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What How I Built This with Guy Raz Says About Military & Strategy
22 episodes about military & strategy
<p>Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode,...
Key Insights on Military & Strategy
G7 summit agenda restructured to focus primarily on Middle East war consequences, compressing other topics into hours
- Anthropic lost Pentagon contract to OpenAI after refusing military applications, highlighting AI companies' limited value capture
- Congress appropriated $28.8 billion less than Pentagon's munitions request for FY26, creating severe funding shortfall before Iran war began
- Augustine's just war theory permits defensive violence to protect the weak and enact justice, distinguishing righteous warfare from aggression
- The 'learning budget' strategy involves dedicating 1-10% of monthly income to skill acquisition and business experiments
- "Come for the tool, stay for the network" - YouTube subsidized hosting costs to build network effects, a strategy blockchains can replicate through tokens
- The draft reveals a year with 7-10 elite titles but weaker middle-tier options, making category strategy crucial
- Rocket's acquisition strategy creates counterbalanced business: servicing profits rise when rates rise, origination profits when rates fall
Episodes
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar
Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue
iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
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 with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
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
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
Advice Line with Jon Stein of Betterment
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
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)
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