How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How I Built This with Guy Raz

by Guy Raz | Wondery

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.

102 episodes

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All Episodes

1

Advice Line: What’s Your Value?

37:35 Mar 19, 2026

2

Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge

1:29:17 Mar 16, 2026

3

Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery

44:32 Mar 12, 2026

4

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

58:48 Mar 9, 2026

5

Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork

44:50 Mar 5, 2026

6

Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand

1:00:24 Mar 2, 2026

7

Advice Line with Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post

41:15 Feb 26, 2026

8

Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company

1:11:54 Feb 23, 2026

9

Advice Line with Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali of Chomps

48:42 Feb 19, 2026

10

Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M

1:00:52 Feb 16, 2026

11

Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite

46:03 Feb 12, 2026

12

Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant

1:24:59 Feb 9, 2026

13

Advice Line with Jon Stein of Betterment

46:26 Feb 5, 2026

14

HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza

55:41 Feb 2, 2026

15

Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban

53:13 Jan 29, 2026

16

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

1:09:32 Jan 26, 2026

17

Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyers

40:40 Jan 22, 2026

18

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

1:20:21 Jan 19, 2026

19

Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker

45:44 Jan 15, 2026

20

La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)

1:08:36 Jan 12, 2026

21

Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon (December 2024)

53:30 Jan 8, 2026

22

Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)

52:20 Jan 5, 2026

23

Advice Line: Tapping AI as a Resource for Your Business

43:44 Jan 1, 2026

24

SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed

1:24:14 Dec 29, 2025

25

Advice Line with Todd Graves of Raising Cane's

50:43 Dec 25, 2025

26

Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever

1:27:53 Dec 22, 2025

27

Advice Line with Bobby Trussell of Tempur-Pedic

44:02 Dec 18, 2025

28

93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

1:07:16 Dec 15, 2025

29

Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring

43:26 Dec 11, 2025

30

Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)

1:18:16 Dec 8, 2025

31

Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica (December 2024)

52:19 Dec 4, 2025

32

Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.

1:03:26 Dec 1, 2025

33

Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift

48:59 Nov 27, 2025

34

Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry

1:04:08 Nov 24, 2025

35

Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace

48:16 Nov 20, 2025

36

Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.

1:16:44 Nov 17, 2025

37

Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International

47:28 Nov 13, 2025

38

Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel

50:50 Nov 10, 2025

39

Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements

50:02 Nov 6, 2025

40

Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.

1:07:43 Nov 3, 2025

41

Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair

44:07 Oct 30, 2025

42

Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse

1:12:16 Oct 27, 2025

43

Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft

50:42 Oct 23, 2025

44

Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name

1:33:47 Oct 20, 2025

45

Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips

54:46 Oct 16, 2025

46

Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.

1:13:21 Oct 13, 2025

47

Advice Line with Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club

53:54 Oct 9, 2025

48

Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand

1:06:23 Oct 6, 2025

49

Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash

49:13 Oct 2, 2025

50

Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet

1:05:06 Sep 29, 2025

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