How I Built This
Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz. This book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on starting, launching, and building a successful venture.
Great ideas often come from a simple spark. A New Zealand soccer player notices all the surplus wool his country produces and converts it into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the best way to spread his mindfulness teachings by launching an app (Headspace). And a sandwich cart vendor converts leftover pita bread and starts a multimillion-dollar business (Stacy’s Pita Chips).
Read amazing true stories from success entrepreneurs.
Award-winning journalist and NPR host Guy Raz have interviewed more than 200 highly successful entrepreneurs to uncover amazing true stories like these. In How I Built This, he shares tips for every entrepreneur’s journey. From the early days of formulating your idea to raising money and recruiting employees and to fending off competitors. And finally, to paying yourself a real salary. Accordingly, How I Built This is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of starting their own business. Or wondered how trailblazing entrepreneurs made their dreams a reality.
Guy Raz is an acclaimed radio and podcast personality and creator of the popular podcasts “How I Built This,” and “TED Radio Hour.” These have found a consistent home on the top charts. “How I Built This” is a podcast about the most outstanding innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
Guy Raz is also the creator of NPR’s first-ever podcast for kids, “Wow in the World,” as well as Spotify’s “The Rewind” and Luminary’s “Wisdom From The Top.” His shows are heard by more than 19 million people each month around the world. “How I Built This” and “TED Radio Hour” has been named top podcasts by Apple Podcasts. Furthermore Inc. Magazine has called How I Built This “the best podcast to take on the New Year.”
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