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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…”
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…”
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: 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 …”
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…”