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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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 -
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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Cuddly as a cactus and charming as an eel, Whoville's favorite talk show host is back on the mic! The Grinch may hate the holidays,00:06:51 25/11/2024
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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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