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Heroes & Myths in Entrepreneurship -- Guy Raz
WithGuy Raz
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"I'm in a movie, but it's the wrong movie." For better or for worse, we tell the story of entrepreneurs as one of the mythical hero's journey: that's there's a call, a test (multiple tests!), a destination... But nothing truly follows such a clean, linear, storytelling arc. Stories of success and… More on the show's page
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How I Built Resilience (Special Edition): Guy Raz
WithGuy Raz
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On this special episode, Stacey Vanek Smith interviews Guy about his brand new book, How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs. Stacey asks Guy about growing up with entrepreneurial parents, working overseas as a war reporter, and how elements…
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League (2023)
MentionsGuy Raz
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In the early 1990’s, Tim League spent $50,000 in savings to lease an abandoned movie theater on the wrong side of the tracks, a shaky experiment that eventually grew into a thriving national chain. As Tim and his wife Karrie built theaters in Austin and beyond, they made a name for themselves by…
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Apple Podcasts10 Years of How I Built This: A Decade of Innovation, Risk and Reinvention
MentionsGuy RazKatrina LakeSara Blakely
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Stories about starting a business are almost always full of drama. They’re about ambition, loss, triumph, catastrophe, resilience. And they’re also full of life lessons – which is why Guy Raz launched How I Built This 10 years ago: He wanted to host a free master class in entrepreneurship, one…
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Apple PodcastsKhan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
MentionsBill GatesGuy Raz
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Khan Academy offers hundreds of free tutorials in fifty languages, and has 170 million monthly global users. It all began in 2009 when Sal Khan walked away from a high-paying job to start a business that had no way of making money. His idea to launch a non-profit teaching platform was sparked…
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Apple PodcastsCarlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire.
MentionsGuy Raz
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In the summer of 2000, Razor scooters were everywhere, on sidewalks, in schools, even in Silicon Valley offices. At the center of it all was Carlton Calvin, an ex-lawyer turned toy mogul who had already ridden, and crashed, multiple crazes, from Pogs to yo-yos. Carlton knew how to spot what kids…
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Apple PodcastsDon Vultaggio: AriZona Beverage Company - The Snap Decision That Outsmarted Snapple
MentionsGuy Raz
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What does it take to turn a Brooklyn beer salesman into the king of iced tea? In the early 1990s, the iced tea market was dominated by Lipton, Nestea, and Snapple. But Don Vultaggio saw an opening. A single moment, watching Snapple cases fly off a truck in winter, sparked an idea that would change…
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