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What How I Built This with Guy Raz Says About Entrepreneurship
31 episodes about entrepreneurship
<p>Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode,...
Key Insights on Entrepreneurship
"The right entrepreneurs, the best entrepreneurs, they just simply outcare other people" - caring supersedes IQ, EQ, and raw talent
- Brian Armstrong discovered the Bitcoin A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System white paper on Hacker News in December 2010, leading to Coinbase's founding
- Patrick Collison's first startup was built in Smalltalk, which allowed fixing errors mid-request and resuming execution - "You could edit the code to fix the error, and then resume higher up in the stack" - Patrick
- The country offers 0% tax rates, 180-day tourist visas, and pathways to citizenship for digital nomads and entrepreneurs
- Lee Kuan Yew represents the prototype for 21st century leadership - 'the first startup CEO of a country' who delivered results through minimal coercion
- Institutional capital should be taken 'as late in the game as possible' to maintain founder control and entrepreneurial flexibility - Christina Tosi
- Most entrepreneurial fears are 'false evidence appearing real' - writing down worst-case scenarios reveals 90% are completely unreasonable
- Rollo transformed from Viking raider to Norman duke in one lifetime, founding a dynasty that conquered England and Sicily
Episodes
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks. The Secrets of a Master Brand Builder (2023)
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
Beautycounter: Gregg Renfrew. She Built Beautycounter to $1B… Then Got Fired From Her Own Company
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns
Advice Line with Chieh Huang of Boxed
iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
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
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
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
HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyers
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
Books on entrepreneurship
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