Episodes
11 years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
16 episodes in 2016
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30m Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
This episode of NPR's How I Built This explores how Warby Parker co-founders Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal disrupted the optical industry by creating an accessible, direct-to-consumer eyew…
17 statements 4 featured 8 assessments 1 contradicted
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36m Melissa & Doug: Melissa And Doug Bernstein
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Melissa and Doug Bernstein, who share how they bootstrapped a multi-million-dollar toy empire focused on timeless, screen-free wo…
14 statements 5 featured 3 assessments
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25m Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard shares how his unconventional philosophy, commitment to environmental stewardship, and aversion to traditional cor…
18 statements 6 featured 7 assessments
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33m Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban
In this episode of How I Built This, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban charts his trajectory from a scrappy, debt-burdened salesman to a pioneering tech titan behind MicroSolutions and Bro…
12 statements 4 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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29m Angie's List: Angie Hicks
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Angie Hicks, detailing how she overcame early operational hurdles and intense sales burnout to transform Angie's List from a cram…
10 statements 3 featured 4 assessments
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33m Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher
On NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz interviews Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher about revolutionizing commercial aviation through relentless legal perseverance, operational …
19 statements 6 featured 13 assessments
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27m Celebrity Chef: José Andrés
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews celebrity chef José Andrés about his journey from childhood cookouts in Spain and avant-garde training at El Bulli to pione…
12 statements 4 featured 1 assessments
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31m Music Mogul: L.A. Reid
In this episode of How I Built This, legendary music executive L.A. Reid chronicles his journey from Cincinnati drummer and hitmaking producer to building LaFace Records and leading major mu…
13 statements 7 featured 5 assessments
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33m Samuel Adams: Jim Koch
On this episode of NPR's How I Built This, Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch shares how he left corporate consulting, revived a nineteenth-century family recipe, and used grassroots guerr…
18 statements 7 featured 10 assessments 2 contradicted
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38m Dermalogica: Jane Wurwand
Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand shares her journey on NPR's How I Built This, explaining how she transformed her mother's lessons on vocational self-reliance into the International Dermal I…
19 statements 6 featured 2 assessments 1 contradicted
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41m Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
In this episode of 'How I Built This', host Guy Raz interviews Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia about the company's evolution from a scrappy rent-paying experiment into a global hospitality mark…
18 statements 6 featured 4 assessments
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35m VICE: Suroosh Alvi
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Vice Media co-founder Suroosh Alvi, exploring his journey from debilitating heroin addiction to co-founding a disruptive co…
14 statements 6 featured 6 assessments
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27m Clif Bar: Gary Erickson
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz chronicles how Gary Erickson founded Clif Bar from his mother's kitchen, scaled it through grassroots perseverance, and famously tur…
18 statements 5 featured 11 assessments 1 contradicted
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31m Radio One: Cathy Hughes
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Cathy Hughes, who chronicles her journey from teenage motherhood and facing 32 loan rejections to founding Radio One and building…
22 statements 5 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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28m Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
In this episode of NPR's "How I Built This," host Guy Raz interviews Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger about transforming a failing prototype into a global visual phenomen…
19 statements 7 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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26m Spanx: Sara Blakely
In this inaugural episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Spanx founder Sara Blakely, exploring how she transformed $5,000 in personal savings and cut-up pantyhose into a …
16 statements 4 featured 5 assessments 1 contradicted