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Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success.

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Latest How I Built This with Guy Raz transcripts

Sweet Loren’s: Loren Castle. How A Recipe Makeover Built a National Cookie Brand

October 19, 2026

Guy Raz (0:00)

Our presenting sponsor today is Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Every founder on this show started with a hard question. Not the marketing plan, the 2 AM kind. Is this idea any good? Am I the one to build it? Should I quit my job? Anthropic got built the same way. A public benefit corporation founded on one hard…

So, they asked over 100,000 people, their hopes and their fears, and are publishing what they find, even the uncomfortable parts. Me?

Loren Castle (4:26)

I'm talking every day in my apartment. I would just test different types of potato starch and tapioca starch, you know, in different proportions of it. So honestly, it was just so much playing around. I tried to hire food scientists to help me because I thought like that would be the easy solve.

And the food always tasted like a science project.

Guy Raz (4:56)

Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Raz and on the show today, how Loren Castle made cookie dough taste good, even without gluten, dairy, and eggs, and then grew that into Sweet Loren's, a brand that sold in more than 30,000 stores.

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