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Kip Tindell

lines on the record: 57
first: 2024-12-23
most recent: 2024-12-23
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“Well, Garrett and I were very good friends, and Sharon was this girl that was designing, they designed a park for the city of Austin. I thought that was pretty awesome. And so I was just, um... Not working very hard in school. I didn't have to work.”
2024-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Garrett and I both worked retail all over our lives. I started actually at a Sherwood Williams paint store at 15 in Garrett Boone had a master's degree in history from Rice, and he didn't want to teach. And so what do you do with a master's in history from Rice? Well, he's a paint department manager at Montgomery Wards. And I was a high school kid working part-time at Montgomery Wards. He's 10 years older than me and learned a lot from him. And we really, but we made that paint department at Montgomery Wards, the best department in the whole store. We won all the awards. We would hit the sales numbers. We would get the display numbers. We just, you know, we loved it. And we started even then talking about doing our own, opening our own retail stores someday.”
2024-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whole Foods Oh, yeah. You know, housemate, we shared that house. And I just thought he was the most interesting kid in Austin, and he still is. He's a ditchy dude, for sure, yeah. We lived there forever together. He never graduated either. And we admired that. We were almost kind of proud of it. We took the courses we wanted to take, and it didn't particularly bother us that we didn't get that degree.”
2024-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I never actually graduated, never actually got my undergraduate degree. I think I'm lacking six hours in math science. And one of my college roommates, my wacky friend John Mackey, the founder of a”
2024-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, you know, who wants to leave Austin? Yeah, Austin, I loved it. So I majored in English. And, you know, I was cramming a four-year program into seven years basically. I love that.”
2024-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I lived in this wonderful house just off campus, a duplex with some friends, and my wonderful backyard, I think my landlord finally got tired of all the property tax he was paying on the big backyards. So he built a fourplex apartment complex back there. And he announced that I would be the apartment manager. I would help him lease it and take care of it and all of that. He was going to give me $5 a month off my rent. I thought, well, that's ridiculous, $5. But anyway, my first tenant was Sharon Tyndall, this landscape architecture student from LSU. My whole family's from New Orleans. That was interesting to me. It was fascinating. I had my future wife living in my backyard. Wasn't really Love at first sight. We just got to know each other.”
2024-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, a lot of people said that. My father had a birthday party and I was the bartender. And, you know, they're like, son, you're going to open a store selling empty boxes. That's going to be really hard. Humiliating. And boy, I tried to explain it before we actually put the products on the shelves and opened the store”
2024-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT