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How I Built This

The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

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How I Built This

By: Guy Raz
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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 how to start, launch, and build a successful venture.

Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the very best way to spread his mindfulness teachings is by launching an app (Headspace). A sandwich cart vendor finds a way to reuse leftover pita bread and turns it into a multimillion-dollar business (Stacy’s Pita Chips).

Award-winning journalist and NPR host Guy Raz has 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, to fending off competitors, to finally paying yourself a real salary. This is a must-listen for anyone who has ever dreamed of starting their own business or wondered how trailblazing entrepreneurs made their own dreams a reality.

©2020 Guy Raz (P)2020 Audible, Inc. Business Development & Entrepreneurship Career Success Entrepreneurship Motivation & Self-Improvement New Business Enterprises Inspiring Business Success

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I loved every minute of this. I’ve heard some of these business’s stories before, but Guy Raz managed to uncover aspects that feel more real and put their founding into a much more relatable perspective. He seems to ask the right questions and really gain the trust of the founders he interviews. I’m left feeling like a really can start the business I want to start!

Great book for aspiring entrepreneurs

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Guy Raz did a fantastic job writing these stories and an even better job narrating them with the emotion and inflection indicative of his iconic voice. I recommend this book for all entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs.

Loved the story

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I love the podcast and the book! Thank you, Guy, for lighting my fire even more!!!

Love it!

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Lots of great stories that inspire and motivate you to follow your dreams and do something great in life.

Great audio book

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Loved it. Listened 3 times in a two week period. Guy does a great job writing and reading this excellent book.

Great book for current and future business leaders

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I'm not sure how much this audio book differs from the podcast, but I really enjoyed the stories & lessons in the order it was presented.

Excellent. Inspiring.

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If you enjoy the HIBT podcast you will love this book! Guy does and amazing job of weaving the stories of many of the entrepreneurs he’s interviewed into a guide map for starting or growing your own business in the best way. As a small business owner myself, I found it so interesting and inspiring to hear how things played out over many years, sometimes in spite of all odds, for these business owners to end up where they are today. For me it was a testament that God is I think he details of all our lives, Its hard to overlook the divine intervention that seems to take place in some of these stories. My husband doesn’t usually like business/personal development books like I do, but we listened to this while we hiked and he really enjoyed it and got some ideas for changes they could make in the company where he is an executive. Well done, Guy! Can’t wait for Vol 2!

Incredible Origin Stories and Storytelling

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As a social entrepreneur who has completed several entrepreneurial incubators I enjoyed the opportunity to learn from the stories of founders and companies - their failures, struggles and successes.

Loved this audiobook

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I wish I had read this book 20 years ago when I started my business. If you are just starting definitely read it. If you are a mature business read it for the help he gives you

Very good book

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Despite occasionally being a bit Pollyanna, this podcast series masquerading as an audiobook provides an excellent deconstruction of starting a business. How I Built This is full of real-world lessons and examples of what to and what not to do. It's also highly engaging and entertaining.

Excellent real-world podcast

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