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Fambro: Aptera yields 11,000 miles of free solar charge yearly in SoCal
“You plug it in like normal if you want, but most people won't ever have to because here in Southern California, you'll probably get about 11,000 miles a year of free charge, so.”
Araque: Existing power plants can be repowered with geothermal in weeks
“Yeah, I mean, the power plant's already built, and all we have to do is to feed it the steam that's carbon free. And you can do each one in weeks. That's precisely the play we're after.”
Twelve 8-inch deep geothermal wells could power all of San Francisco
“They're only eight inches in diameter, so absolutely you can. Yeah, I don't think you can do it with anything else, but you're right. It's 12 wells for that amount of energy to run San Francisco.”
Brain data detects Parkinson's 10 years earlier than Apple Watches
“For example, you can actually pick up Parkinson's responses using the Apple Watch.
The issue is that by the time you pick it up at the hands or through walking metrics, your brain's already been dealing with it for the past 10 years.
And so with the brain, you…”
Scholl: Overture meets latest subsonic noise standards
“So this meets the same most stringent noise standards that apply to latest generation subsonic airplanes.”
'Jack Daniel's Legacy' mentions Nearest Green's family more than Jack's own
“Jack Daniels Legacy. It was a biography by a local journalist out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who goes to Lynchburg, Tennessee, to write the authoritative biography on the most famous whiskey maker in the world. And very early on into the book, It introduces this …”
Vaccarella says Bogg Bag was the only EVA bag available initially
“Well, shoes in my bags, because we were the only EVA bag at the time, but they were being made in the same type of machinery.”
Golf Apparel Brands Can Generate $150M Solely Through Pro Shops
“Greengrass Golf Shops, which is, for those of you know, the golf brands, the Peter Millar's, the Johnny O's you can do, you know, a hundred and fifty million north in just those shops.”
Bongiorno: Humane AI Pin does not record passively without active engagement
“We're not recording at all. We're not recording from the cameras or the microphone unless you engage with the device.”
Masterson: Brands do not pay placement fees for Sephora's Favorites Wall
“So when I got the call, we're going in for free. Because you don't pay for the favorites wall.”
Sade: Pollination is primary limiting factor for avocado orchard yields
“Avocados and other crops that we are dealing with, pollination is a limiting factor for yield. Okay. So there is a very big gap that we can increase the yield responsibly without taking too much resources from the trees.”
Fambro: Aptera yields 10 to 12 miles of daily solar charge overcast
“It'll, it'll still charge. It might only charge, you know, 10 miles worth or 12 miles worth or something like that if it's overcast or in a northern latitude, you know.”
Beautyblender's patent was blocked by an existing medical ear cleaner patent
“There was a patent owned by a company that, and this is the craziest thing, and this is why I fought so long and hard about it, but There was a medical ear cleaner that was like, if you can envision, like, almost like a Q-tip, only bigger. It was like, it had …”
Yolélé’s custom milling equipment reduced fonio processing waste by fifty percent
“Now we not only eliminated the waste because at this stage of Fogno Processing. We still had close to 50% of waste, which is crazy. And now with the machine, they design a machine that not only eliminates that waste, but it really is also processing at a much …”
The first Bandcamp Friday generated 15 times normal Friday sales
“It was it was about 15 times our normal Friday sales, which for the systems team, for support, for developers, it was a really big effort to keep the site running and have it keep up with all of that.”
Charlie Puth refused to soundcheck until venue removed its Confederate flag
“And then we went to Ohio after, and on stage, it was a Confederate flag right behind the stage, and Charlie Puth refused to go on for his soundtracks. Until they took that flag down.”
Charlie Puth refused to soundcheck until a Confederate flag was removed
“And on stage, it was a Confederate flag right behind the stage, and Charlie Puth, Refused to go on for his soundcheck until they took that flag down.”
Peter Thiel invested $200,000 in Stripe on the spot
“But Peter being such a, sort of, you know, an inveterate contrarian was quite sympathetic to this case, and decided on the spot to make, you know, a fairly material investment of 200,000 dollars.”
Daymond John's mother took out a $100,000 home equity loan for FUBU
“So she goes out and she gets a 100,000 dollar loan on our house.”
Vaccarella says Bogg Bag reached $1 million in sales in 2018
“So you had three months to hit a million dollars. That's a lot of pressure. Yeah, it was. But we did it. We squeaked it by.”
Pyjack: Obstacle course racing to replace equestrian at 2028 Olympics
“Yeah, it's gonna be put into the modern pentathlon in twenty-twenty-eight, so it's gonna replace equestrian.”
McCraney: Cowboy Country Club is in around 100 retail stores
“So last year we started our wholesale business and we're in around a hundred retail stores nationwide.”
The United States now generates the majority of the UK-based Gymshark's revenue
“I know the U.S. So the U.S. Is now, the U.S. Is now the majority of the business.”
Rachael Ray mistakenly credited Nutsonline as Nuts.com on air in 2011
“We did ship them to Rachel Ray, and at the very end, she says, in the credit, she says, oh, I really want to thank nuts.com. And we were nutsonline.com, so I was like, oh, man.”
Shufelt: Athletic Brewing is a top 10 US craft brewer by volume
“Yeah, Athletic is top 10 craft brewer's number one biggest non-alcoholic beer breweries.”
Nussbaum: Proto technology can broadcast to thousands of locations simultaneously
“There's everything that you would need to hear, see, and interact with your audience, or audiences, because our technology, you can beam into
Thousands of locations at the same time.”
BloomX: Robotic pollinator covers up to 20 hectares in six days
“It can do up to 20 hectares a week in six days.”
Herschel was featured on the cover of the GQ gift guide
“GQ the next day requested one of our bags to be shot in their studio, and we ended up on their, the front cover of the GQ gift guide for that year”
Hendricks: Westinghouse gave Discovery Channel a free week on satellite transponder
“Westinghouse, anxious to lease a transponder for the satellite, yeah, the satellite transponder, said, John, you know, we'll donate, we will give you the use of the satellite for a week.”
Reffkin: Grandfather left $26M to my aunt and $100 to my mother
“He ended up being very successful. I think he and his family owned real estate in Israel, and, you know, when he died, you know, he gave twenty-six million dollars to her sister, who is, I guess, more obedient to the way that And he wanted her to be. And gave …”
Bartolucci took a $65,000 mortgage on parents' house for startup capital
“And we took 65,000 dollar mortgage on my parents' house.”
Safeway Picked Up Kodiak Cakes Across 1,200 Stores in 2004
“So in 2004, I had been working on sales, you know, kind of part time and I'd been working with Safeway. And I sent some samples out to this buyer. Her name was Donna Sullivan. She called me and she's like, Hey Joel, we're going to bring your pancake mix in to …”
Hartz: Early Eventbrite Handled a 100,000-Person Salsa Congress in Mexico City
“I'll never forget there was a 100,000 person free salsa congress in Mexico City that happened on Eventbrite when we had no business Ticketing. A 100,000 person event.”
Stonyfield Raised $2.5M and Opened a New Factory
“All told, including paying off the debts, two and a half million dollars, and opened our new factory nine months later in Londonderry, where we are today.”
Dyson: First licensed cyclonic vacuum in Japan sold for $2,500
“Well, I think considering it was two and a half thousand dollars, it did quite well.”
Saban sold over 18 million records in France over eight years
“I started a production company, then I set up my own label, And I sold over a period of eight years that I lived there on my own label, ah, more than eighteen million records.”
Zimmer wore frog and beaver costumes to market Zimride at Cornell
“One of the kind of funny things we had to figure out was how to quickly market to the college campus, and so one of our early purchases was a frog and beaver costume that we put on. I went to Cornell. I was actually going to Cornell on a recruiting trip for Le…”
Raz: Paige and Blake Mycoskie founded their companies on the same day
“By the way, according to Paige's mom, Paige and her brother Blake started their respective companies on the very same day in 2006, February 26, to be exact, which also happens to be Paige's birthday.”
Simmons: Writing 10,000 to 11,000 words weekly at ESPN caused burnout
“I was writing 10, 11,000 words a week. And it was unsustainable. Like I really started to burn out and Jimmy came along.”
DFJ led Kana Communications' $700,000 Series A round in 1996
“Our series A led by Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, DFJ. We closed that round in, I believe it was 1996, and 700,000 dollars.”
Raz: Over 10% of 'How I Built This' Founders Started in Consulting
“A significant percentage of people who've been on the show, I'd say more than 10%, worked in consulting for a couple years early in their careers, where you, you're basically paid to learn everything about a business in order to give them advice for how to be …”
Boyd: The Laundress trademarked its brand in every country it sold in
“We early on had all our name trademarked in any country that we were sold to. So we owned the licensing and the trademarks.”
LaFleur: M.M.LaFleur registered in Delaware in June 2011 at WeWork
“I signed for a WeWork office starting May one, back when WeWork was still very small. I think they had, like, two buildings in New York. And then I officially registered as a LLC June one in Delaware.”
Wurwand: California had only about 2,300 licensed skincare professionals when IDI launched
“So I called the State Board of Cosmetology in Sacramento, California, and I called them and I said, do you have a list of everyone licensed in the state of California to perform skincare treatments? And it was a very short list. It was like 2300 names.”