How I Built This with Guy Raz

What How I Built This with Guy Raz Says About Relationships

12 episodes about relationships

<p>Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode,...

Key Insights on Relationships

Dating success isn't practiced, it's absorbed - women respond to men whose lives require confidence, not men trying to be confident

  • We're in Cold War II between US and China, but with much deeper economic ties than the US-Soviet relationship ever had
  • Blue-collar workers on construction sites were the most even-keeled about COVID because they have a daily relationship with danger and know how to calibrate risk
  • "Not because you're great, not because you're amazing, not because you're the best, but because I love you" - Mike
  • "Your cohort is going to run all the important institutions 35 years from now" - Lloyd advising young professionals on long-term relationship building
  • The three pursuits after health and wealth are truth, love, and beauty - truth is permanent, love means being in love rather than being loved
  • Every relationship is transactional with value exchange - the secret to happy relationships is two happy people, not trying to make each other happy
  • Cousin marriage remains prevalent worldwide because genetic risks drop dramatically from 0.5 relatedness (siblings) to 0.125 (cousins), making biological concerns minimal

Episodes

NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company

NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company

Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets

Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets

Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle

Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle

Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit

Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit

Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery

Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery

Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business

Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business

Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork

Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork

Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite

Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite

Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon

Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon

Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder

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)

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)

Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon (December 2024)

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