has nine locations, mainly in and around Atlanta, but also in Brooklyn and soon in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 49:37 Guy Raz So you're, you're now in, I think, nine locations, mainly in Georgia, but also you've got stores in New York and in Alabama, and soon you're gonna have locations in Baltimore and then in D.C., in Washington, D.C.
Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix
- ▶ 17:28 Lena Phoenix The first time we went back to DC to meet his parents, I was like, why are you guys yelling at each other all the time?
HIBT Lab! The Confess Project: Lorenzo Lewis
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
- ▶ 2:39 Guy Raz That's the model Jim learned as a young reporter in Washington, D.C. in the early 19 nineties. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:17 Jim VandeHei After that, I was going to be a political reporter in Washington. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 Guy Raz I think during your senior year, uh, you applied to do an internship in Washington, D.C. with, uh, with Herb Cole, who was a senator at the time, senator from Wisconsin, of course. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:31 Guy Raz 1995, which, which was a historic time in Washington because both houses of Congress had just, uh, shifted to Republican control, which was a huge story. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:37 Guy Raz You still live there in the D.C. area.
- ▶ 25:45 Jim VandeHei I understood that, ah, if you get really influential people to read content, you can sell ads to companies who care about their image in front of that audience of, of, of DC elites.
- ▶ 31:51 Jim VandeHei Had kids, and you know, we're, it's not a cheap market living in Washington, D.C., and so the risk was very high.
- ▶ 35:34 Guy Raz So he's, he, because he owns these television stations, he had a building, I think, just across, just outside of D.C. in Arlington, and that was where Politico would be located.
- ▶ 43:30 Guy Raz Like, Politico became, you know, a sort of a sensation in Washington DC quickly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:44 Guy Raz In Washington D.C. and beyond. 2 times in the scene
Bluemercury: Marla and Barry Beck
- ▶ 2:35 Guy Raz Their first store wasn't launched in L.A. or New York or even a glamorous city like Miami, but rather in Washington, D.C. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:48 Guy Raz Um, connections, certainly in, in Washington, D.C., and, um, and Marla, you had connections in private equity, and I can't imagine it was that, and this is 99, when, like, money is just being thrown left and right.
- ▶ 39:05 Guy Raz Like, when you, when you went out and raised money in 99 for BlueMercury.com, did you think, you know, in about a year's time, we're also going to have a brick and mortar store in Washington, D.C.? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:10 Guy Raz And by the way, by 2001, because at this point you have two stores now in Washington, D.C.,
- ▶ 55:35 Guy Raz All right, 2005, you got 10 stores, flagship stores still in Washington, D.C. and Georgetown. 2 times in the scene
HOORAE: Issa Rae
- ▶ 41:28 unnamed speaker The, the, the lead in dorm diaries is who I wanted to play awkward black girl, but she was in DC, she was in law school, and she couldn't do it.
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
- ▶ 31:58 Sam Calagione And, uh, I also knew that beautiful coastal Delaware is, you know, pretty much two hours from DC, Baltimore, Philly, three and a half from Manhattan, so it'd actually be like an ideal hub to eventually distribute beer to major metro…
- ▶ 43:46 Sam Calagione I knew that if I could start distributing the, the beers to cities like DC, Baltimore, Philly, Manhattan, and I could get the Washington Post to write about a beer made with raisins, or the Philly Inquirer to write about a beer made with… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:33 Guy Raz Oh, in D.C.
- ▶ 1:06:15 Sam Calagione And then the show started airing, and Discovery's offices are actually right down the road from us in D.C., and they came and watched it with us, and I'll be careful here, and I won't say the name of, one of the international brewing…
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 32:01 Donnel Baird In D.C., and in Georgia, and in San Luis Obispo, and Oakland, California, and lots of places across the country who are headed this way, who've already passed laws that they're going to be a hundred percent green by the year 2030.
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
- ▶ 3:44 Guy Raz He spent much of his early life in Liberia, but his family eventually fled the Civil War there and moved to Gaithersburg, a suburb just outside Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 7:02 Telfar Clemens I used to want to go to, like, like, in D.C. particularly to go shopping because I was like, oh, Maryland.
- ▶ 10:29 Telfar Clemens This group of, like, young designers in D.C., one of them's name is Jonathan Nelson. 2 times in the scene
Dang Foods: Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn
- ▶ 9:12 Guy Raz Um, and, and around, I think, 2009, you were living in Washington, D.C. and working at, I guess, like a, a sustainability nonprofit. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Guy Raz In the meantime, Vincent, did you, um, you had come from D.C. where you were working at a kitchen, clearly thinking about maybe doing something in food.
- ▶ 20:10 Vincent Kitirattragarn But I, I kept some of that sample, the samples from the box, and I heard about this food show, a trade show called the Fancy Food Show, which was in DC that summer.
- ▶ 21:07 Vincent Kitirattragarn And decided to book a flight from San Francisco to DC, and we took some of the samples from the box that I got sent, and I put coconut chips into these little plastic souffle cups and
Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
- ▶ 7:29 Guy Raz They, they hired you and sent you to Washington, D.C., right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:40 John Hendricks I mean, I had big plans for what that could become, so I started down that path, but I also had these local Washington, D.C. area groups that I was meeting with, and then one in particular got me off thinking about television, and I think…
- ▶ 13:48 John Hendricks In Washington, agreed to provide him the studio space at no charge and support him.
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur (2020)
- ▶ 1:00:01 Sarah LaFleur New York was always number one, still is number one, but we saw ourselves growing in two other markets, which was D.C., um, and then the other one being San Francisco, and D.C. was fascinating. 3 times in the scene
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 1:03:20 Brian Armstrong So, yeah, this is an interesting topic that comes up a lot when I talk with, um, folks in government in D.C. and regulators and everything today, and, you know, I'm actually not familiar with that study that you mentioned earlier.
Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
- ▶ 10:36 Noubar Afeyan Uh, so in 1985, I had occasion to go to Washington, D.C. to a conference that had been put on by the National Science Foundation, and by chance, I had a, I sat next to a person at lunch
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 3:44 Guy Raz And for the most part, that's what he was doing 10 years ago in and around the Washington, D.C. area.
- ▶ 9:16 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) My father is an incredible musician, singer, percussionist, playing go-go in Chocolate City, DC, I mean, amazing, and I saw what cocaine did to him, and, and I was like, I can't let this happen to me, so that's why I steered clear from it.
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