Guy Raz
Host and Creator, How I Built This. On 1 show, 789 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Guy Raz is a journalist and podcast creator who hosts NPR and Wondery's How I Built This. He is also a co-founder of Tinkercast and previously hosted the TED Radio Hour.
1shows
789appearances
315statements
241resolved
206supported
9contradicted
85%fully supported
6said about them ↓ Everything Guy Raz said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Raz: Consumers buy for aesthetics and function, not just sustainability
“Cause the majority of people are going to buy it cause they look good and they're functional, not cause they're recycled.”
Raz: US managers today would not recommend accent coaching to employees
“And I think in the United States today, no boss would ever give somebody this advice. They would not give this advice because it would be considered to be toxic.”
Guy Raz: 1kg of beef produces 100kg of carbon emissions
“For every kilogram of beef, a hundred kilograms of carbon emissions are produced. And you know, for poultry, it's about 10 kilograms.”
Raz: Slutty Vegan reached $4M in revenue within six months
“I read that within six months of starting The Ghost Kitchen, your revenue is four million dollars.”
Robert Allbritton sold Politico to Axel Springer for $1 billion in 2021
“By the way, in twenty-twenty-one, Robert Albritton, Jim's co-founder and the man who financed and owned Politico, sold it to the German media giant Axel Springer, reportedly for a billion dollars.”
Guy Raz prefers interviewing founders in their 40s over 20-somethings
“We're often pitched on this show, and I understand founders who are like 25 of businesses, or, you know, and that's fine. I mean, and it's a great, great, often great stories, but we generally prefer to talk to founders you know, in their forties, fifties, and…”
Raz: 3,000 super fans are more powerful than 100,000 passive followers
“Having 3000 people Regularly coming to your podcast, your website, or whatever, that is massively powerful. That is a, that's 3000 super fans. I mean, there are people who have 50 thousand fans or a 100,000 fans, and if they have 3000 super fans, those are the…”
Raz: Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder reached a $3.5 billion valuation
“He was first on the show back in May of 2021, and he's back on the lab today to talk about his latest venture called Wonder, which was just valued at a whopping three and a half billion dollars.”
Guy Raz: The average US first-time founder is 41 years old
“Actually, the average age in the United States is 41, I believe, for the, for a first time founder. And generally, the outcomes are better the older you are when you start a business.”
Walmart's $3.3B Jet acquisition was the largest US e-commerce startup buyout
“It was the highest anyone had ever paid to acquire an e-commerce startup in the US at that point.”
Siete Family Foods reached $200M in US retail sales in 2020
“In 2020, Siete hit two hundred million dollars in total retail sales in the U.S.”
Guy Raz: Mormon missions prepare founders for relentless entrepreneurial rejection
“Young Mormons who go on missions, I think, are very well prepared to become entrepreneurs, because you're knocking on a thousand doors a week, and 900 of them are just, like, slamming in your face, and you still have to be polite, right?”
Health-Ade projected $200M in retail kombucha sales for 2020
“By the way, according to the company, HealthAid is on track to sell two hundred million dollars worth of kombucha in retail stores this year.”
Guy Raz: How I Built This accepts zero guest interview preconditions
“We have one precondition for everybody who comes on the show, and it's very simple. It's, we don't accept any preconditions.”
Raz: By 2025, many interviewed founders will have launched during lockdown
“I think in five years time, I'm going to be doing tons of interviews with people who came up with their ideas during this period.”
Founders invented chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
“But it wasn't always a classic flavor, because in fact, it was invented by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in that tiny little shop in Burlington in the 19 eighties.”
Danone Sold Stonyfield to Lactalis for $875 Million in 2017
“By the way, back in 2017, the same year we first spoke to him, Danone sold Stonyfield to another company called Lactalis, one of the biggest dairy companies in the world. And the amount Lactalis paid for Stonyfield? Eight hundred and seventy five million dolla…”
Raz: Newell Brands acquired Chesapeake Bay Candle for $75M in 2017
“About a year after we spoke, in the fall of 2017, May actually decided to sell the company. She wound up making a pretty good deal with Newell Brands. It's a New Jersey-based business that also owns Yankee Candle. The purchase price? Seventy-five million dolla…”
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' personal fortune is estimated at just $1 million
“His personal fortune is estimated to be not much more than one million dollars.”
Raz: Home Depot reached $40 billion revenue faster than any US company
“Home Depot went from zero revenue in 1979 to seven hundred million in 1985, the fastest company in U.S. History to hit 40
Billion dollars in revenue.”
Raz: Lactalis acquired Stonyfield from Danone for $875 million
“Earlier this year, Danone sold Stonyfield to another company called Lactalis, one of the biggest dairy companies in the world. And the amount Lactalis paid for Stonyfield? Eight hundred and seventy-five million dollars”
Raz: Rent the Runway is profitable and America's single largest dry cleaner
“Rent the Runway isn't just profitable. It's also become America's single largest dry cleaner.”
Berkshire Partners' 2016 investment valued Kendra Scott Design over $1 billion.
“Last December, Berkshire Partners made a large investment in her company. The size of the deal wasn't disclosed, but according to a report in Reuters, Berkshire's investment raised the value of the company to more than a billion dollars.”
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Statements about Guy Raz, by other people (6)
Lopez: AI audio flood will increase the value of trusted human hosts
“And ultimately, the people who are afraid that AI is going to create an influx of so many low quality and cheap alternatives to actual real voices, I think what they're not seeing is that in that environment, if that environment does happen, the value of a con…”
Grant: Founders trained to think scientifically generated 40x more revenue
“Over the next year, on average, the entrepreneurs who had been trained to think like scientists, randomly assigned, brought in more than 40 times the revenue of the control group. That is a staggering effect. And the major mechanism behind it is they were more…”
Vaynerchuk: Valuable content relies on either expertise or escapism
“I think about two E's a lot, Guy. Expertise or escapism. So if somebody's listening right now, two things that have always worked to Guy's question is, do you have expertise in what you're talking about? And you have to have humility here and self-awareness. L…”
Joel Clark projected Kodiak Cakes would surpass $200 million in 2020 revenue
“Yeah, we should go over that this year.”
Noom precursors faced two years of rejections and dwindled to $2,700
“After two years of straight, like getting a no from all the NJ investors or VCs or even friends, It became clear. And the reality was, Guy, that we didn't have much money left in the bank. I remember we had, like, 2700 dollars”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Guy's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Host and Creator, How I Built Thishost | 789 | 315 | 85% 206/241 | full record on How I Built This → |