Guy Raz
55 statements across 48 episodes · 23 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2016 by Guy Raz · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Dec 19, 2016 neutral
Jun 25, 2018 bullish
May 30, 2020 bullish
Sep 12, 2020
Sep 12, 2020 neutral
Sep 12, 2020 negative
Raz: Expanding news access failed to make political debates more rational
“A lot of journalists are committed to the idea of spreading information and truths
with the hope that the more people know those things and understand them, the better the national conversation will be, and the more engaged people will be, and the more ration…”
Sep 12, 2020
Raz: Blue-collar workers work harder than any Silicon Valley billionaire
“Somebody working on a construction site works harder than anybody in Silicon Valley. Somebody waiting tables works harder than any billionaire, because it's a really hard job. So hard work alone isn't enough, but it is important and it is a factor.”
Oct 31, 2020 positive
Nov 30, 2020 positive
Dec 7, 2020 bullish
Apr 29, 2021 negative
Jun 14, 2021 neutral
Aug 5, 2021
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…”
Aug 12, 2021 neutral
Aug 19, 2021 positive
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…”
Aug 30, 2021 positive
Aug 8, 2022
Oct 3, 2022 neutral
Oct 6, 2022
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…”
Dec 19, 2022
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…”
Mar 23, 2023 bullish
Apr 25, 2024 positive
Jul 4, 2024
Raz refuses to voice ads on children's podcast Wow in the World
“I don't read ads. We do have ads on the show, but my voice is not as an ad reader because kids don't differentiate between, I'm a character on the show, and they wouldn't differentiate between my voice on Wow in the World and me reading an ad, and so we're rea…”
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Raz: A core audience of 500 loyal content readers acts as force multipliers
“The people who really appreciate it, even if it might just be a thousand people or 500 people, those are your force multipliers. Those are the people who are really going to lean into what you're selling and tell other people about it.”
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Raz: Giving up 50% equity to an experienced partner is worth it
“Even, even if she gives up half of the business, it's worth it because this is really a turning point. And if you find the right person who understands the opportunity here, I mean, this is a, and you know, ice cream is a Pretty crowded space”
Aug 5, 2024 neutral
Aug 15, 2024 positive
Guy Raz: Surfing helmet adoption will mirror skiing within 10 to 20 years
“Yeah, and I've seen it more and more in California. I see more and more people wearing helmets, and I think in 1020 years, it's just, we're gonna look back and be like, people didn't wear helmets surfing? That was, it's like skiing.”
Aug 19, 2024
Aug 22, 2024 positive
Sep 12, 2024 positive
Raz: Tinkercast gifts a classroom membership for every purchased subscription
“One thing that, that has been successful for us at Tinkercast, we have a, an online platform that teaches kids you know, critical thinking skills using our audio podcasts, is we basically, every time somebody buys a the, you know, a membership, we gift one to …”
Oct 17, 2024 positive
Oct 17, 2024 negative
Raz: Claims of 'authenticity' in marketing usually indicate the exact opposite
“I think that, that the more it's used, the less actually authentic something or someone is. And you often see this on social media where people say, be your most authentic self. And I think to myself,
You're standing in front of a camera, and you are acting, a…”
Oct 31, 2024 neutral
Guy Raz: How I Built This rarely books founders under 30
“This is why we very rarely have guests on the show who are under 30, because not, not that they're not smart or interesting, even if they made hundreds of millions of dollars, it's just, You can't buy time. You can't buy, like, life experience, and so we often…”
Nov 7, 2024
Dec 12, 2024 bullish
Raz: Paradis Sport should expand into sports bras
“The thing about sports bras, to me, I would say you should go for it, because you've solved, you've already solved the underwear problem, and I would imagine, and again, I'm a guy here, so I don't, you know, know this as intimately as the two of you, but I wou…”
Mar 27, 2025 neutral
Food Investors Now Demand $50M To $100M In Sales For Acquisitions
“You know, what I'm hearing from investors right now in the food space is they're waiting, they're really looking for brands to hit 50, really a hundred million dollars in sales. You know, a couple years ago, it was 20. If a brand hit twenty million dollars in …”
Apr 28, 2025 positive
May 15, 2025 neutral
May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025 positive
Jun 12, 2025
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Oct 16, 2025
Nov 10, 2025 neutral
Jan 19, 2026
Strict capacity limits and thin margins make yoga studios notoriously difficult businesses
“You go to a restaurant, it might be packed, but the margins are thin, and you go to a yoga studio, and it might be packed, but it's just, the capacity is limited. You can only fit a certain number of people in, and they're really hard businesses, unless it's a…”
Jan 22, 2026
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Raz: Sustainable creator businesses should earn 80% of revenue from owned shops
“It's actually critical to building a sustainable business, because down the road, you really want, you don't want a fifty-fifty, you want like 80% of your money coming in through the shop, because that's, you own that. You don't, YouTube owns the algorithm, ri…”
Feb 19, 2026 positive
Feb 26, 2026
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
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…”
May 7, 2026
Raz: Chomps aimed at male gym-goers, but found most buyers are moms
“The guys that, that created that brand were really targeting, you know, men who were going to the gym who wanted to, like, hit a protein. The majority of their customers are moms, on-the-go moms, and that's what they started to see very rapidly.”
Jul 23, 2026 positive
Raz: Businesses overspend on rising CAC instead of customer retention
“So many businesses, and Kurt, you know this, so many businesses are focusing on customer acquisition, and costs are through the roof now. I mean, what used to be shooting fish in a barrel, you're now spending 80, 90, a hundred dollars more on customer acquisit…”
Sep 10, 2026 neutral
Raz: Virality is borrowed attention; build brands around feelings, not products
“Virality is borrowed attention, right? And so the question is, and it's a good question is how do you, it's not how do you maintain that momentum? You won't be able to get a hundred and ninety seven million views again and again and again. But it's how do you …”
Sep 10, 2026 positive
Raz: Retiring baby boomers sell businesses cheaply and offer mentorship
“A lot of them want to sell their business, and many of them want to sell their businesses for a relatively small amount of money. Sometimes are also willing to mentor whoever buys it, and so there are some really interesting opportunities out there.”
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Raz: Obsessing over copycats can consume and damage a business
“When it comes to the knockoffs and the copycats, I mean, it's gonna happen. I would be really careful not to let it distract you and obsess you, because as we've seen on the show in the past, it can really damage Businesses. TRX, you know, that, that was, they…”