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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.
Topics: Business
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| jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
| while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
[ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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-o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
sleep 0.34
done
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Example Transcripts
Advice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop September 3, 2026
Late July Snacks: Nicole Bernard Dawes. Crackers and Cookies were Failing… Tortilla Chips Saved Them August 31, 2026
Advice Line with Daymond John of FUBU August 27, 2026
YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand August 24, 2026
Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor August 20, 2026
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants August 17, 2026
Advice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty (September 2025) August 13, 2026
MadeGood: Salma and Nima Fotovat Lost Their First Business. They Grew Their Next One Into a Snack Giant. August 10, 2026
Advice Line: "Strategy Sessions" August 6, 2026
Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It August 3, 2026
Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit July 30, 2026
Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company. July 27, 2026
Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox July 23, 2026
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business. July 20, 2026
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks. The Secrets of a Master Brand Builder (2023) July 13, 2026
Advice Line with Jeni Britton of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams (2025) July 9, 2026
Catalina Crunch: Krishna Kaliannan. From Homemade Keto Cocoa Puffs to Breakfast Aisle Breakthrough July 6, 2026
Advice Line with Ronnen Harary of Spin Master/PAW Patrol July 2, 2026
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant June 29, 2026
Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products June 25, 2026
STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct June 22, 2026
Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics June 18, 2026
Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar June 11, 2026
Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019) June 8, 2026
Advice Line with Tim Ferriss (August 2025) June 4, 2026
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company May 18, 2026
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant February 9, 2026
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker January 15, 2026
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair October 30, 2025
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft October 23, 2025
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash October 2, 2025
(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp August 25, 2025
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström March 17, 2025
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams May 6, 2024
AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane March 14, 2024
Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker December 14, 2023
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2) June 20, 2022
Discord: Jason Citron March 7, 2022
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut July 12, 2021
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar February 8, 2021
Dropbox: Drew Houston November 9, 2020
How I Built Resilience: Niraj Shah and Steve Conine of Wayfair August 29, 2020
Wayfair: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine (2018) August 24, 2020
How I Built Resilience: Live with Tony Xu and Marcia Kilgore May 21, 2020
How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes May 9, 2020
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield January 30, 2020
Wayfair: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine April 16, 2018
Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal (2016) February 19, 2018
Lyft: John Zimmer February 13, 2017
Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal December 26, 2016
Airbnb: Joe Gebbia October 17, 2016
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger September 19, 2016
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