Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store

This episode is brought to you by Just Works, one platform that handles the complicated stuff. Payroll, benefits, global hiring, and and makes running a small business one million percent smoother. Stick around. I'll tell you more later in the show. Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week, I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show.

who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one minute message that tells about your business and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. Alright, let's get to it. Joining me today is Kip Tindle. He's the co-founder and former CEO of the container store. Kip, welcome back to the show. Thank you. Really happy to be back. Uh we had a lot of fun last time. I hope we can this time. We did. It was it's great to have you back. So so you were first on the show uh back in twenty twenty four, when of course you told the story of the container store. It's an awesome story. Uh in nineteen seventy eight.

You and your friend Garrett Boone opened the first container store in Dallas. Uh, your wife Sharon joined Pretty soon after. And a a lot of people don't understand how what a big deal it was at the time because Back then people couldn't just get

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