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Ben Chestnut

lines on the record: 114
first: 2021-07-12
most recent: 2021-07-12
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“No, I was an awful student, I think, looking back. Really? Yeah, you know, going through my father's belongings, I got a lot of my report cards that he saved.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Her mother is a kitchen tissian like my mother. So, you know, we got along real nice. I knew exactly what to do, grabbed the broom, help her sweep up some hair. You got to know where all that hair hides right under the chair, right under that rubber gasket on the swivel. So I think we hit it off well because I was familiar with this profession. Wow.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What the hell are you doing? Get out and go sit down next to her and wait for her uncle to pick her up. That's what a gentleman does. And I said, oh, right. Thanks, Dad. And, you know, I got out and I went and sat down next to her and we talked a little bit more. And that's how I really, really got to know her then. And, you know, one day she invited me to come over and meet her parents, her uncle and aunt. You know, I was a little bit nervous and I didn't know what I was going to say to her mother when I met her. And I rode my bike over there and I noticed lots of cars in the driveway. I thought this is interesting. This is familiar. And I walk in and sure enough, her mother runs a hair salon in the kitchen.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She was my high school. Yeah. I actually did not meet her in high school. We didn't go to the same high school, but we were, I actually met her at Fort Gordon in karate class. She was another student in our dojo. And I remember, you know, I couldn't even drive yet. And she was pretty new to America. She was adopted by her uncle and aunt. And I remember after karate class, I would wait for my dad to pick me up and she would wait for her uncle to pick her up. And then we'd say goodbye and go our separate ways. And one day the dojo closed down and everybody was gone except for me and her. And they had to lock the doors. And so we just sat out on the front steps at night talking and a little this and that. And my dad pulled up and I said, well, there's my ride. I got to go see you later. And I got into the car. And I said, hey, dad, let's go. And then he looked at me and then he looked at her sitting alone on the front steps. He said,”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Describe my neighborhood that way. It was easy to go out and play with friends and, you know, my friends were just from all over the place. I think that when I would go to school, it was a different story. Inside the school where I was zoned, there were only a handful of Asians there. Was a little bit different. That was definitely probably influenced my whole outlook on life, definitely kind of being the misfit.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right, in Albuquerque. And it was thriving and he saw how proud his father was and the same sort of deal happened. A larger bakery opened down the street and put his dad's business out of business.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, she never did that, she never scaled out of the kitchen. Would have loved to have seen her scale out of the kitchen because I was so proud of her, but I don't know that that was ever her intention. She did inspire my older sister to start her own salon. That was a non-kitchen-based one. Like you say, a brick and mortar one. She opened up a real salon that was very successful in the 80s. And boy, she was just an inspiration for me as well. partly because you know she would come home every couple of weekends with toys toys for me and money for my parents and i i know i just thought you know i want to run a business too and i grow up because this is this is good for the family and i remember um i was too young to understand it at the time but i i pieced together the story afterwards talking to my dad and my sister but she basically had a falling out with her business partners and things got really ugly and she had to file for bankruptcy”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, she had lots of odds and ends kind of job she worked in some textile factories and that sort of thing, but eventually she just sort of became like a neighborhood nanny. We always had kids from the neighborhood running around our house ever since I can remember. Our house was always full of children from the neighborhood. And then, you know, of course, she was an entrepreneur as well. She ran a hair salon in our kitchen.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, he only talked about it whenever I would watch movies or TV about war. He could see that I was sort of engrossed in it and everything, and he would take me aside and say, you know, it's not always that glorious. He would tell me things like that. And I could tell he was dissuading me from thinking about joining the military.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, details are sketchy. He left with all of his secrets. But yeah, in general, he was a code breaker. He listened in on the enemy and he cracked codes.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, my dad was in the army. He did seven tours in Vietnam. Wow. Yeah, he was committed. He was a man of duty. You know, he really loved his duty.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's just military families, you know, marrying into the Vietnam War. And then they came and they just sort of moved into this neighborhood.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The neighborhood I was in was just outside of the city limits of Hepzibah, and I don't really know how to describe it. It's not predominantly anything. It's highly diverse. Lots and lots of immigrant families lived in our neighborhood. Germans, Asians, and when I say Asians, I mean Japanese, Korean, it's Philippines, Vietnamese, all over the board, African Americans as well.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're raising their hand saying, So, what's the strategy? You know, and my answer, you know, as a startup founder is we don't need no stinking strategy. We've got this. And half the audience would cheer and say, yeah, we don't need no strategy. And the other half would say, Yeah, we do. And I remember thinking, oh my God, there actually is no strategy. And so the whole meeting just completely flopped. And I remember going back to my office, just sitting there alone, thinking about what in the world just happened to me.”
2021-07-12 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT