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🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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What’s keeping us up at night (besides our own thoughts)? An 8.4-oz blue-and-silver can of caffeine, taurine, sugar, and flavoring that’s part LaCroix, part Robitussin. Red Bull is not only America’s best-selling energy drink, it was its first: before the Bull, ‘energy drink’ in Illinois meant two Diet Cokes and a coffee chaser. But Red Bull’s reach is global, and its story actually begins halfway around the world. Learn about the Bangkok pharmacy owner who invented Red Bull, then gave it out for free in rural Thailand; and the Austrian toothpaste marketer who built it into a $19B global brand; and how Red Bull got so into extreme sports - it invented its own. (Flugtag, anyone?) We’ll tell you why every business needs a north star word, how an epic product needs a seed AND fertilizer, and why Red Bull is the Best Idea Yet.
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0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. |
0:02.5 | And on this Saturday, Yetis, we are serving up a sample of our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet. |
0:08.6 | It's our second show, and it does deep dives on the most viral products of all time. |
0:12.9 | All right, here's what we got this week. It's Red Bull. |
0:15.4 | Red Bull, the world's first energy drink, and 38 years later, still the biggest energy drink. |
0:21.2 | But few know the wild story about how Red Bull actually began. |
0:24.9 | Yeah? |
0:25.3 | At a tie truck stop. |
0:27.6 | Jack, don't give it all away. |
0:28.6 | Don't give it all away just yet. |
0:30.2 | Yeties, we got a special clip from this episode for you to listen to right now. |
0:34.5 | So sit back, relax, and enjoy this sample of this week's episode, |
0:37.9 | the best idea yet. |
0:45.5 | First thing first, Jack, what are we going to do? Brand new business. What is priority number one? |
0:51.1 | Make it pronounceable. Change the name. Dietrich, he knows English is the language |
0:55.2 | spoken all over the world. Plus, at this time, anything American sounding carries a subliminal |
1:00.7 | message of business potential across the whole world. It's like tossing the word AI into a startup |
1:06.1 | today. You use an English name 30 years ago? Boom, you are getting funding, man. So it's goodbye |
1:10.8 | Krating Daiang, boom, you are getting funding, man. So it's goodbye, |
1:19.2 | Krating, Daiyeng, hello, red ball. Next, it's on from the name and onto product testing, |
1:24.8 | priority number two. As a veteran marketer, Dietrich knows that taste can be reached. You know, |
1:28.2 | Western palates, they aren't always prime for Eastern flavors and vice versa. So he sets up some focus groups over in Austria. And the results, Jack, |
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