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How I Built This (Guy Raz)

Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds. How I Built This is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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Said on How I Built This (Guy Raz)

“When we went public, the stock went up to $50 in the first month. And, you know, people are inviting Heather and I to their castles in Italy, right? And then a year later, the stock's at $5 and it's like we murdered their firstborn, right?” — Trina Spear, How I Built This (Guy Raz)
Trina Spear · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I feel like most of the expansion that we've done or that we did early on was entirely based in fear.” — Karrie League, How I Built This (Guy Raz)
Karrie League · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I got some business books at the library. This is not going to be that hard at all. We can totally do this. And it was, I don't know, I say often my two greatest strengths at the time were arrogance and ignorance that just drove me forward because I should have thought it through maybe a little bit more.” — Tim League, How I Built This (Guy Raz)
Tim League · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's really just about cost of goods. You're paying a majority of the ticket on first-run movies to the studio. And on food, you're paying what rounds to 25% of just food costs, right? So you have a much better profit margin.” — Tim League, How I Built This (Guy Raz)
Tim League · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I feel like nothing in business is complicated. It's hard. Like Kinko's was hard, but it wasn't complicated. And I think the problem is when we take this approach of that something's complicated, it scares us. We can't do it. It's too difficult.” — Jamie Siminoff, How I Built This (Guy Raz)
Jamie Siminoff · 5 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I don't think you need to raise money. And I feel like everybody tells you that you have to.… You don't have to be the next anthropic and you probably won't be.” — Michelle Wahler, How I Built This (Guy Raz)
Michelle Wahler · 17 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…I don't think the average consumer cares nearly as much as I do about organic flavors and their sparkling water.” — Nicole Bernard Dawes, How I Built This (Guy Raz)
Nicole Bernard Dawes · 31 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

How I Built This (Guy Raz) is hosted by Guy Raz and Stacey Vanek Smith .

Recent Episodes

  1. 2 Nov 2026

    Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: “I Was a Great Founder and a Terrible CEO”

    With Brian Chesky

  2. 29 Oct 2026

    Advice Line with Tope Awotona of Calendly

    With Tope Awotona , Dom Cotton and Ivana Tay

  3. 26 Oct 2026

    FIGS: Trina Spear and Heather Hasson. The $2.5 Billion Scrubs Brand That Investors Said Would Never Work

    With Heather Hasson and Trina Spear

  4. 22 Oct 2026

    Advice Line with Seth Berkowitz of Insomnia Cookies

    With Seth Berkowitz , Kaino Matene , Tara Gilman and Carol Deshaun

  5. 19 Oct 2026

    Sweet Loren’s: Loren Castle. How A Recipe Makeover Built a National Cookie Brand

    With Loren Castle

  6. 15 Oct 2026

    Advice Line with Tara Bosch of SmartSweets

    With Tara Bosch , Lindsay Shanks and Allie Aguilar

  7. 12 Oct 2026

    Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League (2023)

    With Tim League and Karrie League

  8. 8 Oct 2026

    Advice Line with Nick Green of Thrive Market

    With Nick Green , Mercedes Smith , Danny Walsh and Ria Jane

  9. 5 Oct 2026

    10 Years of How I Built This: A Decade of Innovation, Risk and Reinvention

    With Jamie Siminoff , Katrina Lake and Sam Calagioni

  10. 1 Oct 2026

    Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring (2025)

    With Scott Tannen , Jamie Siminoff and Melita Cyril

  11. 28 Sep 2026

    Seventh Generation: Alan Newman and Jeffrey Hollender. A Partnership that Flourished—until it Failed. (2021)

    With Jeffrey Hollender and Alan Newman

  12. 24 Sep 2026

    Advice Line with Danny Meyer of Shake Shack

    With Danny Meyer , Janelle Bass and Jade Taylor

Guests

Troy Carter (7 episodes), Jamie Siminoff (6 episodes), Sadie Lincoln (6 episodes), Marcia Kilgore (6 episodes), David Neeleman (6 episodes), Fawn Weaver (5 episodes), Eric Ryan (5 episodes), Jim Koch (5 episodes), Pete Maldonado (5 episodes), Sarah LaFleur (5 episodes), Miguel McKelvey (5 episodes), John Zimmer (5 episodes), and 744 more.