How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.
קטגוריה: מדע וטכנולוגיה תגיות: מדע וטכנולוגיה
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Karissa Bodnar had a dream job at L'Oréal when a close friend died from cancer at age 24. It shook her up and made her reassess what00:48:18 14/09/2026 -
Today’s callers: Juliette in France wonders how to raise awareness of her “magical” cooling device—without a costly ad campaign.00:38:50 10/09/2026
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Kim’s inspiration to launch a business came from an unlikely source: Her son’s Crocs. She thought the durable, washable material01:23:26 07/09/2026
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Today’s callers: Darin from North Carolina seeks guidance on consumer education as his ghee-based snack brand grows into major retailers.00:48:01 03/09/2026
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Late July Snacks: Nicole Bernard Dawes. Crackers and Cookies were Failing… Tortilla Chips Saved ThemNicole Bernard Dawes spent much of her childhood hanging out in her dad’s potato chip factory on Cape Cod. She01:20:39 31/08/2026
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Today’s callers: Cristopher from Chicago wants to expand his family’s salsa brand from farmers markets into retail. Next, Darcy in00:42:55 27/08/2026
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Roy and Ryan were avid outdoorsmen who wanted a cooler that wouldn’t break. So they built one themselves.The result01:25:24 24/08/2026
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Today’s callers: Shawn from Saskatchewan weighs whether brand-building or licensing is best for his card-based party game. Then Shirin00:42:58 20/08/2026
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Laura Modi set out to build a better infant formula. What followed was years of setbacks: a crippling dispute with the FDA,01:19:48 17/08/2026
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Today's callers: Bob in Chicago looks to promote his cabbage-based muscle and joint rub beyond the walls of his orthopedic practice.00:48:21 13/08/2026
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What do you do when the family business you've spent decades building... gets bought out from under you? That’s what01:05:43 10/08/2026
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Today’s callers: Tony in Michigan is considering bringing on partners to run different parts of his brew pub and theater business.00:45:32 06/08/2026
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Many founders think the hardest thing about business is finding customers.It's not.It's surviving success.When01:15:44 03/08/2026
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Today’s callers: Adrian from California wants to grow his apparel company to complete with big-name athletic brands. Then, Preet00:46:21 30/07/2026
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Chuck Surack never planned to build one of America's largest online retailers. He just wanted to be a musician. So right after high01:12:21 27/07/2026
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Today’s callers: Andy from Sarasota weighs whether the path to scalability for his live game show business is through personality00:41:46 23/07/2026
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After waiting too long to pay his restaurant bill, Aman Narang thought there had to be a better way. His first idea—a00:51:02 20/07/2026
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Today’s callers: Matt from New York City unpacks the stigma working against his line of foot wellness products. Then Emefa in Toronto00:45:35 16/07/2026
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Tom Rinks got his start in the commission-only "shark tank" of midwestern furniture sales. That’s where he learned what makes customers01:15:34 13/07/2026
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Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams founder Jeni Britton joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:48:52 09/07/2026
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Krishna Kaliannan wanted to start a tech company but failed at every attempt. On the side, he was teaching01:03:57 06/07/2026
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Today’s callers: Ann from Nashville asks how to adapt her jewelry business in the face of rising gold prices. Then Felix in Martha’s00:43:26 02/07/2026
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In 2004, Joey Shamah and his partner launched a cosmetics company built on an idea that made almost no sense:Sell high-quality01:14:49 29/06/2026
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Today’s callers: Ruchi from Chicago looks for advice on which channels to focus distribution for her probiotic skincare line. Then00:43:38 25/06/2026
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Stephen Starr didn’t plan to get into the restaurant business.He set out to be a radio DJ. Then a nightclub owner. Then a01:14:00 22/06/2026
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Today’s callers: Daisy in the United Kingdom looks to grow her barefoot shoe brand across the pond in the United States. Then Rachel00:45:03 18/06/2026
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When Maxine Clark left a top job in retail to start a make-your-own stuffed animal store, people thought she’d lost her mind. Investors01:04:04 15/06/2026
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Today’s callers: Whitney in Utah wonders how to bridge the gap between pre-seed and institutional investment for her fitness/retail00:45:17 11/06/2026
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In 2004, German programmer Tobias Lütke was living in Ottawa with his girlfriend.An avid snowboarder, he wanted to launch00:58:48 08/06/2026
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Entrepreneur, author, and podcaster Tim Ferriss joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:47:25 04/06/2026
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In 1978, Brian Smith quit his accounting job in Australia and headed to California with a surfboard, some savings, and ambition.01:28:23 01/06/2026
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Today’s callers: Kristina in Ohio looks for avenues beyond organic social media to market her furniture designed for toddlers and00:46:05 28/05/2026
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At 25, Justin Gold was making experimental peanut butter in his home kitchen with a food processor and a stack of recipe journals.01:27:22 25/05/2026
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Today’s callers: David from New Jersey struggles with self-doubt as he works to grow his muscle-scraping soap brand. Then, Marnie00:48:29 21/05/2026
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NVIDIA is one of the most valuable companies in human history. Its chips run the AI systems transforming everything from entertainment01:07:18 18/05/2026
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Today’s callers: Kristina in Florida wants to take her local pottery workshops nationwide. Then Jim from Colorado wonders if00:41:47 14/05/2026
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John Gabbert built a massive furniture brand. But in order to do it, he had to defy his family. John grew01:01:49 11/05/2026
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Today’s callers: Anthony from Miami considers the best method to grow his pop-up outdoor movie theater business. Then Andrew in San00:43:00 07/05/2026
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Gregg Renfrew started a movement by making better-for-you cosmetics, then enlisted an army of women to build the business through01:12:47 04/05/2026
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Today’s callers: Barbara in Massachusetts wonders how her nutrition education theater company might live on past her own involvement.00:44:24 30/04/2026
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In the late 1990s, Shep and Ian Murray looked at a shrinking category–men’s ties–and saw an opportunity: a necktie isn’t just functional.01:08:04 27/04/2026
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Today’s callers: Christina from California wonders how to build trust with her fragrance brand formulated without allergens. Then,00:40:18 23/04/2026
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What if the thing you care about most ... might be what’s holding your business back?Daniel Lubetzky didn’t leave his law01:05:31 20/04/2026
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Today’s callers: Alec from California wonders if it’s time to bring production for his beef tallow skincare brand out of his00:51:03 16/04/2026
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Colin Angle didn’t start out trying to clean people’s floors.He started out trying to shape the future–with robots. In01:03:13 13/04/2026
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Today’s callers: Rebecca from Australia wants to make her small-batch spirits stand out in a crowded market. Then, Sri from England00:42:48 09/04/2026
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A lot of founders spend their lives chasing one big idea.Antonio Swad had two.The first? Migrating chicken wings from01:18:55 06/04/2026
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Today’s callers: Michelle from California assesses the trade offs of accepting outside investment to scale her organic granola brand.00:49:56 02/04/2026
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Back in the early days of ecommerce, Marc Lore took a classic retail loss leader–diapers– and turned it into a DTC giant–01:13:13 30/03/2026
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Serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore — founder of brands like Beauty Pie and Soap & Glory — joins Guy on the Advice Line, where00:40:35 26/03/2026
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For decades, a dozen eggs was just… a dozen eggs.No story. No real branding. No reason to care who produced them.Then01:08:15 23/03/2026
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In today’s special episode, Guy and four former show guests talk with callers about how they can prove the value of their products—and00:37:35 19/03/2026
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Aaron Krause did not set out to reinvent the kitchen sponge. He was a car detailer, building buffing pads and the machines that made01:29:17 16/03/2026
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Today’s callers: Heather from Ontario talks through a DTC strategy for her retail pain relief tape and patches. Then Nawal in Michigan00:44:32 12/03/2026
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Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M BusinessAt 40, Beryl Stafford’s00:58:48 09/03/2026
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Today’s callers: Jane in Minnesota wants to scale her artful pants brand while staying true to her locally-made mission. Then Melissa00:44:50 05/03/2026
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Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a BrandMost founders expand the “right” way: local →01:00:24 02/03/2026
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Today’s callers: Jess from Washington seeks counsel on structuring a collaboration between her sympathy cards company and a pet products00:41:15 26/02/2026
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Most entrepreneurs think the hardest part of building a company is the product.For Jim McKelvey — co-founder of Square — the01:11:54 23/02/2026
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Today’s callers: Yadi from New York thinks through an expansion strategy for her college campus-based empanada business. Then, Zachary00:48:42 19/02/2026
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Before Spinbrush became the top selling toothbrush in the U.S—and before Procter & Gamble paid $475M for it—John Osher was a01:00:52 16/02/2026
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Today’s callers: Mia from Germany wants to know how to balance her pottery business between an online shop and a YouTube channel.00:46:03 12/02/2026
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Netflix shouldn’t have survived.In 1997, Blockbuster owned home entertainment—9,000 stores, a business fueled01:24:59 09/02/2026
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Plus, Jon’s take on why now is a good time to start a business — in spite of market uncertainty. Today’s00:46:26 05/02/2026
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In the late 2000s, two French mountain athletes set out to build a running shoe that captured the feeling of flying. Jean-Luc00:55:41 02/02/2026
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Plus, Mark on his most challenging venture yet: revolutionizing the prescription drug market in America.First we meet Lucy00:53:13 29/01/2026
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A bright blue guitar covered in orange koi fish vanished from a museum display … and Swifties immediately knew what it meant.That01:09:32 26/01/2026
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Plus, how candor has been a more effective press strategy than talking points for (the literal) Mrs. Meyer.First we meet Allison00:40:40 22/01/2026
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Before Gymboree became a cultural icon in the 80s and 90s, it was just one lonely new mom trying to find connection. Joan Barnes01:20:21 19/01/2026
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Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:45:44 15/01/2026
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When Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti met at a grunge concert in Seattle in the 1980s, they were an unlikely pair. But they shared01:08:36 12/01/2026
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Patreon co-founder and CEO Jack Conte joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about00:53:30 08/01/2026
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It started with a massive pile of razors sitting in a Rancho Cucomonga warehouse, and Michael Dubin’s chance meeting of the man who00:52:20 05/01/2026
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This week, Guy is joined by TRX exercise straps founder Randy Hetrick, chicken restaurant giant Raising Cane’s Todd Graves, and Chesapeake00:43:44 01/01/2026
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For decades, snack companies believed Americans wanted everything sweeter.More sugar. More chocolate. More01:24:14 29/12/2025
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Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders who are each00:50:43 25/12/2025
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Exploding Kittens began as a jerry-rigged version of Russian Roulette — a deck of cards hastily modified with a Sharpie.01:27:53 22/12/2025
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Tempur-Pedic founder Bobby Trussell joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Bobby00:44:02 18/12/2025
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What happens when three outsiders try to reinvent access to money… during the worst financial crisis in decades?Before Kickstarter.Before01:07:16 15/12/2025
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CEO and co-founder of Boll & Branch, Scott Tannen joins Ring founder Jamie Siminoff and Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions00:43:26 11/12/2025
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Khan Academy offers hundreds of free tutorials in fifty languages, and has 170 million monthly global users. It01:18:16 08/12/2025
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Jane Wurwand, co-founder of the global skincare brand Dermalogica, joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from00:52:19 04/12/2025
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Meridith Baer grew up on the grounds of San Quentin prison, acted in TV and movies, wrote scripts in Hollywood … and then, at 50,01:03:26 01/12/2025
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Bill Creelman, CEO and founder of Spindrift, joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:48:59 27/11/2025
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What if the idea that changes your life… starts with something as ordinary as being thirsty?In 2007, Travis Rosbach walked01:04:08 24/11/2025
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Squarespace founder Anthony Casalena joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:48:16 20/11/2025
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At 19, Ben Francis was lifting weights during the day and delivering pizza at night. He didn’t have money. He didn’t have fashion01:16:44 17/11/2025
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Chet Pipkin, former CEO and founder of the electronic goods company Belkin International, joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer00:47:28 13/11/2025
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In his 20’s, working an office job he hated, Tom woke up in the middle of the night with a wild idea: why not take people on bike00:50:50 10/11/2025
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Tariq Farid the founder of Edible Arrangements joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:50:02 06/11/2025
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In 2010, software engineer Natalie Gordon was pregnant– and fed up with the overwhelming baby aisles in big box stores. So01:07:43 03/11/2025
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Wayfair co-founder Niraj Shah joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs about how to00:44:07 30/10/2025
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A century ago, Jeff Braverman’s grandfather opened a peanut shop in Newark, New Jersey. By the early 2000s, the family business was01:12:16 27/10/2025
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Lyft co-founder John Zimmer joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, John talks about00:50:42 23/10/2025
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What happens when a charismatic home renovator marries a budding design whiz? You get the billion-dollar powerhouse that is Chip01:33:47 20/10/2025
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Stacy’s Pita Chips co-founder Stacy Madison joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:54:46 16/10/2025
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When identical twins Mike and Alex Faherty launched their clothing brand, they made a daring move– launching wholesale, retail, and01:13:21 13/10/2025
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Dollar Shave Club founder Michael Dubin joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Michael00:53:54 09/10/2025
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What if the best startup isn’t sexy at all? In 2013, Vijen Patel left private equity to pursue “the least-worst idea”: dry cleaning.01:06:23 06/10/2025
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Tony Xu, founder of DoorDash, joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs. Plus, Tony updates00:49:13 02/10/2025
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What if the founder of one of the internet’s most enduring brands… never wanted to run a company?In 1995, Craig Newmark was01:05:06 29/09/2025
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Randy Hetrick, former Navy SEAL and founder of the suspension training company TRX, joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions00:52:24 25/09/2025
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A decade ago, Allison Ellsworth was drinking apple cider vinegar for health reasons and doctoring it with fruit so she could stand01:06:48 22/09/2025
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Bobbi Brown, founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and Jones Road Beauty, joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from00:45:43 18/09/2025
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Many of us don’t know our neighbors anymore — and Nirav Tolia wanted to change that. He walked away from millions in stock options01:08:05 15/09/2025
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Priority Bicycles founder and CEO Dave Weiner joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus,00:55:46 11/09/2025
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In the summer of 2000, Razor scooters were everywhere—on sidewalks, in schools, even in Silicon Valley offices. At the center of01:13:50 08/09/2025
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This week, Guy is joined by Lady Gaga’s former manager Troy Carter, Joe Gebbia of Airbnb, and Sadie Lincoln of barre3 in a special00:37:56 04/09/2025
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What does it take to turn a Brooklyn beer salesman into the king of iced tea?In the early 1990s, the iced tea market was dominated00:59:35 01/09/2025
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Entrepreneur, author, and podcaster Tim Ferriss joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:46:06 28/08/2025
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In 2001, three web designers built a quirky email tool called Mailchimp.It wasn’t their main business.It wasn’t even01:19:28 25/08/2025
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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders about balancing short-00:51:54 21/08/2025
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Amy Errett had a successful career in finance and venture capital before taking a leap into an entirely new business: hair color.01:18:07 18/08/2025
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In 2021, Daniel Humm shook up the dining world by making his 3-Michelin-star restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, 100% plant-based.No00:43:08 13/08/2025
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Crumbl may be a cookie business – but Jason McGowan turned it into a fast-growing restaurant chain by building it like a tech startup.01:04:34 11/08/2025
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Chesapeake Bay Candle and Blueme founder Mei Xu joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:41:48 07/08/2025
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Long before he became famous as the sharp-tongued TV personality who launched the careers of pop stars, Simon Cowell was a rebellious01:08:20 04/08/2025
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Isaac Larian is the founder of MGA Entertainment, the company behind Bratz and LOL Surprise dolls. This week, he00:42:50 31/07/2025
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Long before founding Torchy’s Tacos, Mike Rypka was a troubled teenager trying to outrun his own self-destruction. Growing up around01:24:33 28/07/2025
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Former manager of Lady Gaga and Atom Factory founder Troy Carter joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three00:43:28 24/07/2025
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As a Harvard squash player, Will Ahmed discovered his game improved when he focused on things like sleep, diet, and time spent01:05:43 21/07/2025
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Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Justin00:39:46 17/07/2025
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As a newly arrived immigrant from Turkey, Hamdi Ulukaya learned to be resourceful, determined, and even stubborn when he needed to01:28:12 14/07/2025
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Iconic fashion designer Norma Kamali joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early stage founders. Plus,00:50:34 10/07/2025
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Rick Steves spent the summer after high school backpacking through Europe on two dollars a day—sleeping on the floor, sneaking into01:17:34 07/07/2025
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Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders about finding00:51:11 03/07/2025
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After falling in love with the gelato shops of Buenos Aires, Josh Hochschuler came home to Dallas with a bold idea: bring authentic01:12:35 30/06/2025
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Method co-founder and serial entrepreneur Eric Ryan joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:46:45 26/06/2025
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On a trip to Las Vegas, Chris Riccobono found himself wearing the same J.Crew shirt over and over; it was the only dress shirt he01:13:47 23/06/2025
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Serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore — founder of brands like Beauty Pie and Soap & Glory — joins Guy on the Advice Line, where00:39:52 19/06/2025
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The dashboard in your car – the interface on your Zoom screen … many of the products we interact with every day were created with01:14:47 16/06/2025
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Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about00:46:54 12/06/2025
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Bill and Leigh Keith had an extraordinary childhood, travelling the country in a school bus with their parents and ten siblings.01:26:30 09/06/2025
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Sir Kensington’s co-founder and former CEO Mark Ramadan joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they work through business challenges00:51:00 05/06/2025
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In 2008, Vicky Tsai walked away from a startup job and set out to rediscover herself on a trip to Japan. In Kyoto, she had an unforgettable01:17:11 02/06/2025
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Springfree Trampoline founder Steve Holmes joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:47:19 29/05/2025
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As a young entrepreneur in the Wild West days of the internet, Alex Tew was drawn to meditation for its simple calming power. Together01:17:43 26/05/2025
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This week, Guy is joined by Travis Boersma of Dutch Bros. Coffee, Michael Preysman of Everlane and Chris Ruder of Spikeball in a00:44:19 22/05/2025
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Western wear is having a moment – and so is the upstart Western brand Tecovas. Founder Paul Hedrick is a Texan who realized that01:12:13 19/05/2025
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Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. He also gets00:52:03 15/05/2025
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Substack was founded to create an escape vehicle for writers: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie imagined a world where writers didn’t01:18:19 12/05/2025
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Virgin Group founder Richard Branson joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus,00:42:35 08/05/2025
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Brad Baxter sidelined a promising career in the car industry to build a better cat litter box – an undertaking that embarrassed his01:04:13 05/05/2025
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Duolingo co-founder Luis von Ahn joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Luis shares00:47:26 01/05/2025
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Cookware is a $73 billion global industry - awash in all kinds of pots and pans. Like, if you’ve ever cooked scrambled eggs, you've01:15:44 28/04/2025
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Sweetgreen’s co-founder Jonathan Neman joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Sweetgreen’s00:48:11 24/04/2025
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What started as a design project for Stanford student Evan Spiegel quickly flourished into one of the most-used social media platforms01:06:48 21/04/2025
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Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Andy shares00:48:13 17/04/2025
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When Wiliam Wang started selling flat-screen TV’s, he used a winning playbook: partner with an efficient manufacturer, cut out the00:57:48 14/04/2025
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RXBAR co-founder Peter Rahal joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about positioning00:42:44 10/04/2025
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As a college basketball player, Missy Park was lucky to grow up during the early era of Title IX, the 1972 law that created new opportunities01:20:24 07/04/2025
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Jack Black Skin Care co-founders Jeff and Curran Dandurand join Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage00:48:06 03/04/2025
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While apple picking on a farm near Philadelphia, Abhi Ramesh learned that a massive amount of “misfit” produce goes to waste. He01:05:25 31/03/2025
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Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams founder Jeni Britton joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:46:08 27/03/2025
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Dr. Dennis Gross was worried about putting his name on his skincare brand: would the word “gross” turn shoppers away? But Dennis00:50:25 24/03/2025
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Taskrabbit founder Leah Solivan joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three tech founders working to identify00:49:21 20/03/2025
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In the early 2000s, one of the most popular pieces of software in the world was a free peer-to-peer file-sharing network called Kazaa.01:10:21 17/03/2025
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Rent the Runway co-founder and CEO Jenn Hyman joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs.00:45:54 13/03/2025
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After racking up thousands of dollars in fines, Chicago roommates Mark Lawrence and Jeremy Smith figured there had to be an easier01:07:37 10/03/2025
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Zumba co-founder and CEO Alberto Perlman joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:49:12 06/03/2025
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During its formative years in the late 1990's, Paypal attracted an extraordinary group of young entrepreneurs, who then went on to01:23:31 03/03/2025
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Herschel Supply Co. co-founder Lyndon Cormack joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders00:46:08 27/02/2025
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When Barry Turner co-founded Lenny & Larry’s, the idea of selling a protein-packed breakfast muffin was practically unheard of:01:04:58 24/02/2025
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Parachute Home founder Ariel Kaye joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders on being mindful00:51:16 20/02/2025
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Mrs. Meyer’s is a hugely successful line of soaps and cleansers named for a real Mrs. Meyer: a no-nonsense Iowa homemaker who raised01:21:18 17/02/2025
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Dutch Bros co-founder and former CEO Travis Boersma joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage00:45:06 13/02/2025
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When Michelle Wahler and Jodi Guber Brufsky set out to launch a yoga wear brand in 2005, they had no idea that it would eventually00:56:58 10/02/2025
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Tatcha co-founder and former CEO Vicky Tsai joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:49:11 06/02/2025
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Sam and Mariah Calagione started dating in high school, and have been on a wild ride ever since. Their biggest, craziest adventure?01:19:52 03/02/2025
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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Joe00:51:38 30/01/2025
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If you’ve ever bought sports merch or bet on a big-league game, you’ve likely spent money on Fanatics. It’s a massive one-stop-shop00:56:48 27/01/2025
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Simple Mills founder Katlin Smith joins Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three founders about knowing how, when, and00:49:52 23/01/2025
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When Ben Leventhal first started blogging about New York City’s restaurant scene in the early 2000s, he was doing it as a hobby.00:55:57 20/01/2025
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Patreon co-founder and CEO Jack Conte joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about00:52:15 16/01/2025
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David Heath and Randy Goldberg saw an opportunity to disrupt a long dormant—and arguably boring sector...socks. They met at a startup01:21:38 13/01/2025
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LÄRABAR founder Lara Merriken joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Lara00:50:46 09/01/2025
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By his early 20s, Todd Graves knew exactly what he wanted to do—open a restaurant near Louisiana State University that would make01:21:45 06/01/2025
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CAVA co-founder and CEO Brett Schulman joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders00:49:52 02/01/2025
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The company behind the blockbuster acne fighter, Mighty Patch, was launched in 2017 with a single product sold exclusively on Amazon.01:14:15 30/12/2024
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Serial entrepreneur and U.S. National Bobsled Team qualifier Marc Lore joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions00:47:06 26/12/2024
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When Kip Tindell co-founded The Container Store in 1978, people laughed at him for wanting to sell empty boxes. But Kip and his partners01:02:38 23/12/2024
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AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:45:21 19/12/2024
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No athlete wishes for an injury, but when Kurt Ainsworth’s bad shoulder derailed his professional pitching career, it created a big01:10:32 16/12/2024
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Jane Wurwand, co-founder of the global skincare brand Dermalogica, joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from00:52:17 12/12/2024
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When Norma Kamali studied fashion illustration in the 1960s, she never expected to become a designer. So when a job as an airline01:29:12 09/12/2024
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Clif Bar founder Gary Erickson joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about expanding00:57:54 05/12/2024
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As Texas A&M students in the mid 2000's, Cory Cotton, Tyler Toney and their housemates spent countless hours playing hockey in01:28:43 02/12/2024
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Iconic fashion designer Norma Kamali joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early stage founders. Plus,00:50:23 28/11/2024
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In a small beach town on Australia’s sunshine coast, Koel Thomae tasted a yogurt that would change her life: creamy, infused with01:07:26 25/11/2024
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Spikeball founder and CEO Chris Ruder joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:48:54 21/11/2024
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Bill Shufelt founded Athletic Brewing Company to re-invent non-alcoholic beer, but quickly learned that brewers didn’t want to make01:04:23 18/11/2024
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Stonyfield co-founder and former CEO Gary Hirshberg joins Guy on the Advice Line where they answer questions from three early-stage00:44:59 14/11/2024
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Scott and Missy Tannen knew nothing about bed linens when they dreamed up the idea of launching a bedding company, but that didn’t01:09:12 11/11/2024
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1-800-GOT-JUNK? founder and CEO Brian Scudamore joins Guy on the Advice Line where they answer questions from three early-stage founders. First00:46:35 07/11/2024
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When Matt Meeker started sharing a Brooklyn apartment with a Great Dane, he didn’t know it would inspire him to launch a multi-million01:06:09 04/11/2024
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Angie Hicks, founder of Angi (formerly Angie’s List), joins Guy on the Advice Line where they answer questions from three early-stage00:49:18 31/10/2024
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In 1989, after years of scaling some of the most challenging peaks in the world, Peter Metcalf took on a daunting new risk: resuscitating00:54:36 28/10/2024
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This is part two of our special series on building food businesses presented by Klaviyo. If you haven't heard part one from last00:37:04 25/10/2024
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Everlane co-founder and former CEO Michael Preysman joins Guy on the Advice Line where they answer questions from three early-stage00:49:48 24/10/2024
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Kat Hantas turned her home hobby of infusing Tequila into a $160 million business. Her story began when her nightly glass of wine01:06:22 21/10/2024
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Innovation is a constant in the food industry. But it’s incredibly difficult to go from a tasty idea to an actual spot on the grocery00:36:16 18/10/2024
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LÄRABAR founder Lara Merriken joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders. Plus, Lara00:50:37 17/10/2024
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Clicking a button to book vacation tours might feel normal today, but Rod Cuthbert helped create that future through his company,01:09:10 14/10/2024
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This week, Guy is joined by Fawn Weaver of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, Andrew Abraham of Orgain, and Brett Schulman of CAVA to00:41:28 10/10/2024
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In 2007, when James Hirschfeld got the idea to start an online invitation company, the first person he turned to for help was his01:06:25 07/10/2024
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This week, Guy is joined by Leah Solivan of TaskRabbit, Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza, and Holly Thaggard of Supergoop! to00:38:24 03/10/2024
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When it comes to launching a multi-million dollar brand, Cynthia Tice was a late bloomer. Nearly 60 and looking for a healthy way01:07:14 30/09/2024
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Tatcha co-founder and former CEO Vicky Tsai joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:48:27 26/09/2024
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In 2014, Ben Weprin decided to take people’s best college memories and spin them into a new business: Graduate Hotels. Each of the01:05:51 23/09/2024
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barre3 co-founder and CEO Sadie Lincoln joins Guy on the Advice line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders.00:53:43 19/09/2024
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Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan started Barefoot Wine with $300,000 in debt and almost no knowledge of wine. What they did understand01:15:10 16/09/2024
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Taskrabbit founder Leah Solivan joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three tech founders working to identify00:48:54 12/09/2024
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Andrew Mason was a 27-year-old with a degree in music when he co-founded one of the fastest growing companies of all time: Groupon.01:11:25 09/09/2024
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MOD Pizza founders Scott and Ally Svenson join Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders about strategic00:45:51 05/09/2024
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When Ben Goodwin was growing up, the concept of healthy soda seemed as oxymoronic as jumbo shrimp. But for Ben, that presented an01:09:05 02/09/2024
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Parachute Home founder Ariel Kaye joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders on being mindful00:50:49 29/08/2024
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When Seth Berkowitz was in college, he was the cookie guy on campus. He’d grown frustrated that the only food he could get delivered01:17:16 26/08/2024
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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders about balancing short-00:51:06 22/08/2024
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With $1500 in savings and no experience in retail, Mel and Patricia Ziegler stumbled upon a clever idea: buy inexpensive Army surplus01:31:09 19/08/2024
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Supergoop! founder Holly Thaggard joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders about finding the00:47:21 15/08/2024
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In 2013, Nick Green set out to solve a vexing problem: in many parts of the country, it’s hard to get access to healthy groceries.00:54:53 12/08/2024
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Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three founders about finding00:50:57 08/08/2024
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Tara Bosch wasn’t always considered a likely contender for success. At 21 years old, she dropped out of college the summer before01:14:48 05/08/2024
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Harry’s and Warby Parker co-founder Jeff Raider joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they talk with three founders grappling with00:46:18 01/08/2024
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Mike Sinyard helped put mountain biking on the map. In the 1970’s, he founded Specialized Bicycle Components to do exactly what the00:56:11 29/07/2024
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What does it take to successfully market a brand today? Last month, Guy sat down with marketing expert Jim Stengel to find out.Jim00:28:05 26/07/2024
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Vuori founder Joe Kudla joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they work through business challenges with three early-stage founders.Today00:43:59 25/07/2024
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Swiss triathlete and Ironman champion Olivier Bernhard was warned not to challenge the goliaths in the sneaker industry. But, inspired01:15:59 22/07/2024
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In case you missed it, we’re rerunning one of our first Advice Line episodes. Chomps co-founder and co-CEO Pete Maldonado joins Guy00:51:44 18/07/2024
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Paul English is a perpetual founder. Since high school, he's started 3 philanthropies and 8 companies—ranging from e-commerce, to01:10:34 15/07/2024
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Kona Ice co-founder and CEO Tony Lamb joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders.Today00:47:51 11/07/2024
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Ouidad Wise found the inspiration for her multi-million-dollar business right on top of her own head. She turned her passion for01:04:23 08/07/2024
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CAVA co-founder and CEO Brett Schulman joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders00:48:46 04/07/2024
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Bayard Winthrop founded American Giant in 2011 with the simple idea to sell clothes made entirely in America at a time when most01:21:45 01/07/2024
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Sir Kensington’s co-founder and former CEO Mark Ramadan joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they work through business challenges00:50:47 27/06/2024
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Ronnen Harary built a 4 billion dollar toy company without relying on market research or focus groups. Instead, he believed wholeheartedly01:06:03 24/06/2024
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S’well founder Sarah Kauss joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about positioning00:49:10 20/06/2024
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Dominique Ansel’s invention of the Cronut — an inspired liaison between croissant and donut — was supposed to be a one-time indulgence01:03:23 17/06/2024
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Bombas co-founder and Chief Brand Officer Randy Goldberg joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage00:49:03 13/06/2024
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Dave’s Hot Chicken began as a tiny pop-up, selling spicy chicken tenders and fries from a tent in East Hollywood. Their homemade01:06:13 10/06/2024
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In case you missed it, we’re rerunning our Advice Line launch episode from a few weeks ago. Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey founder00:37:24 06/06/2024
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Growing up in the ‘80s in New Jersey, Marc Ecko loved hip hop, graffiti art, and painting t-shirts for friends. His passion soon01:24:35 03/06/2024
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Tarte cosmetics founder and CEO Maureen Kelly joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders00:47:03 30/05/2024
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Brothers Dick and Peter Dreissigacker used their experience as Olympic-level rowers to build a rowing machine that captured01:00:42 27/05/2024
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Sun Bum co-founder Tom Rinks joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about refining00:43:27 23/05/2024
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The Theragun was born out of a late-night experiment with a Makita jigsaw, by a man searching desperately for pain relief in his01:11:08 20/05/2024
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Orgain founder and CEO Andrew Abraham joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about00:51:48 16/05/2024
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When Madeline Haydon decided to turn her homemade, plant-based coffee creamer into a business, she didn’t fit the mold of a typical00:56:38 13/05/2024
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Clif Bar founder Gary Erickson joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders about expanding00:54:40 09/05/2024
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As co-founder of Twitter and founder of Blogger and Medium, Evan Williams literally helped change the conversation: he understood01:14:36 06/05/2024
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Former guest Pete Maldonado, co-founder and co-CEO of Chomps, joins Guy for another “Advice Line” edition of HIBT Lab. In00:50:53 02/05/2024
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Five years before he became a massively successful content creator, Dhar Mann was nearly broke and living in a studio apartment.01:24:54 29/04/2024
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Former guest Fawn Weaver, founder of Uncle Nearest Whiskey, joins Guy for an “Advice Line” edition of HIBT Lab. Three early-stage00:36:42 25/04/2024
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With over 14.5 million subscribers, Rosanna Pansino has one of the most popular baking channels on YouTube But she never would00:59:47 22/04/2024
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Growing up, Danielle Walker’s family often convened for big meals prepared by her Italian grandmother, Grandma Marge. Back then,00:47:49 18/04/2024
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As one of the most successful creators on YouTube, Mark Rober doesn’t see what he does as a business. Instead, it’s a way to01:09:17 15/04/2024
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For decades, Shane Legg has anticipated the arrival of “artificial general intelligence” or AGI. In other words: an artificial00:37:19 11/04/2024
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Best friends Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal started out as “comedians for Christ,” and grew their partnership into one of the most01:18:10 08/04/2024
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Best-selling author and economics professor Renée Mauborgne thinks that too many entrepreneurs focus on the wrong things—consumed00:29:12 04/04/2024
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Whole30 began as a dietary experiment: For 30 days, Melissa Urban went without grains, dairy, legumes, alcohol and added sugar. She01:06:11 01/04/2024
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The popular science fiction idea of beaming someone instantly to another location was part of David Nussbaum’s inspiration to design00:34:49 28/03/2024
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Isaac Larian moved from Iran to Los Angeles at age 17 with just a few hundred dollars, and went on to build one of the biggest toy01:14:04 25/03/2024
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“Growth is not about the genius you possess—it’s about the character you develop.” That’s what organizational psychologist00:37:05 21/03/2024
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If you told 19-year-old Larry Liu that his hobby re-selling used electronics “for fun” would someday help him build a multi-billion-dollar01:24:50 18/03/2024
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Imran Chaudhri and his wife Bethany Bongiorno are responsible for bringing some of the most widely-used screened products to market—like00:45:51 14/03/2024
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Mark Sisson made a big bet on mayonnaise, and won: four years after launching his Paleo-friendly condiment company Primal Kitchen,01:07:51 11/03/2024
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Gene Berdichevsky and his team have been working for over a decade to solve a major problem: Lithium-ion batteries are not getting00:40:09 07/03/2024
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In 2016, Fawn Weaver became fixated on a New York Times article telling the little-known story of Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved01:12:14 04/03/2024
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What if you could no longer trust the things you see and hear?Because the signature on a check, the documents or videos presented00:32:17 29/02/2024
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When the iPhone 4 was released in 2010, Manish Chandra was dazzled by its picture quality, and saw an opportunity for a new type01:06:22 26/02/2024
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When Tristan Harris co-founded the Center for Humane Technology in 2018, he was trying to educate tech leaders and policymakers about00:28:36 22/02/2024
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In 2002, John MacFarlane and his co-founders began tinkering on what was then an ambitious idea: create a new way to enjoy music01:00:20 19/02/2024
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There’s a new car coming to market that will probably make its owners search out the sunniest spots in the parking lot… Aptera Motors00:39:50 15/02/2024
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Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz founded Magic Spoon to create a sugary breakfast cereal without the sugar. If that sounds daunting, consider01:11:45 12/02/2024
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Cutting emissions alone will not be enough. To avoid the worst effects of global climate change, Heirloom CEO and co-founder Shashank00:27:08 08/02/2024
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In 2012, Ariel Kaye saw a tantalizing opportunity, but wasn’t sure she was the one to seize it. She’d never started a brand and didn’t01:12:11 05/02/2024
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“If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, then we’re going to get what we’ve got—and what we got ain’t working.”ICON00:42:05 01/02/2024
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Tiffany Masterson was a stay-at-home mom in her 40s when she launched her skin care brand, Drunk Elephant, in 2013. Six years later,01:31:12 29/01/2024
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When Jim Koch created Samuel Adams Boston Lager in 1984, American craft beer was still in its infancy. But forty years and thousands00:37:40 25/01/2024
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Mike Cessario came up with the idea for a viral water brand by asking himself “What is the dumbest possible idea we could have?”01:19:14 22/01/2024
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Thai Sade is the co-founder and CEO of BloomX, a company that has developed crop-pollinating technology to replicate natural pollinators00:32:09 18/01/2024
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The apparel industry - be it high fashion or everyday wear - is a crowded and noisy market to crack. Just think about the sheer number01:12:38 15/01/2024
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Allyson Felix is the most decorated American track and field athlete of all time. She’s also a mother. Those two identities came00:51:21 11/01/2024
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After emigrating from Nigeria to the US to attend college, Tope Awotona worked as a door-to-door salesman and eventually set out01:10:09 08/01/2024
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A special look back at some of our favorite How I Built This Lab episodes of 2023. Hear how Pinky Cole built the vegan fast food00:56:13 04/01/2024
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In 2006, Paige Mycoskie walked into one of the most exclusive boutiques in LA, wearing her handmade clothes and hoping to get a meeting01:08:57 01/01/2024
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Rivian’s all-electric vehicles have been in high demand thanks to their unique look and handy features. But soon after hitting the00:35:40 28/12/2023
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KiwiCo founder Sandra Oh Lin took an after-school pastime and turned it into a multi-million-dollar business. After quitting a high-powered00:52:45 25/12/2023
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Our modern way of life requires more resources than ever before — resources that are becoming increasingly scarce and environmentally00:37:54 21/12/2023
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In 2000, Luis von Ahn was starting his PhD in computer science when he attended a talk and happened to learn about one of Yahoo's01:07:51 18/12/2023
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Warby Parker co-CEOs Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa broke their scrappy startup into the eyewear industry in 2010—putting legacy00:39:22 14/12/2023
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When Hernan Lopez founded Wondery in 2016, podcasts were just starting to go mainstream. Five years later, his team had scored a01:16:48 11/12/2023
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Andrew Lacy is the co-founder and CEO of Prenuvo, a company offering full body scans that have the potential to detect disease early00:40:57 07/12/2023
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In 2010, a tragic personal event changed the trajectory of Nancy Twine's life. Suddenly, her promising job at Goldman Sachs no longer01:13:53 04/12/2023
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Collaboration is the new competition: that was French entrepreneur Lucie Basch’s philosophy when she approached a group of Danish00:41:43 30/11/2023
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When Ted Xenohristos and two childhood friends opened their first sit-down Greek restaurant in 2006, they had no idea it would eventually01:16:44 27/11/2023
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Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov is convinced that his company’s vehicles are better at driving than any human. Dmitri has spent thousands00:41:55 23/11/2023
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When Michael Preysman founded Everlane, he knew nothing about fashion–he just wanted to see if he could build an online platform01:13:05 20/11/2023
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When it comes to carbon emissions, there’s a major culprit you might not have heard about: cement. The production of cement emits00:30:33 16/11/2023
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Priority Bicycles founder Dave Weiner quit his job as a software CEO to pursue a risky idea: building a new kind of bike. In01:07:30 13/11/2023
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Steve Ells changed the restaurant industry once when he founded Chipotle in 1993. His idea for fast, freshly prepared food became00:42:16 09/11/2023
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Kona Ice founder Tony Lamb had a knack for sales since he was a teenager - a skill that served him well when he decided to sell Hawaiian-style01:13:36 06/11/2023
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How does a brand live on after its founders leave the company – especially one that was inspired by their family and their culture?00:41:20 02/11/2023
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Rob Kalin founded Etsy for people like him: makers and hobbyists. In 2005, he was kicking around New York trying to find buyers for01:21:41 30/10/2023
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The past few years have challenged Whitney Wolfe Herd like never before. The Bumble CEO kept the company afloat as the pandemic halted00:46:03 26/10/2023
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Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan were only college students when they created Sir Kensington’s, a $140-million-dollar condiment01:35:53 23/10/2023
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Back as the show’s first-ever ‘three-peat’ guest is Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite. The events industry has been transformed00:48:34 19/10/2023
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Brothers Jamie and Lyndon Cormack founded Herschel Supply Co to sell modern bags with a timeless feel. While working in the sports01:03:44 16/10/2023
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Ramya Swaminathan is the CEO of Malta Inc, a company that spun out of Google’s moonshot factory in 2018 to work on an energy storage00:35:01 12/10/2023
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Freshpet co-founder Scott Morris helped transform pet food by sidestepping traditional kibble and cans, and making slice-and-serve01:10:07 09/10/2023
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Biofire founder and CEO Kai Kloepfer believes there’s at least one way to decrease gun deaths in America. Early next year, his company00:36:27 05/10/2023
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Vuori founder Joe Kudla built a 4-billion-dollar company on a risky idea: that men actually cared about the clothes they worked out01:07:36 02/10/2023
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Redefine Meat co-founder and CEO Eshchar Ben-Shitrit long had aspirations to lead a company, though he never imagined taking the00:38:40 28/09/2023
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Amanda Klane and Drew Harrington are childhood friends, and co-founders of Yasso; they defied the advice of experts by creating a01:12:13 25/09/2023
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Pierre Thiam is a renowned chef, restaurant owner, cookbook author, and co-founder of Yolélé – a company working to introduce the00:42:19 21/09/2023
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By her early thirties, Ava DuVernay was already a successful entrepreneur, having founded her own film publicity agency in Los Angeles.01:33:06 18/09/2023
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Millions of Americans don’t have enough to eat — a startling fact considering 40% of the food produced in the U.S. gets thrown away.00:45:43 14/09/2023
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In 1998, Curran Dandurand and a colleague from Mary Kay Cosmetics came up with an unorthodox idea: a premium skincare brand for men.01:01:00 11/09/2023
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Over one hundred billion garments will be produced this year, but they don’t have to be. Peter Majeranowski says we have00:29:30 07/09/2023
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Before Steven Udvar-Hazy was out of high school, he started working as an airline consultant. You could do that sort of thing back01:06:56 04/09/2023
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Our brain activity can reveal a lot about our physical and mental health. And thanks to Ramses Alcaide and his team at Neurable,00:35:17 31/08/2023
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In 2005, the trajectory of Holly Thaggard's life completely changed when a good friend of hers was diagnosed with skin cancer. Holly01:11:45 28/08/2023
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Not only is BETA Technologies completely changing the flying experience with its all-electric aircraft, it’s upending the logistics00:40:30 24/08/2023
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Kinko’s copy shops were once so ubiquitous that the name became a kind of shorthand for photocopying. Paul Orfalea started the first01:01:34 21/08/2023
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Tom Szaky runs a recycling company, but he’d rather live in a world where recycling was obsolete... Today, his company00:43:43 17/08/2023
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Over a nine-year period, Spencer and Jeff Jan grew Solo Stove from a DIY project into a 9-figure brand. Their original idea was modest:01:01:20 14/08/2023
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Most of us are dependent on our smartphones. In fact, Americans spend an average of three hours a day on these devices — devices00:32:32 10/08/2023
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A life-threatening diagnosis changed the course of Andrew Abraham’s career and led him to found some of the most popular nutritional01:13:08 07/08/2023
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There’s a new car coming to market that will probably make its owners search out the sunniest spots in the parking lot...Aptera00:39:55 03/08/2023
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Tetris is one of the most popular video games of all time, and Henk Rogers helped make it happen. He first discovered the game at01:07:28 31/07/2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic changed education forever. But Sal Khan says an even bigger educational revolution is just around the corner00:37:58 27/07/2023
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A relentless hunt for their favorite foods and drinks led Scott and Ally Svenson into launching not one but two multi-million01:27:30 24/07/2023
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Chris Urmson is one of the founding fathers of the autonomous vehicle industry. He participated in three DARPA self-driving vehicle00:40:01 20/07/2023
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On the premise that a smartphone could vastly improve his love life, Joel Simkhai built one of the most popular dating apps in the01:09:29 17/07/2023
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Keller Rinaudo Cliffton thinks we’re already experiencing the technology of tomorrow, just that it’s not evenly distributed...About00:38:39 13/07/2023
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While working as a psychologist in the Bay Area helping people with their problems, Mary Waldner discovered one of her own; at the01:06:43 10/07/2023
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Matanya Horowitz is not above dumpster diving in the name of innovation. His company, AMP Robotics, has developed robots to help00:32:34 06/07/2023
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While working long hours as a Wall Street analyst, Melissa Butler started making lipstick in her kitchen as a hobby. But it soon01:11:50 03/07/2023
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When Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck met in 2011, they had no intention of starting a business. Aryé was a cardiologist, and Justin00:42:54 29/06/2023
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From a coffee cart parked uneasily in a grocery parking lot, Travis and Dane Boersma grew Dutch Bros into a sprawling chain of 700-plus01:17:32 26/06/2023
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When Donnel Baird was a child, his parents would regularly use the oven to heat their Brooklyn apartment -- a dangerous and energy-inefficient00:47:36 22/06/2023
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When Chris Ruder set out to revive a ball-and-net game from his childhood, he was pretty sure he would fail. He wasn’t really into01:09:30 19/06/2023
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Palm oil is a wonder ingredient, used in almost everything from toothpaste and oat milk to biodiesel and laundry detergent. But to00:42:36 15/06/2023
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Two college-era friends set out to change the face of shaving—and in the process, took on one of the biggest companies in the world.01:13:24 12/06/2023
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Millions of American households rely on oil for heat. Growing up in New Hampshire, Kathy Hannun was familiar with this decades-old00:31:46 08/06/2023
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Tory Burch didn’t set out to make her name into a brand; she didn’t even set out to get into fashion. As a matter of fact, she sort01:09:35 05/06/2023
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“Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with.” - Seth GodinYearning to find00:41:31 01/06/2023
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Thomas Keller is one of the best—and best known—chefs in America, but it took him 40 years to get there. He took a long, winding01:15:38 29/05/2023
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Drive. Docs. Chrome. Maps. Gmail. Android. What do these products have in common? Of course, they’re all Google, but what you may00:36:22 25/05/2023
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In the early 1990’s, Tim League spent $50,000 in savings to lease an abandoned movie theater on the wrong side of the tracks—a shaky01:17:39 22/05/2023
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Davis Smith has spent the last nine years building the outdoor gear and clothing brand, Cotopaxi. The company’s slogan, Gear for00:44:43 18/05/2023
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For Monique Rodriguez, hair care was a hobby; she never thought she could build a business. In fact, after high school, Monique followed01:10:44 15/05/2023
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Pricey down payments have put homeownership out of reach for many Americans, especially those who don’t have access to intergenerational00:42:57 11/05/2023
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In 2010, Justin McLeod was in business school, still trying to get over a bad breakup that had happened years before. Determined01:32:28 08/05/2023
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What would it take to build America’s first solar-powered town? What about a town that could withstand a direct hit from a hurricane?00:39:48 04/05/2023
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When Fokke de Jong started selling suits out of his dorm room in Amsterdam in the late 90's, he wasn’t planning on becoming the next01:18:48 01/05/2023
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Lily Hevesh never could have imagined that the videos of domino tricks she started posting for fun at 10 years old would eventually00:41:54 27/04/2023
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Peter Sterios discovered yoga by accident when he was in college, and wound up—also by accident—launching a multimillion-dollar business01:10:26 24/04/2023
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Joe Laurienti, a former SpaceX and Blue Origin engineer, launched Ursa Major in 2015 with the idea that 3D printing could revolutionize00:38:39 20/04/2023
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In one of the most remarkable feats ever performed by a frozen dessert, Halo Top ice cream became the best-selling pint in America01:14:30 17/04/2023
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It’s hard not to love cheese: feta, brie, gruyère, parmesan, pepper jack, mozzarella, asiago...it’s all delicious! But there’s a00:37:42 13/04/2023
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Ellen Latham would probably have been happy teaching classes at her popular fitness studio in south Florida until she turned ninety.01:05:13 10/04/2023
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In 2016, Nuseir Yassin quit his cushy tech job to embark on a journey around the globe. The idea was simple: post a one-minute video00:44:07 06/04/2023
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When Jeff Lawson co-founded Twilio in 2008, he had already been through a series of start-ups. Some succeeded, others fizzled01:14:53 03/04/2023
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According to the 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world needs to cut carbon emissions drastically00:38:51 30/03/2023
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Tom Rinks not only understands the art of branding, he can explain it with the passion and precision of a master teacher. In 2009,01:15:15 27/03/2023
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It’s hard to miss a Slutty Vegan when you’re driving past one. No, we’re not talking about a person… We’re talking about00:53:20 23/03/2023
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In the early 1990s, as Amanda Hesser's college friends were interviewing for their first cubicle jobs, she chose a different path;01:30:25 20/03/2023
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Allyson Felix is the most decorated American track and field athlete of all time. She’s also a mother. Those two identities came00:50:32 16/03/2023
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In 2007, Steven Sashen went on a 5K run in his bare feet, an experience that felt so surprisingly natural that it led him to launch01:24:30 13/03/2023
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Collaboration is the new competition: that was French entrepreneur Lucie Basch’s philosophy when she approached a group of Danish00:40:17 09/03/2023
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As a teenager, Michael Kors filled his notebooks with dress designs and doodles of his own initials—casual sketches that would eventually01:17:22 06/03/2023
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Barbers have played a central role in the Black community throughout American history. Haircutting was one of the first jobs that00:36:06 02/03/2023
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Before Jim VandeHei co-founded the media company Politico, the only thing he’d managed was the night shift at Little Caesar’s01:20:05 27/02/2023
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Commercial air travel has been stuck below the sound barrier for about 20 years, since the Concorde’s last flight in 2003. While00:40:21 23/02/2023
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With a passion for design and a skill for sewing, Mike Pfotenhauer grew a bespoke backpack business into one of the world’s most00:59:53 20/02/2023
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Artificial Intelligence was once the realm of science fiction. But over the last several years, advances in machine learning and00:58:31 16/02/2023
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Wherever Bill Simmons is, he’s obsessed with helping his team win. During 14 tumultuous years as a creative force at ESPN, that meant01:21:16 13/02/2023
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Biobot Analytics founders Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli first met in a poop lab. Yep, you read that correctly...Their company00:37:08 09/02/2023
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Working as a manager for nine years at JCPenney, Tom Campion learned a critical lesson about how to succeed in retail: you have to00:56:23 06/02/2023
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Chef Sean Sherman is on a mission to revitalize and reimagine Native American cuisine. Growing up on a reservation in00:35:45 02/02/2023
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When steaks don’t sell you shift to sticks; that’s how Chomps was born. After several failed ventures—one of which left him bankrupt—Pete01:25:19 30/01/2023
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Do you know who holds the record for making the world’s largest chicken nugget? How about the world’s largest sushi roll?If00:42:44 26/01/2023
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Let’s say you had a passion but thought of it only as a hobby; certainly never the seed of a billion-dollar company. Plus, you are01:21:27 23/01/2023
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When you think about self-driving cars, you might imagine relaxing in the back seat while a vehicle carries you to your destination.00:39:02 19/01/2023
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In 2007, brothers Hank and John Green lived thousands of miles apart, so they started posting video blogs to each other on a strange01:24:12 16/01/2023
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On October 9, 2012, Shiza Shahid’s life changed forever. It was on that day that 15-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai00:46:03 12/01/2023
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In 2012, Daina Trout, her husband Justin, and her best friend Vanessa Dew were sitting around a kitchen table spit-balling possible00:57:50 09/01/2023
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Chelsea Fagan got her first credit card when she was a senior in high school. She quickly maxed it out, racking up debt that would00:40:10 05/01/2023
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When he was 8 years old, Joel Clark loaded bags of his mom's whole grain pancake mix into a red wagon to sell door-to-door. By the01:14:34 02/01/2023
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YouTubers Kelsey MacDermaid and Becky Wright – better known as The Sorry Girls – have always had an affinity for production. When00:44:17 29/12/2022
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As a music industry mogul and founder of I.R.S. Records, Miles Copeland prided himself on making deals that were easy to say “yes”01:07:21 26/12/2022
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According to the CDC, 6 in 10 adults in the U.S. have a chronic disease like cancer or diabetes. Meanwhile, the process for discovering00:33:37 22/12/2022
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Working as a Hollywood makeup artist in the early 2000s, Rea Ann Silva designed a sponge that reshaped the face of beauty. She'd01:10:47 19/12/2022
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It was a love for Ricky Martin that started it all...Beatriz Acevedo thought that if she could only become a DJ, she could00:37:27 15/12/2022
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With no formal training in business or computer design, Nelson Gonzalez and his cofounders decided to do what almost no other company01:14:57 12/12/2022
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Growing up in Ethiopia in the 1980s and ‘90s, Sara Menker saw the devastating effects of drought and famine firsthand. Later as a00:38:43 08/12/2022
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Growing up in 1960's Chicago, Dave Anderson didn't eat much deep dish. Instead, his dad took the family to the South Side for barbecue,01:15:54 05/12/2022
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Growing up, Andrew Rea dreamed of becoming a Hollywood filmmaker. But the special effects production job he landed after college00:46:57 01/12/2022
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In the mid-1990’s most Americans had probably never even heard of yerba mate, but when David Karr and Chris Mann were first introduced01:11:33 28/11/2022
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Millions of Americans don’t have enough to eat — a startling fact considering 40% of the food produced in the U.S. gets thrown away.00:45:22 24/11/2022
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Anthony Wood helped transform the media landscape…twice. First, in the early 2000’s, when he invented a device that let you01:12:33 21/11/2022
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‘This is not our customer...’ That was the common justification banks used to deny loans to the entrepreneurs Shivani00:34:20 17/11/2022
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As a newly arrived immigrant from Turkey, Hamdi Ulukaya learned to be resourceful, determined, and even stubborn when he needed01:30:13 14/11/2022
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Our planet is warming, and many parts of the world are not equipped to accurately predict the heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes,00:40:46 10/11/2022
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When you think of pizza, the first place that comes to mind probably isn’t Finland…or Scotland. But that’s where the two founders01:09:46 07/11/2022
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“Right now I have approximately 70-ish subscribers,” declared a teenage Marques Brownlee at the beginning of his 100th YouTube video00:49:54 03/11/2022
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Steve Kaufer got the idea for Tripadvisor in 1998 after spending way too many hours online, trying to figure out if a resort in Mexico01:15:24 31/10/2022
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Most of us are familiar with rideshare apps at this point. We tap a few buttons on a phone and...voila! A vehicle arrives to take00:50:48 27/10/2022
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The story of Bluemercury is packed with business lessons—for starters, it’s always good to have a backup plan. That’s what Marla01:11:08 24/10/2022
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Commercial air travel has connected humans across the globe in extraordinary ways. This connection, however, comes with a cost: about00:37:37 20/10/2022
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Craig Culver says that when he opened the first Culver’s restaurant in a small Wisconsin town, there were three cars in the parking01:07:46 17/10/2022
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Cassey Ho is the face of Blogilates, best known for its free online workout videos which have more than a billion views on YouTube00:34:26 13/10/2022
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When Brian Lam walked away from a high-profile job at Gizmodo to launch a product review blog, he had no plan for how it would make01:09:31 10/10/2022
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Growing up, Danielle Walker’s family often convened for big meals prepared by her Italian grandmother, Grandma Marge. Back then,00:46:58 06/10/2022
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Back in 2015, when Mike Salguero set out to buy some grass-fed beef for himself and his wife, he had to meet a farmer in a parking01:19:42 03/10/2022
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Artificial Intelligence was once the realm of science fiction. But over the last several years, advances in machine learning and00:57:20 29/09/2022
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Obsessed with TV and passionate about writing, Issa Rae sent an unsolicited script to CBS’s Cosby when she was01:20:05 26/09/2022
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Picture this: you just wrapped a long day of work and you are starving! You open a delivery app and place an order from your favorite00:40:23 22/09/2022
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David Heath and Randy Goldberg saw an opportunity to disrupt a long dormant—and arguably boring sector...socks. They met at a startup01:21:34 19/09/2022
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Water is all around us–quite literally, there is enough water in the air we breathe to meet all of humanity’s needs and then some.00:38:37 15/09/2022
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When you consider the risk of doing business, it doesn’t get much bigger than starting a car company: competition is formidable,01:14:19 12/09/2022
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On October 9, 2012, Shiza Shahid’s life changed forever. It was on that day that 15-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai00:45:35 08/09/2022
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In 2009, Sarah Kauss had a well-paying job in real estate development, but she was itching to do something more. On a hike in Tucson01:04:22 05/09/2022
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You might not expect a deep friendship to bloom from an argument about favorite authors...in a Miami bar...during spring break. Yet01:07:12 01/09/2022
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In 1970, George Zimmer was a college graduate with no real job prospects and little direction. That's when his father, an executive01:00:13 29/08/2022
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Pierre Thiam was robbed within days of arriving in New York City. It was 1989, and he had just traveled to the U.S. from Senegal00:41:01 25/08/2022
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As a girl in 1970s London, Jo Malone learned how to make face creams by going to work with her mom at a private skin care clinic.01:16:50 22/08/2022
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Growing up, Andrew Rea dreamed of becoming a Hollywood filmmaker. But the special effects production job he landed after college00:46:20 18/08/2022
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In 2003, David Baszucki wanted to go viral. He had already sold a company that made educational software, and now he wanted01:01:57 15/08/2022
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In 2014, friends Polina Veksler and Alex Waldman went clothes shopping at a major department store. To Polina’s surprise, Alex’s00:47:29 11/08/2022
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When Saeju Jeong moved from South Korea to the U.S. in his mid-20's, he barely knew anyone, didn't speak much English, and had only01:10:27 08/08/2022
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Growing up in Colombia, Carlos Araque and his father liked to take apart bicycles and motorcycles then put them back together. This00:39:26 04/08/2022
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Sam and Mariah Calagione started dating in high school, and have been on a wild ride ever since. Their biggest, craziest adventure?01:19:46 01/08/2022
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It wasn’t unusual for David Kelley to take calls from Steve Jobs in the middle of the night. This came with the territory, as David00:40:19 28/07/2022
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Over nearly 50 years in the luggage business, Charlie Clifford has built two premium brands and weathered three existential crises:01:07:12 25/07/2022
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This week on How I Built This Lab, we're throwing it back to our very first Lab episode.In this episode, Guy sits down with00:38:45 21/07/2022
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In 2011, when Emmett Shear pivoted the live streaming service Justin.tv into the video game platform Twitch, people warned him that01:22:06 18/07/2022
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Chelsea Fagan got her first credit card when she was a senior in high school. She quickly maxed it out, racking up debt that would00:39:14 14/07/2022
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One snowy night in Boston, Leah Solivan ran out of dog food for her 100-pound yellow lab. She wondered: shouldn’t I be able01:15:14 11/07/2022
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When Donnel Baird was a child, his parents would regularly use the oven to heat their Brooklyn apartment — a dangerous and energy-inefficient00:47:06 07/07/2022
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While she was a student at business school, Shazi Visram ran into an old friend—a new mother of twins. The friend confided she felt01:08:51 04/07/2022
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According to the 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world needs to cut carbon emissions drastically00:37:39 30/06/2022
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Jimmy Fallon may talk like a comedian, but he thinks like a restless entrepreneur. In addition to his day job as host of The01:11:50 27/06/2022
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YouTubers Kelsey MacDermaid and Becky Wright – better known as The Sorry Girls – have always had an affinity for production. When00:43:12 23/06/2022
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After PayPal sold to eBay in 2002, Max Levchin could have relaxed on a beach for the rest of his life. But that’s not the kind00:57:56 20/06/2022
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Serial entrepreneur Mark Cuban was one of the very first guests on How I Built This, way back in 2016. Mark has been founding and00:34:16 16/06/2022
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During its formative years in the late 1990's, Paypal attracted an extraordinary group of young entrepreneurs, who then went on to01:28:10 13/06/2022
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Drive. Docs. Chrome. Maps. Gmail. Android. What do these products have in common? Of course, they’re all Google, but what you may00:34:56 09/06/2022
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While working at his local record store at age 20, Ryan Schreiber dreamt that his scrappy music review webpage might one day grow01:16:52 06/06/2022
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When Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck met in 2011, they had no intention of starting a business. Aryé was a cardiologist, and Justin00:42:22 02/06/2022
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When Adi Tartako and her husband started the home design and renovation website Houzz in 2009, they had no expectation that it would01:16:59 30/05/2022
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From the outside, it seemed like Andy Dunn was living the dream. His menswear company, Bonobos, was acquired by Walmart for $31000:36:52 26/05/2022
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Starting a business with your spouse can either bring you closer together or tear you apart. For Arran and Ratana Stephens, their01:17:36 23/05/2022
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Like so many of us, author Johann Hari noticed that the more time he spent looking at screens and switching from device to device,00:29:44 19/05/2022
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Eric Liedtke spent 26 years at Adidas, working his way up from an entry level position to Executive Board Member and Global Brand00:28:10 16/05/2022
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When Payal Kadakia first appeared on How I Built This in June of 2020, the future of ClassPass, a subscription service for in-person00:31:29 12/05/2022
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Pete Warhurst probably would not have picked “entrepreneur” as a career when he was growing up. He loved his job as a firefighter01:20:00 09/05/2022
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Cassey Ho is the face of Blogilates, best known for its free online workout videos which have more than a billion views on YouTube00:34:02 05/05/2022
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Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath were two friends from college with a good idea and bad timing: in 1995, they set out to create a01:19:52 02/05/2022
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Lloyd Armbrust spent the bulk of his career in newspaper operations and advertising...until early 2020 when he started hearing about00:30:55 28/04/2022
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By his early 20s, Todd Graves knew exactly what he wanted to do—open a restaurant near Louisiana State University that would make01:22:46 25/04/2022
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When Miguel McKelvey was first featured on How I Built This in 2017, his company was growing at an astounding rate. WeWork was considered00:29:05 21/04/2022
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In a way, Shan-Lyn Ma started attending business school when she was 11 years old and hasn't stopped since. She was hooked on entrepreneurship01:10:44 18/04/2022
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Introducing: How I Built This Lab, a sandbox where we explore all kinds of ideas around entrepreneurship. For our very00:37:23 14/04/2022
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As a boy, Ken Burns was captivated by the power of film and dreamed of being the next Alfred Hitchcock or John Ford. But in college,01:17:41 11/04/2022
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When Andy Dunn was in business school, his housemate Brian Spaly created a new type of men's pants: stylish, tailored trousers that01:07:29 04/04/2022
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After working in the furniture and home goods industry for over a decade, Mitchell Gold took a risky bet and decided to start his01:06:33 28/03/2022
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Matt Mullenweg turned his early passion for blogging into a flourishing business and an unshakeable idea: that users should be able01:17:53 21/03/2022
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With no strategic plan and very little money, Sukhi Singh figured out a way to sell Indian food at scale across the U.S.—but it took01:01:39 14/03/2022
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During his early career, Jason Citron stepped away from two stalled businesses and pivoted—twice—to something far more successful. The01:25:00 07/03/2022
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The very first time Tristan Walker shaved, he woke up the next morning with razor bumps all over his face. "I was like, what is01:02:59 28/02/2022
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Angie and Dan Bastian weren't trying to disrupt an industry or build a massive company, they just wanted to put aside some money for01:03:38 21/02/2022
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As he started to gain a name as a New York fashion designer in the 2010s, Telfar Clemens often joked that he was "constantly emerging."01:17:24 14/02/2022
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As a young programmer in the mid-2000s, Otis Chandler watched as dozens of niche web sites began to take off. When he decided to launch01:09:38 07/02/2022
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Most entrepreneurs expect it will take at least a few years for their businesses to gain traction. But Tim Leatherman waited 7 years01:04:24 31/01/2022
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Vincent Kitirattragarn grew up in a Thai-Chinese-American household, which meant eating congee and lemongrass chicken, while also ordering01:07:36 24/01/2022
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In the 1980s—the early days of cable television—John Hendricks got stuck on an idea he couldn't shake: to create a channel that would01:13:36 17/01/2022
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When she was working corporate jobs in New York City, Sarah LaFleur hated getting dressed in the morning; the choices in her closet01:08:06 10/01/2022
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Andy Puddicombe is not your typical entrepreneur—in his early twenties, he gave away everything he owned to train as a Buddhist monk.01:08:09 03/01/2022
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Kathleen King was 11 years old when she started baking cookies to sell at her family's farm stand on Long Island. After college, she00:56:40 27/12/2021
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What makes a good How I Built This story? Why do our episodes take weeks to produce? How does Guy prepare for an interview? As a bonus00:14:18 23/12/2021
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Ronnen Harary built a 4 billion dollar toy company without relying on market research or focus groups. Instead, he believed wholeheartedly01:06:26 20/12/2021
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In 2010, rocket scientists Robbie Schingler and Will Marshall set an ambitious goal for themselves: to launch an aerospace mission with01:00:28 13/12/2021
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As college students in the late 1980s, Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan launched two projects that came to define their trajectories01:17:30 06/12/2021
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Seth Tibbott may be the only founder in the world who grew his business while living in a barn, a teepee, and a treehouse. His off-the-grid00:48:30 29/11/2021
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As a mother of three, Kat Nouri was dismayed at the amount of single-use plastic she was using to pack her kids' school lunches. She01:08:06 22/11/2021
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Brian Armstrong wanted to be a tech entrepreneur since he was in high school, but his first serious venture—a tutoring website—never01:23:14 15/11/2021
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In 2009, Berkeley seniors Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez started to geek out over something they'd heard in a lecture: you can grow01:19:28 08/11/2021
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Before mp3 players came along in the mid 1990's, listening to audiobooks was a pain. The number of titles was tiny, narration was dull,01:15:33 01/11/2021
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For Christina Tosi, baking wasn't just a delicious childhood hobby—it was a daily creative outlet and a way to blow off steam. After01:05:19 25/10/2021
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As an avid athlete and college basketball player, Missy Park was lucky to grow up during the early era of Title IX, the 1972 law that01:23:20 18/10/2021
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In the field of bio-tech, it can take 10 years and millions of dollars to see if an experimental idea might turn into a life-saving01:06:25 11/10/2021
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While traveling abroad with her husband in 2016, Fawn Weaver became fixated on a New York Times article telling the little-known story01:16:08 04/10/2021
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Paul English is a perpetual founder. Since high school, he's started 3 philanthropies and 8 companies—ranging from e-commerce, to gaming,01:12:13 27/09/2021
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As Texas A&M students in the mid 2000's, Cory Cotton, Tyler Toney and their housemates spent countless hours playing hockey in the01:28:52 20/09/2021
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After more than 20 years working in the shoe business, Wayne Edy decided to strike out on his own, risking most of his savings to launch00:58:40 13/09/2021
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After falling in love with the first Apple Mac computer in 1984, Lynda Weinman found a new career: using the new technology to teach01:14:24 06/09/2021
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In the late 1980s, a New Zealand engineer named Keith Alexander wanted to buy a trampoline for his kids. After his wife said they were00:55:54 30/08/2021
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We have our final main stage event from the 2021 How I Built This Virtual Summit, and it's Guy's conversation with Rashad Robinson,00:25:59 26/08/2021
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In the 1970s, Roxanne Quimby was trying to live a simpler life – one that rejected the pursuit of material comforts. She moved to Maine,00:50:20 23/08/2021
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We have another episode from the 2021 How I Built This Virtual Summit, and it's Guy's interview with organizational psychology professor00:50:12 19/08/2021
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In 2010, Logic the rapper—born as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II—released his first official mixtape titled "Young, Broke & Infamous." At01:10:07 16/08/2021
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We have another episode from the 2021 How I Built This Virtual Summit, and it's Guy's interview with professor, author, and host of00:32:24 12/08/2021
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In the 1990's, Stacy Madison and her boyfriend Mark Andrus were selling pita sandwiches from a converted hot dog cart in Boston. They00:57:22 09/08/2021
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We have another episode from the 2021 How I Built This Virtual Summit, and it's Guy's interview with internet content guru Gary Vaynerchuk.00:36:23 05/08/2021
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Growing up in New Jersey in the 1980's and 90's, Gary Vaynerchuk honed his business skills trading baseball cards and selling wine at01:10:15 02/08/2021
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Robert Reffkin had a hard time fitting in when he was growing up: raised by a single mom in Berkeley California, he was both bi-racial01:18:04 26/07/2021
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Our second episode from the 2021 How I Built This Virtual Summit is from our innovation panel with Payal Kadakia of ClassPass, Tristan00:42:17 22/07/2021
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Bobbi Brown started out as a makeup artist in New York City, but hated the gaudy color palette of the 1980s. She eventually shook up00:45:41 19/07/2021
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In the late 1990s, Ben Chestnut was a struggling young designer interning at an appliance company, when somebody suggested that he try01:22:09 12/07/2021
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When they were in their 20s, Reem Hassani and her brother Ahmed Rahim were not the kind of people you'd expect to launch a multi-million01:09:38 05/07/2021
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In the early 2000's, Philip Krim launched an e-commerce business out of his college dorm, selling everything from window blinds to eczema01:20:44 28/06/2021
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Our first episode from the 2021 How I Built This Virtual Summit is from our leadership panel with Cynt Marshall, CEO of the00:34:45 24/06/2021
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By her early thirties, Ava DuVernay was already a successful entrepreneur, having founded her own film publicity agency in Los Angeles.01:28:37 21/06/2021
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In the early 90s, Rich Barton arrived to work at Microsoft just as the world wide web was taking off. He wound up pitching Bill Gates01:03:04 14/06/2021
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Carla Bartolucci grew up in an Italian-American household, eating fresh gnocchi and ravioli made by her mother, and lobster caught by01:17:08 07/06/2021
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In the mid-90s, David Neeleman wanted to launch a new airline. He had already co-created a regional airline out of Salt Lake City that01:05:02 31/05/2021
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As a part of the 2021 How I Built This Summit (At Home) we have selected 10 Fellows, and we'd like to introduce you to all of them.00:24:16 25/05/2021
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Some of the world's biggest industries sell products that we all need...but don't want to think about. That's what drew Jennifer Fitzgerald01:18:22 24/05/2021
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As a part of the 2021 How I Built This Summit (At Home) we have selected 10 Fellows, and we'd like to introduce you to each of them.00:24:44 20/05/2021
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As a part of the 2021 How I Built This Summit (At Home) we have selected 10 Fellows, and we'd like to introduce you to each of them.00:24:19 18/05/2021
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Around 2003, after forays into banking, baseball cards, and—believe it or not—bobsledding, Marc Lore landed on an idea for an e-commerce01:14:13 17/05/2021
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As a part of the 2021 How I Built This Summit (At Home) we have selected 10 Fellows, and we'd like to introduce you to them over the00:23:10 13/05/2021
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As a part of the 2021 How I Built This Summit (At Home) we have selected 10 Fellows, and we'd like to introduce you to them over the00:28:54 11/05/2021
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In the pre-Internet 1970's, Sandy Lerner was part of a loosely-knit group of programmers that was trying to get computers to talk to00:55:11 10/05/2021
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After selling both of their social app companies and rethinking their day jobs, Paul Davison and Rohan Seth knew they should not get00:55:29 06/05/2021
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Daniel Humm dropped out of school at 14 to become a competitive cyclist, and supported himself by cutting vegetables and making soup01:10:26 03/05/2021
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Jay Shetty was living the life of a rebellious teen in London when a friend talked him into attending a talk by a Hindu monk. It was01:06:35 29/04/2021
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While working at a farmers market in Chicago, Jennifer Martin had a Jack-in-the-Beanstalk moment—a chance encounter with some tiny kernels,01:39:22 26/04/2021
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Bayard Winthrop is the CEO and founder of American Giant, known for its American-made hoodies, t-shirts and jeans. When the pandemic00:30:17 22/04/2021
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Before Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice met, they shared a common belief: New York City gyms didn't have the kind of exercise classes00:51:23 19/04/2021
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Lindsay Peoples Wagner got her first taste of the fashion industry interning at Teen Vouge, where she cleaned massive closets00:29:21 15/04/2021
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Before Robinhood became one of the most loved and most hated stock trading platforms in the U.S., it was just another tech startup,01:21:49 12/04/2021
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In the early 2000s, the online music community was defined by MySpace, illegally downloaded music, and poorly made band websites. Then00:31:09 08/04/2021
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In the early 1990s, as Amanda Hesser's college friends were interviewing for their first cubicle jobs, she chose a different path: one01:29:22 05/04/2021
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After giving up diet soda, Kara Goldin started adding fresh fruit to her drinking water to make it more fun. This inspired her to create00:21:19 01/04/2021
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As a product developer, Bob Monahan worked with some iconic brands: the Pump at Reebok, the Taurus and Mustang at Ford. When he moved00:53:12 29/03/2021
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Vivian Ku is a Taiwanese-American restaurateur who owns three different Taiwanese restaurants in Los Angeles. After the pandemic halted00:23:15 25/03/2021
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In 2010, Justin McLeod was in business school, still trying to get over a bad breakup that had happened years before. Determined to01:30:50 22/03/2021
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Lisa Baird stepped in as commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League in March 2020 and just two days into her job the entire00:30:08 18/03/2021
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Miguel and Veronica Garza grew up in Laredo, Texas, in the kind of family that did almost everything together. So when Veronica realized01:18:34 15/03/2021
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With the wedding industry dramatically impacted by the pandemic, co-founder and CEO of Zola, Shan-Lyn Ma decided to pivot. Instead of00:27:33 11/03/2021
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Rick Steves spent the summer after high school backpacking through Europe on two dollars a day—sleeping on the floor, sneaking into01:22:10 08/03/2021
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Six years ago, Morning Brew started out as a fun business newsletter Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief wrote for their classmates out of00:28:58 04/03/2021
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When she was just 19 years old, Melanie Perkins dreamt of transforming the graphic design and publishing industries. But she started00:41:19 01/03/2021
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Music manager and entrepreneur Troy Carter spoke to Guy last June, as the pandemic was worsening and the country was shaken by racial00:24:13 25/02/2021
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Over the course of ten years as a founder, Chieh Huang bet twice on the ubiquity of the smartphone. The first time was in 2010 with01:28:41 22/02/2021
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After retiring from professional soccer, Beverly Leon shifted her focus in a big way. In 2018 she founded Local Civics, an ed-tech start-up00:27:13 18/02/2021
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In 2012, 22-year-old Katlin Smith was growing restless at her consulting job, so she started experimenting with grain-free, paleo-friendly00:59:13 15/02/2021
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Strava is a social fitness platform with more than 76 million users in nearly every country worldwide. Co-founders Michael Horvath and00:31:53 11/02/2021
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In 2001, Mike Cannon-Brookes sent an email to his college classmates in Sydney, asking if anyone was interested in helping him launch01:12:52 08/02/2021
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M. Night Shyamalan spoke with Guy as part of NPR's Storytelling Lounge at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Night is known for writing,00:48:01 04/02/2021
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When Norma Kamali studied fashion illustration in the 1960s, she never expected to become a designer. So when a job as an airline01:30:05 01/02/2021
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Fourth generation cattle rancher Loren Poncia and his wife Lisa transformed Stemple Creek Ranch into one of the few carbon neutral livestock00:25:34 28/01/2021
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With its eco-friendly paper towels, diapers, and cleansers, Seventh Generation was one of the first—and most successful—green household01:33:19 25/01/2021
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After starting her career at Teach For America in 1998, Elisa Villanueva Beard has served as the CEO of the non-profit for the last00:21:55 21/01/2021
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Judi Sheppard Missett wandered into her first dance class when she was 2, and hasn't stopped dancing since. In the late 1960s, she was01:16:46 18/01/2021
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As part of the band Pomplamoose, musician Jack Conte had a sizeable fan base in the late 2000s and was making thousands of dollars a01:25:22 11/01/2021
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In 1992, Steve Ells was a classically trained chef working in a high-end restaurant in San Francisco. But after eating a burrito at00:46:20 04/01/2021
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In the late 1970s Janice Bryant Howroyd moved to Los Angeles and began temping as a secretary. She soon realized there were many other00:45:24 28/12/2020
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Morra Aarons-Mele is the founder of Women Online and hosts The Anxious Achiever podcast. Morra shares how her agency pivoted00:31:29 23/12/2020
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By the time he turned 30, Tim Ferriss had figured out how to succeed at things that many people fail at—from growing a business to dancing01:24:57 21/12/2020
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Reel is a digital savings platform that helps people people make big purchases without racking up credit card debt. CEO and co-founder00:24:15 17/12/2020
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There were so many interesting moments in Guy's conversation with the co-founders of Riot Games that we decided to put them into this00:11:13 15/12/2020
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At USC in the late 1990s, Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck were bonding over video games and noticing that free, player-made modifications01:31:46 14/12/2020
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Emily Powell is the third generation owner and president of Portland, Oregon's iconic independent bookseller, Powell's Books. After00:24:41 10/12/2020
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When he was 8 years old, Joel Clark loaded bags of his mom's whole grain pancake mix into a red wagon to sell door-to-door. By the mid-90s,01:14:44 07/12/2020
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The former CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh has died. He was 46 years old. We are grateful that Tony shared his story with us in 2017 and we00:26:27 30/11/2020
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Dr. Iman Abuzeid is the co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, a digital platform that helps streamline the hiring process for nurses00:28:06 25/11/2020
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While working long hours as a Wall Street analyst, Melissa Butler started making lipstick in her kitchen as a hobby. But it soon turned01:20:38 23/11/2020
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Father Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, one of the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry programs00:25:20 19/11/2020
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Kenneth Cole launched his shoe business out of a forty-foot truck in midtown Manhattan and quickly became known as an up-and-coming01:15:31 16/11/2020
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In 2006, Drew Houston got on a bus from Boston heading to New York. He planned to use the three-hour ride to get some work done, so00:47:51 09/11/2020
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Guy talks with Varshini Prakash, co-founder of Sunrise Movement, a grassroots organization that's fighting to make climate change a00:23:34 05/11/2020
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Growing up in 1960's Chicago, Dave Anderson didn't eat much deep dish. Instead, his dad took the family to the South Side for barbecue,01:15:54 02/11/2020
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Justin Gold is the founder of Justin's, known for its nut butters and chocolate peanut butter cups. He talks about how he started by00:21:42 31/10/2020
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Do Big Things is a Black woman-led, mission-driven digital agency that works with companies like Google, Etsy, and the NAACP, and has00:19:39 29/10/2020
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After Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John made the extraordinary discovery that they were half-sisters, they formed a deep bond and01:10:30 26/10/2020
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Fluenz helps English speakers learn new languages, both online and with in-person immersion programs. With travel restrictions and a00:19:14 22/10/2020
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When we first spoke with Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John, we were so blown away by their story that we decided to turn it into00:50:53 19/10/2020
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In the late 1990s, Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan took on the notion that "green doesn't clean" by setting out to make soap that could clean00:52:31 12/10/2020
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When a Sports Illustrated article exposed internal abuse and harassment in the Dallas Mavericks organization, owner Mark Cuban knew00:23:16 10/10/2020
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Aishetu Dozie had a successful career in finance before she took a leap and launched Bossy, a makeup brand that has exploded in popularity00:21:46 08/10/2020
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Working at a high-end beauty salon in the south of England in the early 1970's, Mark Constantine concocted natural shampoos and conditioners01:25:30 05/10/2020
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January Ventures is an investment firm that is trying to address the unique challenges and biases faced by entrepreneurs often under-represented00:22:44 03/10/2020
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Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman says his leadership team anticipated a "nuclear winter" after the pandemic hit. But as businesses start00:25:44 01/10/2020
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In 2012, Daina Trout, her husband Justin, and her best friend Vanessa Dew were sitting around a kitchen table spit-balling possible00:57:55 28/09/2020
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This year has brought unexpected challenges to Lyft, starting with a 75 percent drop in rideshares at the beginning of the pandemic.00:24:42 26/09/2020
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In 2009, Sal Khan walked away from a high-paying job to start a business that had no way of making money. His idea to launch a non-profit01:22:03 21/09/2020
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Last year, the dating app Bumble launched a video chat feature that was initially slow to take off. But that changed after the pandemic00:20:02 19/09/2020
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Bert and John Jacobs had just come off a $100 million year for their Boston-based apparel company, Life is Good. However, the COVID-1900:28:38 17/09/2020
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After emigrating from Nigeria to the US to attend college, Tope Awotona worked as a door-to-door salesman and eventually set out to01:11:30 14/09/2020
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On this special episode, Stacey Vanek Smith interviews Guy about his brand new book, How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success00:30:10 12/09/2020
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Imane Anys—who goes by the online moniker Pokimane—is the leading female streamer on Twitch, a popular streaming platform for gamers.00:25:55 10/09/2020
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Growing up in rural Northern California, Mike Radenbaugh hated biking to high school—it was a 16 mile slog; hilly and tiring. So he01:10:38 07/09/2020
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KiwiCo delivers science and arts projects to kids on a monthly basis. Sandra Oh Lin founded the company nine years ago, and her team00:19:06 05/09/2020
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COVID-19's impact on the seafood industry hit Luke Holden and Ben Conniff hard; in March they closed their restaurants and laid off00:23:01 03/09/2020
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One night in 1978, for fun, Sandy Chilewich and her friend, Kathy Moskal, tried bleaching their black cotton shoes, and dyeing them00:43:44 31/08/2020
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Despite the economic crisis, Wayfair has seen an 84 percent sales spike, leading them to profitability during the COVID-19 pandemic.00:27:30 29/08/2020
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Rinse is a laundry and dry-cleaning app started by college friends Ajay Prakash and James Joun in 2013. Since March, Rinse's dry cleaning00:21:15 27/08/2020
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After selling their first small business and shuttering their second, former college roommates Niraj Shah and Steve Conine thought about00:41:03 24/08/2020
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In 2007, three friends set out to address a common frustration: the long waits and scheduling hassles of booking a doctor's appointment.01:05:04 17/08/2020
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Samantha Bee, the host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, has been filming her show from her backyard in upstate New York since00:19:39 15/08/2020
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In the early stages of the lockdown, Airbnb was in a freefall: it lost 80 percent of its business and laid off a quarter of its staff.00:23:13 13/08/2020
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In 2010, a tragic personal event changed the trajectory of Nancy Twine's life. Suddenly, her promising job on the trading floor at Goldman01:10:48 10/08/2020
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Guy speaks with Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of DreamBox, an online math learning program for K-8 students. The platform has added two00:20:12 08/08/2020
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Within weeks after the pandemic lockdown, the fitness program Zumba rapidly shifted gears and launched its own online workout platform.00:20:17 06/08/2020
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So—no joke: two guys really do walk into a bar. While sharing a few drinks on a winter night in New York City, best friends Michael01:10:47 03/08/2020
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Hello Sunshine—a production company founded by Reese Witherspoon—has created TV shows Little Fires Everywhere, The Morning Show,00:16:49 01/08/2020
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As COVID-19 continues to affect the global economy, college graduates are entering a job market reminiscent of the 2008 financial crisis.00:18:34 30/07/2020
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In the late 1990s, while working in high-end fashion in NYC, Lindsey Boyd came to despise the weekly ritual of dry-cleaning; not only01:05:49 27/07/2020
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With live events canceled and sound stages shuttered, the entertainment industry has to look for new ways to create content while cutting00:21:26 25/07/2020
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When Songe LaRon founded Squire in 2016, his mission was to use modern technology to help run barbershops, which are using his app in00:25:14 23/07/2020
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When Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti met at a grunge concert in Seattle in the 1980s, they were an unlikely pair. But they shared a01:04:53 20/07/2020
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While upending many businesses, the pandemic has benefited fitness brands like Peloton, which saw a surge in demand in mid-March. Peloton00:19:39 18/07/2020
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Founder Julia Hartz is reckoning with COVID-19's impact on the live events industry, which uses her company, Eventbrite, to sell tickets00:24:24 16/07/2020
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In 2008, Vicky Tsai walked away from a startup job and set out to rediscover herself on a trip to Japan. In Kyoto, she had an unforgettable01:18:34 13/07/2020
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Morgan DeBaun founded Blavity as a media platform for Black millennials to convene and connect online. Today, amidst an economic crisis00:24:05 11/07/2020
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In 2018, Sharon Chuter left her job at a legacy beauty brand to start UOMA Beauty, a cosmetics company that caters to a wide variety00:22:24 09/07/2020
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At age 40, Bobby Trussell's promising career in horse racing hit a dead end. With bills to pay and a family to support, he stumbled00:58:09 06/07/2020
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In the late 2000s, Payal Kadakia was working a corporate job and running an Indian dance company on the side. When a search for a ballet01:16:48 29/06/2020
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This week, the online design platform Canva closed a new round of funding, bringing the company's valuation to $6 billion. Founder Melanie00:27:23 27/06/2020
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Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick talks to Guy about how the protests for racial justice have resonated with him personally,00:19:49 25/06/2020
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Jamie Siminoff spent much of his twenties and thirties as a serial entrepreneur, launching three tech businesses you've probably never01:29:24 22/06/2020
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While 70 percent of Barre3's locations remain closed, founder Sadie Lincoln is noticing a surge in subscriptions for their online workout00:25:32 20/06/2020
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Cathy Hughes is the founder of Urban One, the largest African American-owned broadcast network with 54 radio stations around the United00:25:00 18/06/2020
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Back in 2001, as part of an initiative to revitalize Madison Square Park, Danny Meyer set up a simple hot dog cart. At that time, he00:55:40 15/06/2020
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Y-Vonne Hutchinson is the founder of ReadySet, a consulting firm that helps companies make authentic commitments to diversity and inclusion.00:23:08 13/06/2020
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Actor and comedian Kevin Hart speaks to Guy about the Black Lives Matter protests and offers advice to future activists, entertainers00:18:29 11/06/2020
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In 2005, the trajectory of Holly Thaggard's life completely changed when a good friend of hers was diagnosed with skin cancer. Holly01:11:40 08/06/2020
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Troy Carter, the founder of Q&A and Atom Factory, speaks to Guy about the painful events of the past few months—and especially the00:23:57 06/06/2020
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As Rent the Runway faces the economic challenges of the pandemic, co-founder Jenn Hyman is focused on recovery and empowering women's00:23:24 04/06/2020
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Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman were two rock-and-roll fans who met at exactly the right time and place: Seattle in the early 1980s,01:27:15 01/06/2020
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Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, talks with Guy about why she believes that investing time into fashion and beauty is still00:31:32 30/05/2020
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Kyle Connaughton's restaurant has been impacted by wildfires, floods, and now, the COVID-19 pandemic. Kyle spoke with Guy about keeping00:25:25 28/05/2020
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In 2000, Luis von Ahn was starting his PhD in computer science when he attended a talk and happened to learn about one of Yahoo's biggest01:04:23 25/05/2020
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When Sarah LaFleur started M.M.LaFleur, she wanted to help women dress efficiently and comfortably for the office. Now that most of00:17:38 23/05/2020
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When Tony Xu started DoorDash in 2013, he wanted to help local restaurants stay afloat by introducing them to online delivery. Today,00:31:45 21/05/2020
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As a girl in 1970s London, Jo Malone learned how to make face creams by going to work with her mom at a private skin care clinic. By01:22:01 18/05/2020
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When Tobias Lütke started Shopify, he wanted to empower merchants to start small and build resilience. Tobi spoke with Guy about the00:29:53 16/05/2020
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Samin Nosrat, the author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, talks with Guy about unintentionally writing the ultimate quarantine cookbook,00:26:36 14/05/2020
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When he was nearly 60, Pat Brown left a dream job to pursue an ambitious mission: to create delicious meat from plants. As a biochemist,01:03:29 11/05/2020
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Slack's co-founder Stewart Butterfield wonders what the future of work will look like for his 12 million customers. Springfree Trampoline's00:21:41 09/05/2020
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Since March, only five of Milk Bar's 18 locations have been up and running, but founder Christina Tosi tells Guy she is determined to00:29:38 07/05/2020
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By his mid-30's, Davis Smith had co-founded two businesses. The first ended well, but the second was such a disappointment that he wondered01:05:59 04/05/2020
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When chef José Andrés isn't running Michelin-starred restaurants, he's feeding the masses through World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit00:28:17 30/04/2020
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In 2006, James Park had what he describes as a "lightning bolt" moment when he first used a Nintendo Wii. Fascinated by its motion-tracking01:04:42 27/04/2020
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Each week, Guy is hosting online conversations with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating these turbulent times. Today's00:19:27 23/04/2020
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On the first day of their Vegas vacation in 2012, Rich and Vicki Fulop sat down on their hotel bed and immediately had the same thought:01:09:16 20/04/2020
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Each week, Guy will be hosting brief online conversations with founders and members of the How I Built This community about00:20:43 16/04/2020
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Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman met at Georgetown University in 2003 and quickly bonded over their frustration at the lack of healthy01:09:49 13/04/2020
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Each week, Guy will be hosting brief online conversations with founders and members of the How I Built This community about00:13:33 09/04/2020
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In 2009, Sarah Kauss had a well-paying job in real estate development, but she was itching to do something more. On a hike in Tucson01:06:43 06/04/2020
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Each week, Guy will be hosting brief online conversations with founders and members of the How I Built This community about00:14:54 02/04/2020
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Ken Grossman was experimenting with beer before he was old enough to buy it. As a high school student in the late 1960s, he bought his01:06:44 30/03/2020
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In the mid-1970s two childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield decided to open an ice cream shop in Burlington, Vermont. Their00:56:29 23/03/2020
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When Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna launched Birchbox from business school in 2010, they set out to disrupt the beauty industry by01:07:00 16/03/2020
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Our ninth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Stacy Madison, co-founder of Stacy's Pita Chips. In this live00:12:46 12/03/2020
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Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded and sold their first company before they turned 20. They created software to help eBay users00:42:00 09/03/2020
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When Casey Neistat was a teenager, the odds were against him; he had dropped out of high school, was washing dishes to pay rent, and01:32:22 02/03/2020
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Our eighth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Jeni Britton Bauer, the founder of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. In00:16:21 27/02/2020
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After noticing more and more people sign up for yoga in the late 1990s, Chip Wilson bet everything on an athletic apparel company aimed00:54:12 24/02/2020
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In the early 2000s, Julia Hartz was helping develop TV shows for MTV and FX Networks, and seemed headed for a promising career in television.01:04:08 17/02/2020
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Our seventh episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue Airways. In this00:17:01 13/02/2020
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In the early 1980s, Ron Shaich bought a small, struggling Boston bakery chain called Au Bon Pain, and built it out to 250 locations00:42:09 10/02/2020
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When she was working corporate jobs in New York City, Sarah LaFleur hated getting dressed in the morning; the choices in her closet01:14:43 03/02/2020
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Our sixth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr and Slack. Both00:15:55 30/01/2020
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During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with00:42:31 27/01/2020
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While she was a student at business school, Shazi Visram ran into an old friend-- a new mother of twins. The friend confided she felt01:13:30 20/01/2020
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Bill Creelman graduated from college in 1996 with a business plan — to sell smoked fish from Nantucket. But over time, that idea morphed01:04:26 13/01/2020
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Our fifth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore, founder of Bliss, FitFlop,00:15:09 09/01/2020
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Before it became fashionable to start a tech company in your dorm room, Michael Dell did exactly that. In 1983, he began selling upgrade00:46:54 06/01/2020
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For many of us, chicken salad is just another sandwich filling, but Stacy Brown turned it into a $75 million business. In 2007, she00:57:41 30/12/2019
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Our fourth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Tariq Farid, founder of Edible Arrangements. In a live conversation00:16:02 26/12/2019
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Steve Madden fell in love with the shoe business in the 1970's, when he sold platform shoes at a neighborhood store in Long Island,00:53:12 23/12/2019
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Our third live episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, co-founders of Instagram.00:22:04 19/12/2019
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Kathleen King was 11 years old when she started baking cookies to sell at her family's farm stand on Long Island. After college, she00:59:43 16/12/2019
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Our second episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features founder and investor Troy Carter, who re-started his career00:16:41 12/12/2019
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In 2000, Mariam Naficy sold her first company, an online cosmetics store called Eve.com, for $110 million. Several years later, she00:49:56 09/12/2019
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Our first episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx. In front of a live audience,00:19:53 05/12/2019
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In the 1980s and 90s, Curt Richardson started making simple plastic boxes in his garage in Fort Collins, Colorado. They were originally01:02:29 02/12/2019
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In 2013, Tyler Haney was a 24-year-old graduate of the Parsons School of Design in New York. One day on a jog, she realized that her01:05:02 25/11/2019
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The founder of Burton Snowboards, Jake Burton Carpenter, has died. He was 65 years old. We are grateful that Jake shared his story with00:36:56 21/11/2019
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In 1962, Gordon Segal—with his wife Carole—opened a scrappy Chicago shop called Crate & Barrel. That store turned into a housewares00:30:05 18/11/2019
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At the height of the first dot-com boom, Selina Tobaccowala and college friend Al Lieb were determined to start a tech company. After01:03:20 11/11/2019
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Luke Holden grew up in Maine, working on lobster boats and in his father's lobster processing plant. But his parents pushed him to find00:50:46 07/11/2019
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Daymond John grew up during the 1980s in the heart of hip hop culture: Hollis, Queens. In his early 20s, he was working at Red Lobster00:53:12 04/11/2019
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In 2000, Lara Merriken was 32, recently divorced, and without a job when she decided to make energy bars by mixing cherries, dates,00:54:15 28/10/2019
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Alex Blumberg made his early career by helping build two of the most successful shows in radio and podcasting: Planet Money and This01:20:03 21/10/2019
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For Christina Tosi, baking wasn't just a delicious childhood hobby – it was a daily creative outlet and a way to blow off steam. After01:04:27 14/10/2019
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When Carley Roney and David Liu got married, they had a seat-of-the-pants celebration on a sweltering Washington rooftop. They never00:55:06 07/10/2019
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The very first time Tristan Walker shaved, he woke up the next morning with razor bumps all over his face. "I was like, what is01:01:14 30/09/2019
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Andy Puddicombe is not your typical entrepreneur – in his early twenties, he gave away everything he owned to train as a Buddhist monk.01:12:18 23/09/2019
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In 2010, Katrina Lake recruited 20 friends for an experiment: she wanted to see if she could choose clothes for them that accurately00:52:25 16/09/2019
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In the late 1980s, Curt Jones was working in a Kentucky lab, using liquid nitrogen to flash-freeze animal feed. He wondered if he could01:06:39 09/09/2019
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In the late 80s, brothers Bert and John Jacobs were living as nomads, traveling from college to college selling t-shirts out of their01:01:44 02/09/2019
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Cotton muslin baby blankets are commonplace in Australia, where Raegan Moya-Jones grew up. But when she started a new life and family00:50:32 26/08/2019
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In 1983, two hippie farmers decided to sell homemade organic yogurt to help raise money for their educational farm in New Hampshire.00:58:47 19/08/2019
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After high school, Marcia Kilgore moved to New York City with $300 in her pocket and no real plan. One step at a time, she became a00:54:47 12/08/2019
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In 2004, German programmer Tobias Lütke was living in Ottawa with his girlfriend. An avid snowboarder, he wanted to launch an online01:04:49 05/08/2019
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Angie and Dan Bastian weren't trying to disrupt an industry or build a massive company – they just wanted to put aside some money for01:04:15 29/07/2019
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In 1979, James Dyson had an idea for a new vacuum cleaner — one that didn't use bags. It took him five years to perfect the design,00:43:57 22/07/2019
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In the early 1990s, Susan Griffin-Black was working for Esprit in San Francisco. On a business trip to London, she walked into a Covent00:59:58 15/07/2019
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In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve public education in the US. For her senior thesis, she proposed00:43:45 08/07/2019
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Dave Dahl's entrepreneurial journey began in prison. In 1987, he was addicted to drugs and incarcerated for home burglary. For 15 years01:07:05 01/07/2019
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In 2004, two former Paypal engineers, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russ Simmons, were spit-balling new internet ideas. Out of their brainstorm00:59:52 24/06/2019
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Twenty-five years ago, after Mei Xu emigrated from China to the U.S., she loved going to Bloomingdale's to gaze at their housewares.00:42:27 17/06/2019
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Growing up, Tim Brown discovered he was very good at two things: design and soccer. While playing professional soccer in New Zealand,01:09:22 10/06/2019
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Seth Tibbott may be the only founder in the world who grew his business while living in a barn, a teepee, and a treehouse. His off-the-grid00:46:30 03/06/2019
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In the 1990's, Stacy Madison and her boyfriend Mark Andrus were selling pita sandwiches from a converted hot dog cart in Boston. They01:03:11 27/05/2019
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Computer scientist Tony Hsieh made millions off the dot-com boom. But he didn't make his mark until he built Zappos — a customer service00:32:41 20/05/2019
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Chet Pipkin was the kind of kid who loved to take things apart and put them back together. As a young man in the early 1980s, he started00:52:33 13/05/2019
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Susan Tynan's experience in the ephemeral e-market of LivingSocial made her want to start a business that she could touch and feel.00:58:02 06/05/2019
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John Foley started climbing the rungs of the corporate ladder at a young age, first as a fast food server and eventually as an e-commerce00:53:58 29/04/2019
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At age 22, Whitney Wolfe helped launch Tinder, one of the world's most popular dating apps. But a few years later, she left Tinder and00:41:50 22/04/2019
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In 1970, George Zimmer was a college graduate with no real job prospects and little direction. That's when his father, an executive01:03:02 15/04/2019
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In the 1960s, Alice Waters studied abroad in France – and discovered a culinary world far from the processed food popular in America.00:59:37 08/04/2019
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In the late 1980s, a New Zealand engineer named Keith Alexander wanted to buy a trampoline for his kids. After his wife said trampolines01:00:35 01/04/2019
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In 1981, engineer Rod Canion left Texas Instruments and co-founded Compaq, which created the first IBM-compatible personal computer.00:39:21 25/03/2019
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In early 2015, Jen Rubio was racing through an airport to catch a flight when her suitcase broke, leaving a trail of clothing behind01:07:17 18/03/2019
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In 2010, Logic the rapper, born as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, released his first official mixtape titled "Young, Broke & Infamous."01:11:30 11/03/2019
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Like many classic technology stories, Squarespace started in a college dorm room. In 2003, 21-year-old Anthony Casalena created a website-building00:53:23 04/03/2019
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In 1983, Eileen Fisher signed up for a fashion trade show with no experience, no garments, no patterns or sketches – nothing but a few00:45:05 25/02/2019
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In the 1970s, Roxanne Quimby was trying to live a simpler life – one that rejected the pursuit of material comforts. She moved to Maine,00:58:28 18/02/2019
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Blake Mycoskie started and sold four businesses before age 30. But only in Argentina did he discover the idea he'd want to pursue long00:53:35 11/02/2019
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In the mid-90s, David Neeleman wanted to launch a new airline. He had already co-created a regional airline out of Salt Lake City that01:08:12 04/02/2019
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When she was just 19 years old, Melanie Perkins dreamt of transforming the graphic design and publishing industries. But she started00:47:22 28/01/2019
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When Andy Dunn was in business school, his housemate Brian Spaly created a new type of men's pants: stylish, tailored trousers that01:09:57 21/01/2019
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Jerry Murrell's mother used to tell him, you can always make money if you know how to make a good burger. In 1986 — after failing at00:37:07 14/01/2019
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Before Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice met, they shared a common belief: New York City gyms didn't have the kind of exercise classes00:56:03 07/01/2019
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The co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, has died. He was 87. We are grateful Herb shared his story with00:31:27 04/01/2019
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In the early 2000s, Perry Chen was trying to put on a concert in New Orleans when he thought, what if fans could fund this in advance?00:40:56 31/12/2018
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Years after his father created a hit singing group of anthropomorphic rodents called The Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. made it his00:58:29 24/12/2018
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It's our final episode in our series from this year's How I Built This Summit! Today, we're featuring Lisa Price of the beauty00:19:34 20/12/2018
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At the end of 2010, Michael Dubin was working in marketing when he met a guy named Mark Levine at a holiday party. Mark was looking00:49:52 17/12/2018
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Today we have another live episode from the How I Built This Summit, featuring Katrina Lake of Stitch Fix. Katrina sat down00:15:31 13/12/2018
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In 1977, 23-year-old Jake Carpenter set out to design a better version of the Snurfer, a stand-up sled he loved to ride as a teenager.00:46:00 10/12/2018
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Next in our series of episodes from the How I Built This Summit: Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb. Joe sat down with Guy Raz00:16:44 06/12/2018
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In the late 1970s Janice Bryant Howroyd moved to Los Angeles and began temping as a secretary. She soon realized there were many other00:51:25 03/12/2018
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Next up in our series of episodes from the How I Built This Summit: John Zimmer, co-founder of Lyft. John sat down with Guy00:18:23 29/11/2018
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In 2010, while working as a fashion assistant at Vogue, Emily Weiss started a beauty blog called Into The Gloss. She00:51:15 26/11/2018
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This episode from the How I Built This Summit features Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, co-founders of Method cleaning products. Adam00:16:34 22/11/2018
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In 1978, college drop-out John Mackey scraped together $45,000 to open his first health food store, "Safer Way." A few years later he00:45:02 19/11/2018
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Our first episode from the How I Built This Summit features Jenn Hyman, co-founder of Rent The Runway, a designer clothing00:15:43 15/11/2018
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In 2013, Tony Xu was brainstorming ideas for a business school project when he identified a problem he wanted to solve: food delivery.00:50:20 12/11/2018
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Sadie Lincoln and her husband, Chris, had what seemed like the perfect life – well-paying jobs, a house in the Bay Area, two kids. But00:47:39 05/11/2018
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When Jon Stein realized he couldn't stand the sight of blood, he gave up the idea of becoming a doctor. Instead, he went into finance,00:53:21 29/10/2018
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At age 40, Bobby Trussell's promising career in horse racing hit a dead end. With bills to pay and a family to support, he stumbled01:02:02 22/10/2018
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Jenn Hyman got the idea for Rent the Runway in 2008, after she watched her sister overspend on a new dress rather than wear an old one00:54:25 15/10/2018
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In the late 1990s, Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan took on the notion that "green doesn't clean" by setting out to make soap that could clean00:55:52 08/10/2018
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In the pre-Internet 1970's, Sandy Lerner was part of a loosely-knit group of programmers that was trying to get computers to talk to01:00:17 01/10/2018
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As a refugee growing up in Tel Aviv, Haim Saban remembers not having enough money to eat. As an adult, he hustled his way into the entertainment00:42:31 24/09/2018
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Bobbi Brown started out as a makeup artist in New York City, but hated the gaudy color palette of the 1980s. She eventually shook up00:51:39 17/09/2018
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In 1991 newlyweds Kim Jordan and Jeff Lebesch took out a second mortgage on their home in Fort Collins, Colorado to start a craft brewery00:44:27 10/09/2018
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In 2007, architect Miguel McKelvey convinced his friend Adam Neumann to share an office space in Brooklyn. That was the beginning of00:51:41 03/09/2018
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In 1997, Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick was deployed in Southeast Asia, where he was stationed in a remote warehouse for weeks with no way00:43:17 27/08/2018
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In 1995, Angie Hicks spent months going door-to-door in Columbus, Ohio, trying to get people to sign up for a new home services referral00:32:20 20/08/2018
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In 2013, Peter Rahal was obsessed with CrossFit, but noticed it didn't sell any snacks to align with its pro-paleo philosophy. So instead00:47:48 13/08/2018
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Lisa Price worked in television but had a passion for beauty products. At her mother's suggestion, she began selling her homemade moisturizer00:41:53 06/08/2018
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In the early 2000s, Stewart Butterfield tried to build a weird, massively multiplayer online game, but the venture failed. Instead,01:03:05 30/07/2018
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A decade ago, full-time mom Alli Webb noticed a gap in the beauty market: there was no place that just focused on blow-drying hair.00:33:36 23/07/2018
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Steve Madden fell in love with the shoe business in the 1970's, when he sold platform shoes at a neighborhood store in Long Island,00:51:14 16/07/2018
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In 1972, Maureen and Tony Wheeler bought a beat-up car and drove from London "as far east as we could go." They wound up in Australia,00:37:22 09/07/2018
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For many of us, chicken salad is just another sandwich filling, but Stacy Brown turned it into a $75 million business. In 2007, she00:55:59 02/07/2018
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In 2006, John Zimmer was a college student and ride-hailing wasn't yet "a thing." But a class on green cities got him thinking about00:40:39 25/06/2018
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After noticing more and more people sign up for yoga in the late 1990s, Chip Wilson bet everything on an athletic apparel company aimed00:52:07 18/06/2018
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In 1997, after going for a long run, Seth Goldman was frustrated with the sugar-filled drinks at the corner market. So he brewed up00:29:09 11/06/2018
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We are incredibly saddened by the loss of the brilliant designer and entrepreneur Kate Spade. We are grateful she and her husband Andy00:36:19 05/06/2018
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In 2000, Mariam Naficy sold her first company, an online cosmetics store called Eve.com, for $110 million. Several years later, she00:49:37 04/06/2018
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As a kid, Troy Carter dreamed of being a rapper, but soon discovered he was a better manager than a musician. He took Lady Gaga from00:47:50 28/05/2018
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In the 1960s, Bob Moore read a book about an old grain mill and was inspired to start his own. Using giant quartz stones from the 19th00:45:01 21/05/2018
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Barbara Corcoran grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Jersey – with nine brothers and sisters. But she used her charisma00:51:03 14/05/2018
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Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded and sold their first company before they turned 20. They created software to help eBay users00:41:40 07/05/2018
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In the early 1980s, Ron Shaich bought a small, struggling Boston bakery chain called Au Bon Pain, and built it out to 250 locations00:41:58 30/04/2018
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Jane Wurwand moved to Los Angeles with a suitcase and a beauty school diploma. She started what would become Dermalogica, an international00:40:10 23/04/2018
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After selling their first small business and shuttering their second, former college roommates Niraj Shah and Steve Conine thought about00:46:22 16/04/2018
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Daymond John grew up during the 1980s in the heart of hip hop culture: Hollis, Queens. In his early 20s, he was working at Red Lobster00:51:52 09/04/2018
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In 2010, Katrina Lake recruited 20 friends for an experiment: she wanted to see if she could choose clothes for them that accurately00:50:48 02/04/2018
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Before he turned 40, Nolan Bushnell founded two brands that permanently shaped the way Americans amuse themselves: the iconic video00:49:16 26/03/2018
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In 2000, Lara Merriken was 32, recently divorced, and without a job when she decided to make energy bars by mixing cherries, dates,00:53:44 19/03/2018
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When Carley Roney and David Liu got married, they had a seat-of-the-pants celebration on a sweltering Washington rooftop. They never00:54:51 12/03/2018
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Brian Scudamore didn't dream of a life hauling away other people's trash. But when he needed to pay for college, he bought a $700 pickup00:40:15 05/03/2018
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Even as a kid, Jeni Britton Bauer knew she was going to start a business one day. But she had no idea that her love for perfume would00:46:59 28/02/2018
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During the dot com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with00:41:48 26/02/2018
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In 2008, it was nearly impossible to buy a fashionable, affordable pair of glasses online. That simple frustration inspired the idea00:31:27 19/02/2018
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In 1979, James Dyson had an idea for a new vacuum cleaner — one that didn't use bags. It took him five years to perfect the design,00:42:57 12/02/2018
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Melissa and Doug Bernstein's first success was a wooden 'fuzzy puzzle' of farm animals. Today, Melissa & Doug makes over 2,000 kinds00:39:39 05/02/2018
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Before it became fashionable to start a tech company in your dorm room, Michael Dell did exactly that. In 1983, he began selling upgrade00:48:08 29/01/2018
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After high school, Marcia Kilgore moved to New York City with $300 in her pocket and no real plan. One step at a time, she became a00:52:34 22/01/2018
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In the early 1990s, Reid Hoffman had a vision for the future of the Internet: people would connect through social networks using their00:41:39 15/01/2018
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We're hard at work planning our next live show, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Kate Spade. A 1991 conversation at00:39:09 08/01/2018
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We're taking a break for the holidays, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Clif Bar. Gary Erickson asked his mom, "Can00:30:55 01/01/2018
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In 1978, Arthur Blank and his business partner Bernie Marcus were running a successful chain of hardware stores called Handy Dan – but00:32:19 28/12/2017
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We're taking a break for the holidays, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Patagonia. In 1973, Yvon Chouinard started00:26:05 25/12/2017
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When Alexa von Tobel was just 14, her father passed away unexpectedly, leaving her mother to manage the family's finances. The tragedy00:39:57 18/12/2017
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In 1979, Robert Johnson was a lobbyist for the burgeoning cable industry. That's when he got an idea for a channel called Black Entertainment00:40:59 14/12/2017
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In 1970, Tom Chappell took out a $5000 loan to launch a natural products company called Tom's of Maine. Working out of a warehouse in00:36:40 11/12/2017
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We're hard at work planning our upcoming live show, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Zumba. Zumba began as a mistake:00:40:31 04/12/2017
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Susan Tynan's experience in the ephemeral e-market of LivingSocial made her want to start a business that she could touch and feel.00:57:36 27/11/2017
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In the mid-1970s two childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield decided to open an ice cream shop in Burlington, Vermont. Their00:56:58 20/11/2017
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We're hard at work planning our upcoming live shows, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Instagram. Kevin Systrom and00:31:42 13/11/2017
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In 1983, Eileen Fisher signed up for a fashion trade show with no experience, no garments, no patterns or sketches – nothing but a few00:46:36 06/11/2017
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In 1992, Steve Ells was a classically trained chef working in a high-end restaurant in San Francisco. But after eating a burrito at00:50:46 30/10/2017
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In 1977, 23-year-old Jake Carpenter set out to design a better version of the Snurfer, a stand-up sled he loved to ride as a teenager.00:45:00 23/10/2017
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At age 22, Whitney Wolfe helped launch Tinder, one of the world's most popular dating apps. But a few years later, she left Tinder and00:41:14 16/10/2017
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In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve American public schools. For her senior thesis, she proposed00:43:33 09/10/2017
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In 1983, two hippie farmers decided to sell homemade organic yogurt to help raise money for their educational farm in New Hampshire.00:59:15 02/10/2017
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During his first visit to Seattle in 1981, Howard Schultz walked into a little coffee bean shop called Starbucks and fell in love with00:48:35 28/09/2017
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We're hard at work planning more live shows, so we bring you one of our favorites from last year: Southwest Airlines. In 1968, competitors00:35:48 25/09/2017
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Years after his father created a hit singing group of anthropomorphic rodents called The Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. made it his00:56:44 18/09/2017
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Sadie Lincoln and her husband, Chris, had what seemed like the perfect life – well-paying jobs, a house in the Bay Area, two kids. But00:48:00 11/09/2017
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We're hard at work planning our upcoming live show, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: VICE. Suroosh Alvi was a recovering00:38:56 04/09/2017
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With $12,000 and a mascot named Snoo, two former college roommates designed a web site they hoped would become "the front page of the00:52:20 31/08/2017
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We're hard at work planning our upcoming live show, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Airbnb. A chance encounter with00:42:59 28/08/2017
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When Tariq Farid was 12, he emigrated from Pakistan to the U.S. – and quickly found a job at a local flower shop. Eventually he opened00:47:39 21/08/2017
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We're hard at work planning our upcoming live show, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Radio One. As a kid, Cathy Hughes00:36:31 14/08/2017
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Jenn Hyman got the idea for Rent the Runway in 2008, after she watched her sister overspend on a new dress rather than wear an old one00:54:59 07/08/2017
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In the early 2000s, Perry Chen was trying to put on a concert in New Orleans when he thought, what if fans could fund this in advance?00:41:19 31/07/2017
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In 2001, when most of us had no idea what it meant to "go viral," Jonah Peretti shared an email prank among his friends — and saw it00:48:47 27/07/2017
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We're hard at work planning our upcoming live shows, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Samuel Adams. In 1984, Jim Koch00:36:24 24/07/2017
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Cotton muslin baby blankets are commonplace in Australia, where Raegan Moya-Jones grew up. But when she started a new life and family00:42:24 17/07/2017
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After being involved in Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, Jann Wenner wanted to start a publication to capture the exploding counterculture00:46:50 10/07/2017
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We're hard at work planning our upcoming live shows, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Spanx. At 27, Sara Blakely was00:29:28 03/07/2017
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In 1997, Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick was deployed in Southeast Asia, where he was stationed in a remote warehouse for weeks with no way00:43:16 26/06/2017
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In 2007, architect Miguel McKelvey convinced his friend Adam Neumann to share an office space in Brooklyn. That was the beginning of00:47:02 19/06/2017
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Lisa Price worked in television but had a passion for beauty products. At her mother's suggestion, she began selling her homemade moisturizer00:41:47 12/06/2017
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Jerry Murrell's mother used to tell him, you can always make money if you know how to make a good burger. In 1986 — after failing at00:35:16 05/06/2017
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Blake Mycoskie started and sold four businesses before age 30. But only in Argentina did he discover the idea he'd want to pursue long00:53:23 29/05/2017
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In 1981, engineer Rod Canion left Texas Instruments and co-founded Compaq, which created the first IBM-compatible personal computer.00:38:25 22/05/2017
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In 1978, college drop-out John Mackey scraped together $45,000 to open his first health food store, "Safer Way." A few years later he00:45:29 15/05/2017
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In 1972, Maureen and Tony Wheeler bought a beat-up car and drove from London "as far east as we could go." They wound up in Australia,00:40:04 08/05/2017
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As a kid, Troy Carter dreamed of being a rapper, but soon discovered he was a better manager than a musician. He took Lady Gaga from00:44:49 01/05/2017
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Barbara Corcoran grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Jersey – with nine brothers and sisters. But she used her charisma00:50:51 24/04/2017
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Brian Scudamore didn't dream of a life hauling away other people's trash. But when he needed to pay for college, he bought a $700 pickup00:40:03 17/04/2017
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App developer Apoorva Mehta almost gave up on being an entrepreneur until he figured out what he really wanted to do: find a hassle-free00:39:02 10/04/2017
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When Steve Case started out in the tech business in the mid-80s, the idea of the internet — as we think of it today — didn't exist.00:32:36 03/04/2017
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As a refugee growing up in Tel Aviv, Haim Saban remembers not having enough money to eat. As an adult, he hustled his way into the entertainment00:41:15 27/03/2017
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Ever since she was a little girl playing dress-up in her aunt's closet, Kendra Scott loved fashion. Her first business was a hat shop,00:42:45 20/03/2017
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After living as a monk in India and running a plastics company in Florida, Manoj Bhargava decided to launch something new: a one-shot00:33:48 13/03/2017
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Twenty-five years ago, when Mei Xu emigrated from China to the U.S., she loved going to Bloomingdale's to gaze at their housewares.00:41:03 06/03/2017
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Before he turned 40, Nolan Bushnell founded two brands that permanently shaped the way Americans amuse themselves: the iconic video00:49:06 27/02/2017
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In 1962, Gordon Segal — with his wife Carole — opened a scrappy Chicago shop called Crate & Barrel. That store turned into a housewares00:29:47 20/02/2017
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As founder and CEO of Beyond Meat, Ethan Brown believes he can turn peas and lentils into protein that tastes — and feels – exactly00:25:22 16/02/2017
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Ridesharing wasn't a thing 12 years ago when John Zimmer was in college. But a class on green cities got him thinking about the glut00:39:40 13/02/2017
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A 1991 conversation at a Mexican restaurant led Kate & Andy Spade to ask, "What's missing in designer handbags?" Kate's answer was a00:39:54 06/02/2017
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Richard Branson took a record shop and built it into a label, a bank, an airline, space tourism, and 200 other businesses — all under00:33:15 30/01/2017
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Computer scientist Tony Hsieh made millions off the dot-com boom. But he didn't make his mark until he built Zappos — a customer service00:28:16 23/01/2017
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In 1997, after going for a long run, Seth Goldman was frustrated with the sugar-filled drinks at the corner market. So he brewed up00:29:31 16/01/2017
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A decade ago, full-time mom Alli Webb noticed a gap in the beauty market: there was nowhere that just focused on blow-drying hair. Now00:32:09 09/01/2017
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Zumba began as a mistake: aerobics teacher Beto Perez brought the wrong music to class, then improvised a dance routine to go with it.00:37:37 02/01/2017
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In 2008, it was nearly impossible to buy a fashionable, affordable pair of glasses online. That simple frustration inspired the idea00:30:44 26/12/2016
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Melissa and Doug Bernstein's first success was a wooden 'fuzzy puzzle' of farm animals. Today, Melissa & Doug makes over 2,000 kinds00:36:09 19/12/2016
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In 1973, Yvon Chouinard started Patagonia to make climbing gear he couldn't find elsewhere. Over decades of growth, he has implemented00:25:43 12/12/2016
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Mark Cuban made millions off of tech startups, then billions off of stocks — and later went on to buy and revive the Dallas Mavericks.00:33:36 05/12/2016
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In 1996, Angie Hicks spent hours reading contractor reviews to members over the phone. Today, the online review and referral service,00:29:21 28/11/2016
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In 1968, competitors sued to keep Herb Kelleher's new airline grounded. After a 3-year court fight, the first plane took off from Dallas.00:33:45 21/11/2016
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As a kid, José Andrés tended fires for his father's backyard paella cookouts. Later, he trained with the best Spanish chefs, and began00:27:20 14/11/2016
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L.A. Reid began his music career as a drummer. Then he co-founded LaFace Records, discovering dozens of future pop superstars. Reid00:31:54 07/11/2016
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In 1984, Jim Koch felt suffocated by his cushy but boring corporate job. So he left, dusted off an old family beer recipe, started Sam00:33:19 31/10/2016
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Jane Wurwand moved to Los Angeles with a suitcase and a beauty school diploma. She started what would become Dermalogica, an international00:38:38 24/10/2016
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A chance encounter with a stranger gave Joe Gebbia an idea to help pay his rent. That idea turned into Airbnb — a company that now has00:41:17 17/10/2016
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Suroosh Alvi was a recovering addict when he started a scrappy underground magazine in Montreal. It grew into VICE Media — a multi-billion00:35:07 10/10/2016
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Gary Erickson asked his mom, "Can you make a cookie without butter, sugar or oil?" The result was Clif Bar, an energy bar named after00:27:16 03/10/2016
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As a kid, Cathy Hughes practiced her DJ routine while her siblings banged on the bathroom door. As an adult, she founded Radio One,00:31:58 26/09/2016
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Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched their photo-sharing app with a server that crashed every other hour. Despite a chaotic start,00:28:16 19/09/2016
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At 27, Sara Blakely was selling fax machines and desperate to reinvent her life. So she came up with Spanx — hosiery that eliminates00:26:01 12/09/2016
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Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal00:01:57 02/09/2016
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