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Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (172), George Zimmer (10), Sadie Lincoln (7), Sal Khan (6), Adam Lowry (6), Sandy Lerner (5), Andy Dunn (5), Tony Xu (4)
2026 28 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
- Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
- Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
- Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
- Late July Snacks: Nicole Bernard Dawes. Crackers and Cookies were Failing… Tortilla Chips Saved Them
- Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor
- Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 31 mentions in 23 episodes 1 per episode
- Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
- Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel
- Crumbl: Jason McGowan
- Snap: Evan Spiegel
- 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
- Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 45 mentions in 25 episodes 2 per episode
- Olipop: Ben Goodwin
- Specialized Bicycle Components: Mike Sinyard
- Weee!: Larry Liu
- 21 Seeds: Kat Hantas
- Advice Line with Sadie Lincoln of barre3
- Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
- Advice Line with Michael Preysman of Everlane
- Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 40 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- Freshpet: Scott Morris
- HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton
- Mary's Gone Crackers: Mary Waldner
- When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
- KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin
- Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo
- The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
- Everlane: Michael Preysman
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 39 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Food: Sukhi Singh and Dalbir Singh
- Dang Foods: Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn
- Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
- Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
- HIBT Lab! Goodr: Jasmine Crowe-Houston
- HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
- HIBT Lab! Wonder: Marc Lore
- Discord: Jason Citron
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 31 mentions in 19 episodes 2 per episode
- Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
- Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler
- Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
- Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- Numi Organic Tea: Reem Hassani and Ahmed Rahim
- How I Built Resilience: Bayard Winthrop of American Giant
- How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 35 mentions in 19 episodes 2 per episode
- method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
- How I Built Resilience: Live with Y-Vonne Hutchinson
- Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- Khan Academy: Sal Khan
- Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
- How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes
- Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
- Dropbox: Drew Houston
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →