Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

After working in the furniture and home goods industry for over a decade, Mitchell Gold took a risky bet and decided to start his own furniture company. In 1989, he went into business with his romantic partner, Bob Williams, who had been working in advertising as a graphic designer. They contracted with a furniture factory near their home in Taylorsville, North Carolina, and launched a line of boldly-patterned upholstered dining chairs and eclectic dining tables, leveraging Bob’s design skills and Mitchell’s industry experience. Roughly thirty years later, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams is a multi-million dollar brand with hundreds of employees, which sells a full range of home furnishings at retail locations nationwide.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:41.0	How I built this?
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0:50.0	I went to them and said, you know we're just starting.
0:52.0	And I said, you know I'm being open with you.
0:54.0	These are big orders. I got to buy a lot of materials.
0:57.0	I can't necessarily get the credit for it.
0:59.0	Could you pay us in 15 days from the day we ship it?
1:02.0	So it was a good juggling act.
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