How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Vox Media
Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds. How I Built This is part of the Vox Media Podcast…
Recent episodes
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: “I Was a Great Founder and a Terrible CEO”
Nov 2, 2026 • 1 h 16 minAdvice Line with Tope Awotona of Calendly
Oct 29, 2026 • 1 h 01 minAdvice Line with Seth Berkowitz of Insomnia Cookies
Oct 23, 2026 • 44 minSweet Loren’s: Loren Castle. How A Recipe Makeover Built a National Cookie Brand
Oct 19, 2026 • 1 h 09 minAdvice Line with Tara Bosch of SmartSweets
Oct 15, 2026 • 48 minAlamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League (2023)
Oct 12, 2026 • 1 h 21 minAdvice Line with Nick Green of Thrive Market
Oct 8, 2026 • 45 min10 Years of How I Built This: A Decade of Innovation, Risk and Reinvention
Oct 5, 2026 • 1 h 16 minAdvice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring (2025)
Oct 1, 2026 • 47 minAdvice Line with Danny Meyer of Shake Shack
Sep 24, 2026 • 44 minBanza: Brian Rudolph. The Chickpea Pasta That Nearly Turned to Mush
Sep 21, 2026 • 1 h 02 minAdvice Line with Michelle Wahler of Beyond Yoga
Sep 10, 2026 • 43 minAdvice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
Sep 3, 2026 • 44 minBogg Bag: Kim Vaccarella. The $100 Million Business She Almost Abandoned
Aug 31, 2026 • 1 h 27 minAdvice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop
Aug 27, 2026 • 51 minLate July Snacks: Nicole Bernard Dawes. Crackers and Cookies were Failing… Tortilla Chips Saved Them
Aug 24, 2026 • 1 h 24 minAdvice Line with Daymond John of FUBU
Aug 20, 2026 • 45 minYETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
Aug 17, 2026 • 1 h 29 minAdvice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor
Aug 13, 2026 • 45 minBobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
Aug 10, 2026 • 1 h 24 minAdvice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty (September 2025)
Aug 6, 2026 • 51 minAdvice Line: "Strategy Sessions"
Jul 30, 2026 • 48 minAdvice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit
Jul 23, 2026 • 47 minAdvice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox
Jul 16, 2026 • 43 min
What HN said
- hoofheartedMar 2023I recently listened to an episode of the How I Built This podcast with one of the members of the PayPal mafia.
He mentioned that one of Peter Thiels greatest abilities is to spot and predict upcoming economic declines. Max Levchin said that Peter seemed to always know when to get in and out of markets.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-...
- a_cJun 2023I assume the article is a transcript of an episode of "How I Built This", if podcast is more your thing
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/atlassian-mike-cannon-...
- the_arunJun 2019There is a podcast for the interview Guy Raz did for “How I built this” with Miguel McKelvey https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-... . Thought it was a pretty good startup story
- the_arunSep 2022I liked Slack's story too. Here is the podcast from Guy Raz (How I built this) with Stewart Butterfield - https://podcasts.apple.com/bs/podcast/slack-flickr-stewart-b...