How I Built This with Guy Raz
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How I Built This with Guy Raz is a business podcast hosted by Guy Raz | Wondery. It has 824 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds.New episodes release on Mondays and Thursdays.
business ·en ·824 episodes
Advice Line with Chieh Huang of Boxed
iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)
Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie (June 2025)
Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg
Advice Line: What’s Your Value?
Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business
Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork
Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand
Advice Line with Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali of Chomps
Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
Advice Line with Jon Stein of Betterment
HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyers
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon (December 2024)
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
Advice Line: Tapping AI as a Resource for Your Business
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
Advice Line with Todd Graves of Raising Cane's
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica (December 2024)
Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International
Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel
Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
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