Name: Jimmy Pitches How I Built This' Guy Raz a Solid Waffle Business Idea
Uploaded: 2022-09-19T10:28:38.000Z
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-Thank you for being here. You know, I'm a giant fan.

I also want to thank you for something you did,

not on our show, but you helped me out a couple of weeks ago.

We did a kind of a "for your consideration" Emmy panel --

And I asked you to interview me. And you said yes.

-Thank you for asking, because you deserve an Emmy!

No, I meant -- No, but you -- No, you did such a great --

You're one of my favorite interviewers on the planet.

I love all of your shows. "Wow in the World," I love.

And the new one, this is going to freak people out.

Do you guys know this podcast? If you don't --

It's one of the best podcasts out there right now.

And basically what you do is, you talk to entrepreneurs

and CEOs and people that started these companies,

and what you would think, in my head, I go,

"God, this might be like a boring interview. I don't know.

Do I care about how they made Stacy's Chips?"

-It is -- I do. It turns out I really do.

from interviewing and getting these stories?

-Oh, man, I mean, you know, lately we've been hearing a lot

Like, so, Stacy is a great example, right?

So, Stacy -- Stacy Madison, who created Stacy's Pita Chips,

I mean, that company began as a sandwich cart, right?

And every day they had, like, extra pitas,

and, you know, she didn't want to throw them away.

So they would cut them up and bake them up

and sprinkle them with Parmesan and hand them out to people,

you know, waiting in line for the sandwiches.

she and her partner, Mark Andrus, are like,

Well, maybe we're, like, in the wrong business.

And they completely pivot from pita sandwiches to pita chips.

Within 10 years, they sell this company to Pepsi

Do you now know if an idea will work or not

You know, so, have you ever heard of Edible Arrangements?

-So, you know, the bouquet of fruits, right?

So we had the founder, Tariq Farid, on the show.

And I said, you know, "Tariq, if you asked me 25 years ago,

if you said, 'Hey, I have this great idea.

I'm going to take cantaloupe and melon and pineapple

and strawberries and I'm going to carve it into flower shapes,

put it on sticks, arrange it in a bouquet,

"That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard."

Well, that company is worth half a billion dollars today, right?

you get all these crazy ideas all the time.

I was watching this show a couple of days ago.

And 'cause you're an entrepreneurial guy,

and you had, like, puzzles and you've got the flashcards

-And you've got the emojis, and hands high -- high hands --

-Yeah, hands high, yeah. I came up with this sweatshirt

that -- Because what do you do when your team is winning?

-So I said why not put logos in the armpits?

-Logos under the armpits. You've got -- Right, right.

-So you've got, like, this entrepreneurial itch.

-You want to pitch me? -Yeah, I'd love to.

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Jimmy Pitches How I Built This' Guy Raz a Solid Waffle Business Idea

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