Episodes
11 years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
56 episodes in 2017
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32m Live Episode! The Home Depot: Arthur Blank
In this live episode of How I Built This, Arthur Blank shares how he and Bernie Marcus turned a sudden corporate firing into The Home Depot, building it into a retail powerhouse while priori…
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26m Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard (2016)
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard about his journey from forging climbing pitons in a chicken coop to leading an iconic, mul…
17 statements 4 featured 6 assessments
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39m LearnVest: Alexa von Tobel
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews entrepreneur Alexa von Tobel, tracing how childhood adversity and widespread American financial illiteracy drove her to drop out …
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41m Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson
In this live episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz interviews media pioneer Robert 'Bob' Johnson, charting how he leveraged emerging satellite technology, strategic partnerships,…
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36m Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Tom Chappell about pioneering natural personal care with Tom's of Maine, overcoming major operational and philosophical cri…
15 statements 5 featured 8 assessments 2 contradicted
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40m Zumba: Beto Perez & Alberto Perlman (January, 2017)
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz charts how Colombian immigrants Beto Perez, Alberto Perlman, and Alberto Aghion transformed an accidental dance-aerobics routine int…
13 statements 5 featured 1 assessments
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57m Framebridge: Susan Tynan
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz speaks with Framebridge founder Susan Tynan about turning a frustrating, overpriced framing experience into a disruptive direct-to-c…
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56m Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield
In this episode of How I Built This, Guy Raz interviews Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who trace their path from opening a modest Burlington ice cream scoop shop in a converted gas station …
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31m Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
In this archival episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger about turning a simple photo-filtering prototype into a globa…
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46m Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher
In this episode of 'How I Built This', designer Eileen Fisher recounts how she transformed a $350 investment into an iconic, employee-owned $300 million fashion brand by embracing minimalist…
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50m Chipotle: Steve Ells
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz speaks with Chipotle founder Steve Ells about how a classically trained chef accidentally created a multi-billion-dollar fast-casual d…
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45m Burton Snowboards: Jake Carpenter
Burton Snowboards founder Jake Burton Carpenter shares the entrepreneurial journey of transforming a primitive snow toy into a global sporting empire, navigating intense industry resistance,…
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41m Bumble: Whitney Wolfe
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' Whitney Wolfe Herd recounts how marketing ingenuity, personal resilience, and the drive to counter online toxicity led her from co-founding Tinde…
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43m Teach For America: Wendy Kopp
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz speaks with Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp about how she transformed an ambitious college thesis into a nationwide educational…
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59m Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, Gary Hirshberg recounts how he and Samuel Kaymen navigated nine years of severe debt, operational disasters, and family loans to build Stonyfield F…
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48m Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz
Recorded live before an audience in Seattle, host Guy Raz interviews Howard Schultz on NPR's 'How I Built This,' tracing Schultz's journey from Brooklyn public housing to transforming Starbu…
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35m Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher (2016)
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher about transforming a regional Texas commuter startup into an aviation titan thr…
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56m The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This', Guy Raz interviews Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karman about how they resurrected, voiced, and transformed the legacy cartoon characters Alvin…
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48m Barre3: Sadie Lincoln
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, Sadie Lincoln describes how she and her husband Chris walked away from corporate careers to build Barre3, a global boutique fitness empire centered…
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52m Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Recorded live in San Francisco, this episode of How I Built This features Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian discussing the platform's humble beginnings, rapid acquisition, …
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47m Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid
This episode of NPR's How I Built This chronicles Tariq Farid's rise from a teenage immigrant florist in Connecticut to the founder of Edible Arrangements, a global fruit bouquet franchise. …
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36m Radio One: Cathy Hughes (2017)
In this archival episode of How I Built This, Cathy Hughes recounts her historic journey from teenage motherhood and severe financial hardship to founding Urban One, the largest African-Amer…
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54m Rent The Runway: Jenn Hyman
In this episode of How I Built This, Rent the Runway co-founder Jenn Hyman details how she transformed a disruptive fashion-rental concept into a hundred-million-dollar powerhouse while navi…
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41m Kickstarter: Perry Chen
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen about the unconventional eight-year journey to create the revolutionary crowdfunding platform. …
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48m Live Episode! BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti
Recorded live in New York, this episode of 'How I Built This' features BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti discussing his journey from viral prankster to digital media pioneer. Peretti…
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36m Samuel Adams: Jim Koch (2017)
In this archival episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch, who discusses leaving a prestigious consulting career to resurrect a ninetee…
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42m Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Raegan Moya-Jones, who transformed aden + anais from a moonlit side project into a hundred-million-dollar global baby brand by in…
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46m Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner about the magazine's origins in 1960s counterculture, its rise into an iconic journalisti…
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29m Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz speaks with Spanx founder Sara Blakely about how she transformed $5,000 in savings and a cut-up pair of pantyhose into a billion-dol…
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43m TRX: Randy Hetrick
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews former Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick on how he engineered the TRX suspension trainer from a jujitsu belt, navigated catastrophic manufa…
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47m WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
In this episode of NPR's "How I Built This," host Guy Raz interviews WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey about his path from an Oregon counterculture commune to co-founding a multi-billion-dol…
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41m Carol's Daughter: Lisa Price
This episode of NPR's How I Built This chronicles Lisa Price's journey of founding Carol's Daughter, detailing how she turned kitchen-made beauty formulations into a multi-million-dollar cos…
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35m Five Guys: Jerry Murrell
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Five Guys founder Jerry Murrell about transforming a single, family-funded Virginia hamburger shop into a multi-billion-dol…
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53m TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie details his journey from serial startup founder to establishing TOMS Shoes, exploring how a simple one-for-one giving model overcame extreme production hurdles to become a glo…
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38m Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Compaq co-founder Rod Canion about leaving Texas Instruments to engineer the first 100% IBM-compatible portable computer, navigat…
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45m Whole Foods Market: John Mackey
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, Whole Foods Market co-founder and CEO John Mackey shares the story of turning a small, flooded Austin natural grocery into a publicly traded, multi…
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40m Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, Tony and Maureen Wheeler share how their 1970s overland journey across Asia sparked a self-published travel pamphlet that grew into the global guid…
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44m Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter
In this episode of How I Built This, music manager and venture capitalist Troy Carter shares his journey from impoverished roots in West Philadelphia to orchestrating Lady Gaga's meteoric ri…
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50m Real Estate Mogul: Barbara Corcoran
This episode of NPR's How I Built This chronicles Barbara Corcoran's rise from working-class New Jersey roots to founding Manhattan's premier real estate brokerage and orchestrating its $66 …
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40m 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Guy Raz interviews Brian Scudamore, who describes how he dropped out of college to start a junk-hauling business with a single pickup truck and scaled 1-800-GOT-JUNK? into an international f…
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39m Instacart: Apoorva Mehta
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Instacart founder Apoorva Mehta about his journey from tech worker and serial startup failure to building a multi-billion-d…
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32m AOL: Steve Case
Host Guy Raz interviews AOL co-founder Steve Case to chronicle how America Online overcame near-bankruptcy, fierce competition, and technical crises to bring millions of everyday families on…
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41m Power Rangers: Haim Saban
In this episode of How I Built This, Guy Raz interviews media titan Haim Saban, charting his journey from an impoverished refugee to a billionaire entertainment mogul behind Mighty Morphin P…
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42m Kendra Scott: Kendra Scott
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews entrepreneur Kendra Scott on how she overcame early business failure and economic crisis to transform a $500 spare-bedroom startu…
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33m 5-Hour Energy: Manoj Bhargava
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Manoj Bhargava on how he transitioned from living as a Hindu monk to building the multi-billion-dollar 5-Hour Energy empire…
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41m Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu
On NPR's How I Built This, entrepreneur Mei Xu recounts how she journeyed from 1970s China to the United States and built Chesapeake Bay Candle into a multi-million-dollar home fragrance pow…
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49m Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews serial entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell about launching the video game and family entertainment industries through the creation of Ata…
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29m Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal
Gordon Segal recounts the entrepreneurial journey of co-founding Crate & Barrel with his wife Carol, explaining how they built a multi-billion-dollar housewares empire by importing affordabl…
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25m Live Episode! Beyond Meat: Ethan Brown
In this live episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz interviews Beyond Meat founder and CEO Ethan Brown about his mission to revolutionize the global food system with plant-based m…
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39m Lyft: John Zimmer
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Lyft co-founder John Zimmer about transforming a campus carpooling project named Zimride into a multi-billion-dollar on-demand ri…
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39m Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz interviews Kate and Andy Spade about the gritty bootstrapping, personal sacrifices, and breakthrough moments that propelled their mi…
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33m Virgin: Richard Branson
In this episode of NPR's How I Built This, Richard Branson recounts his rise from a dyslexic high school dropout to the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group, exploring his philosophy of b…
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28m Zappos: Tony Hsieh
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews entrepreneur Tony Hsieh about how he overcame investor skepticism, dot-com financial peril, and personal sacrifice to build Zappo…
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29m Honest Tea: Seth Goldman
In this episode of NPR's 'How I Built This,' host Guy Raz speaks with Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman about identifying an overlooked beverage niche, overcoming severe operational and sup…
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32m Drybar: Alli Webb
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews entrepreneur Alli Webb about how she bootstrapped a casual mobile blowout service into Drybar, a category-defining nationwide sal…
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37m Zumba: Beto Perez & Alberto Perlman
In this episode of How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews Zumba co-founders Beto Perez and Alberto Perlman about transforming an improvised Colombian dance-aerobics class into a multi-mil…
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