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How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz / Wondery
United States
How I Built This is an addictive blend of entrepreneurial mythology and human drama, where Guy Raz taps into the origin stories of world-changing companies with an interviewer’s charm and a storyteller’s eye for the emotional core. It’s business as biography, pulling apart the triumphs and failures with just the right mix of reverence and skepticism.
"To potential listeners, How I Built This is my go-to podcast recommendation. I specifically refer to the Dyson episode. In my work as an podcast audience development director, I refer to How I Built This for format suggestions, specifically, using an engaging clip at the top of an episode."
- Catrin Skaperdas, The Podcast Guys/Italian, For Sure/The Human Upgrade
How I Built This with Guy Raz is a captivating, deeply human exploration of entrepreneurship, where success is dissected not just through business acumen, but through the emotional and personal hurdles that come with building something from nothing. Host Guy Raz takes listeners inside the minds of some of the world’s most iconic founders—people who transformed their ideas into global movements—and uncovers the heart of their journeys: the failures, the serendipity, the doubts. It’s a show that celebrates the messy process of creation, where the story behind the product is often more compelling than the product itself.
Raz’s interviewing style is gentle yet probing, drawing out vulnerability and resilience with an infectious curiosity. The result is a podcast that doesn’t just tell success stories; it humanizes them, showing that behind every triumph is a trail of missteps, learning, and sacrifice. How I Built This is a tribute to the messy, imperfect art of innovation.