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“The origin stories behind the world's most iconic companies.”
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Guy Raz is NPR's best interviewer, and How I Built This is the gold standard for entrepreneurship storytelling. Each episode traces a company's journey from zero to iconic, featuring founders like Sara Blakely (Spanx), James Dyson, and Whitney Wolfe Herd (Bumble). The production quality is the highest on this list — NPR's audio engineering is simply unmatched. For investors, understanding how great companies actually get built is essential context for evaluating new ones.
Fun Fact
Guy Raz has said that the most common trait among all the founders he has interviewed is not intelligence or creativity — it is an irrational persistence that borders on delusion.
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