How I Built This with Guy Raz
Episodes
How I Built Resilience: Live with Alli Webb and Andy Puddicombe & Rich Pierson
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, talks with Guy about why she believes that investing time into fashion and beauty is still worthwhile, even though ma...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Kyle Connaughton and Daniel Humm
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Connaughton's restaurant has been impacted by wildfires, floods, and now, the COVID-19 pandemic. Kyle spoke with Guy about keeping SingleThread F...
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 biggest problems: au...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Sarah LaFleur
23 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Sarah LaFleur started M.M.LaFleur, she wanted to help women dress efficiently and comfortably for the office. Now that most of her customers are ...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Tony Xu and Marcia Kilgore
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Tony Xu started DoorDash in 2013, he wanted to help local restaurants stay afloat by introducing them to online delivery. Today, his quest remain...
Jo Loves: Jo Malone CBE
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. By the time she was ...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Tobias Lütke and Jon Stein
16 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Tobias Lütke started Shopify, he wanted to empower merchants to start small and build resilience. Tobi spoke with Guy about the relevance of tho...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Samin Nosrat, the author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, talks with Guy about unintentionally writing the ultimate quarantine cookbook, and how she's been i...
Impossible Foods: Pat Brown
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, he'd become a...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Slack's co-founder Stewart Butterfield wonders what the future of work will look like for his 12 million customers. Springfree Trampoline's co-founder...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Christina Tosi and Gary Erickson & Kit Crawford
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since March, only five of Milk Bar's 18 locations have been up and running, but founder Christina Tosi tells Guy she is determined to bring the joy of...
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 wondered if he shou...
How I Built Resilience: Live with José Andrés
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When chef José Andrés isn't running Michelin-starred restaurants, he's feeding the masses through World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit he founded that...
Fitbit: James Park
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2006, James Park had what he describes as a "lightning bolt" moment when he first used a Nintendo Wii. Fascinated by its motion-tracking controller...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Simon Sinek
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Each week, Guy is hosting online conversations with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating these turbulent times. Today's conversatio...
Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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: "These sheets...
How I Built Resilience: Live with David Neeleman and Tristan Walker
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Each week, Guy will be hosting brief online conversations with founders and members of the How I Built This community about how they're navigating the...
Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman met at Georgetown University in 2003 and quickly bonded over their frustration at the lack of healthy food on campus...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Susan Griffin-Black
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Each week, Guy will be hosting brief online conversations with founders and members of the How I Built This community about how they're navigating the...
S'well: Sarah Kauss
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Tucson with her mom, she...
How I Built Resilience: Live with Jeni Britton Bauer
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Each week, Guy will be hosting brief online conversations with founders and members of the How I Built This community about how they're navigating the...
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Ken Grossman
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 his first home brew...
Ben & Jerry's: Ben Cohen And Jerry Greenfield (2017)
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid-1970s two childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield decided to open an ice cream shop in Burlington, Vermont. Their quirky little s...
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna launched Birchbox from business school in 2010, they set out to disrupt the beauty industry by delivering monthl...
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stacy Madison of Stacy's Pita Chips
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our ninth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Stacy Madison, co-founder of Stacy's Pita Chips. In this live conversation with Guy, ...
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded and sold their first company before they turned 20. They created software to help eBay users manage invento...
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Casey Neistat was a teenager, the odds were against him; he had dropped out of high school, was washing dishes to pay rent, and was a father by a...
Live From The HIBT Summit: Jeni Britton Bauer of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our eighth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Jeni Britton Bauer, the founder of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. In this live conversa...
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After noticing more and more people sign up for yoga in the late 1990s, Chip Wilson bet everything on an athletic apparel company aimed toward young p...
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. All of t...
Live From The HIBT Summit: David Neeleman of JetBlue Airways
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our seventh episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue Airways. In this live conversation with Guy,...
Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich (2018)
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1980s, Ron Shaich bought a small, struggling Boston bakery chain called Au Bon Pain, and built it out to 250 locations nationwide. Ron th...
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When she was working corporate jobs in New York City, Sarah LaFleur hated getting dressed in the morning; the choices in her closet felt overwhelming,...
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our sixth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr and Slack. Both companies emerged out o...
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018)
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with the idea of an ...
Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While she was a student at business school, Shazi Visram ran into an old friend-- a new mother of twins. The friend confided she felt like a bad mom ...
Spindrift: Bill Creelman
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Creelman graduated from college in 1996 with a business plan — to sell smoked fish from Nantucket. But over time, that idea morphed unpredictab...
Live From The HIBT Summit: Marcia Kilgore
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our fifth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore, founder of Bliss, FitFlop, BeautyPie and more. Th...
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before it became fashionable to start a tech company in your dorm room, Michael Dell did exactly that. In 1983, he began selling upgrade kits for PC's...
Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018)
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For many of us, chicken salad is just another sandwich filling, but Stacy Brown turned it into a $75 million business. In 2007, she was a divorced mot...
Live From The HIBT Summit: Tariq Farid Of Edible Arrangements
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our fourth episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Tariq Farid, founder of Edible Arrangements. In a live conversation with Guy, Tariq ...
Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018)
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, New York; that was...
Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our third live episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, co-founders of Instagram. They talk to Guy about...
Tate's Bake Shop: Kathleen King
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen King was 11 years old when she started baking cookies to sell at her family's farm stand on Long Island. After college, she opened a small ba...
Live From The HIBT Summit: Troy Carter
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our second episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features founder and investor Troy Carter, who re-started his career in the music business af...
Minted: Mariam Naficy (2018)
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2000, Mariam Naficy sold her first company, an online cosmetics store called Eve.com, for $110 million. Several years later, she got the entreprene...
Live From The HIBT Summit: Sara Blakely Of Spanx
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our first episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx. In front of a live audience, she tells Guy how she st...
Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s and 90s, Curt Richardson started making simple plastic boxes in his garage in Fort Collins, Colorado. They were originally designed to ke...
Outdoor Voices: Tyler Haney
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 her workout outfits l...
Remembering Jake Burton Carpenter
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The founder of Burton Snowboards, Jake Burton Carpenter, has died. He was 65 years old. We are grateful that Jake shared his story with us in 2017 and...
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal (2017)
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1962, Gordon Segal—with his wife Carole—opened a scrappy Chicago shop called Crate & Barrel. That store turned into a housewares empire that ha...
Evite: Selina Tobaccowala
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of the first dot-com boom, Selina Tobaccowala and college friend Al Lieb were determined to start a tech company. After a few false star...
Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Holden grew up in Maine, working on lobster boats and in his father's lobster processing plant. But his parents pushed him to find a more stable ...
FUBU: Daymond John (2018)
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Lobster and trying to f...
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2000, Lara Merriken was 32, recently divorced, and without a job when she decided to make energy bars by mixing cherries, dates, and almonds in her...
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Blumberg made his early career by helping build two of the most successful shows in radio and podcasting: Planet Money and This American Life. In...
Live Episode! Milk Bar: Christina Tosi
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For Christina Tosi, baking wasn't just a delicious childhood hobby – it was a daily creative outlet and a way to blow off steam. After college, she ...
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Carley Roney and David Liu got married, they had a seat-of-the-pants celebration on a sweltering Washington rooftop. They never planned to go int...
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The very first time Tristan Walker shaved, he woke up the next morning with razor bumps all over his face. "I was like, what is this?" he remembers sa...
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Puddicombe is not your typical entrepreneur – in his early twenties, he gave away everything he owned to train as a Buddhist monk. But after te...
Stitch Fix: Katrina Lake (2018)
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, Katrina Lake recruited 20 friends for an experiment: she wanted to see if she could choose clothes for them that accurately matched their sty...
Dippin' Dots: Curt Jones
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1980s, Curt Jones was working in a Kentucky lab, using liquid nitrogen to flash-freeze animal feed. He wondered if he could re-invigorate ...
The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 80s, brothers Bert and John Jacobs were living as nomads, traveling from college to college selling t-shirts out of their van. It wasn't a...
Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019)
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cotton muslin baby blankets are commonplace in Australia, where Raegan Moya-Jones grew up. But when she started a new life and family in NYC, she coul...
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017)
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983, two hippie farmers decided to sell homemade organic yogurt to help raise money for their educational farm in New Hampshire. As the enterprise...
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018)
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 a successful serial ...
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2004, German programmer Tobias Lütke was living in Ottawa with his girlfriend. An avid snowboarder, he wanted to launch an online snowboard shop, ...
Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Angie and Dan Bastian weren't trying to disrupt an industry or build a massive company – they just wanted to put aside some money for their kids' co...
Dyson: James Dyson (2018)
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, building more th...
EO Products: Susan Griffin-Black & Brad Black
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1990s, Susan Griffin-Black was working for Esprit in San Francisco. On a business trip to London, she walked into a Covent Garden apothec...
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve public education in the US. For her senior thesis, she proposed creating a ...
Dave's Killer Bread: Dave Dahl
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Dahl's entrepreneurial journey began in prison. In 1987, he was addicted to drugs and incarcerated for home burglary. For 15 years he bounced fro...
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2004, two former Paypal engineers, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russ Simmons, were spit-balling new internet ideas. Out of their brainstorm came a site wh...
Chesapeake Bay Candle: Mei Xu (2017)
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. She eventually st...
Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up, Tim Brown discovered he was very good at two things: design and soccer. While playing professional soccer in New Zealand, he was turned of...
Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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-grid lifestyle ...
Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990's, Stacy Madison and her boyfriend Mark Andrus were selling pita sandwiches from a converted hot dog cart in Boston. They decided to bake ...
Zappos: Tony Hsieh (2017)
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Computer scientist Tony Hsieh made millions off the dot-com boom. But he didn't make his mark until he built Zappos — a customer service company tha...
Belkin International: Chet Pipkin
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 started hanging out i...
Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017)
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Tynan's experience in the ephemeral e-market of LivingSocial made her want to start a business that she could touch and feel. After being charge...
Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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-commerce executive. S...
Bumble: Whitney Wolfe (2017)
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 and filed a lawsuit...
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1970, George Zimmer was a college graduate with no real job prospects and little direction. That's when his father, an executive at a boy's clothin...
Chez Panisse: Alice Waters
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s, Alice Waters studied abroad in France – and discovered a culinary world far from the processed food popular in America. When she retur...
Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1980s, a New Zealand engineer named Keith Alexander wanted to buy a trampoline for his kids. After his wife said trampolines were too dang...
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1981, engineer Rod Canion left Texas Instruments and co-founded Compaq, which created the first IBM-compatible personal computer. This opened the d...
Away: Jen Rubio
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In early 2015, Jen Rubio was racing through an airport to catch a flight when her suitcase broke, leaving a trail of clothing behind her. She tried to...
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, Logic the rapper, born as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, released his first official mixtape titled "Young, Broke & Infamous." At 20 years old, L...
Squarespace: Anthony Casalena
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like many classic technology stories, Squarespace started in a college dorm room. In 2003, 21-year-old Anthony Casalena created a website-building too...
Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017)
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983, Eileen Fisher signed up for a fashion trade show with no experience, no garments, no patterns or sketches – nothing but a few ideas for a w...
Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, Roxanne Quimby was trying to live a simpler life – one that rejected the pursuit of material comforts. She moved to Maine, built a cab...
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Blake Mycoskie started and sold four businesses before age 30. But only in Argentina did he discover the idea he'd want to pursue long term. After see...
JetBlue Airways: David Neeleman
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 that was acquired by...
Canva: Melanie Perkins
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When she was just 19 years old, Melanie Perkins dreamt of transforming the graphic design and publishing industries. But she started small, launching ...
Bonobos: Andy Dunn
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Andy Dunn was in business school, his housemate Brian Spaly created a new type of men's pants: stylish, tailored trousers that fit well in both t...
Five Guys: Jerry Murrell (2019)
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 at a number of bus...
SoulCycle: Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Before Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice met, they shared a common belief: New York City gyms didn't have the kind of exercise classes they craved, and ...
Remembering Herb Kelleher
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, has died. He was 87. We are grateful Herb shared his story with us in 2016. We are...
Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018)
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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? His idea didn't...
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Years after his father created a hit singing group of anthropomorphic rodents called The Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. made it his mission to revive...