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Oprah Winfrey

Chairwoman and CEO, Harpo Productions · 0 appearances on the record.

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Oprah Winfrey is the Chairwoman and CEO of Harpo Productions and founder of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). She hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show for 25 years and executive produced the documentary series Belief.

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Everything Oprah Winfrey said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

The other half of the tape: Oprah Winfrey's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 68 times in 26 episodes on How I Built This. 7 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Oprah Winfrey, by other people (7)

What-if
Publicizing Oprah's endorsement early would have bankrupted UGG due to insufficient capital
“If we had announced that Oprah was wearing our shoes or boots, it would have killed the company when I owned the company, because I didn't have the capital to build the product to take on that demand.”
Brian Smith Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 1:23:12 UGG: Brian Smith. How an epiphany, surfers, and $500 launched an iconic sheepskin footwear company.
Insight
Jennifer Martin: Pipcorn over-indexed on seasonal gifting post-Oprah
“I think the Oprah, we sort of, like, pivoted A little bit too much to focus on, like, being an online gift, and we had to, like, swing all the way back to figure out, like, okay, well, that's seasonal, right? People love that for the holiday, but then the rest…”
Jennifer Martin Apr 26, 2021 ▶ 52:45 Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tory Burch website drew 8 million visitors following Oprah Winfrey endorsement
“She told us to back up our site. We had eight million visitors in our first, almost second year in business.”
Tory Burch Jun 5, 2023 ▶ 43:14 Tory Burch: Tory Burch
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jeff Martin: Pipcorn website crashed immediately upon airing on Oprah
“They showed a pan-across shot at the market of our packaging, and when they showed the name, Pipcorn, our website crashed.”
Jeff Martin Apr 26, 2021 ▶ 48:58 Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jeff Martin: Pipcorn generated up to $200,000 in sales following Oprah feature
“It was like close to, you know, 200,000 dollars in sales in, in a short, in a really, maybe like a 150,000 dollars of sales in a really short period of time”
Jeff Martin Apr 26, 2021 ▶ 50:02 Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
Assertion Supported
Oprah named Spanx a favorite product weeks after Blakely quit her job
“I quit my job on October 16th, and Oprah called me in the beginning of November. And chose Spanx as her favorite product of the year.”
Sara Blakely Dec 5, 2019 ▶ 11:21 Live From The HIBT Summit: Sara Blakely Of Spanx
Assertion Supported
Oprah Winfrey named Kilgore a personal inspiration on her show finale
“Marcia's built so many companies that on the last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah named her one of her personal inspirations.”
Guy Raz Jan 22, 2018 ▶ 47:38 Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore

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2017 18 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
2016 5 mentions in 1 episode

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Oprah Winfrey was played rather than Oprah taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin Apr 26, 2021 4s clip played
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