How I Built This will offer invaluable insight, direction and advice to entrepreneurs at every point on their entrepreneurial path.
Guy Raz is the creator, editorial director, and host of three podcasts for NPR, including How I Built This, TED Radio Hour, and the children's program Wow in the World, which are heard by more than 15 million people every month all over the world. Guy has also served as a Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University and taught journalism at Georgetown and George Washington Universities. He is the father of two boys and recently relocated from Washington DC to Berkeley, California.
A must-read for anyone who wants to start a business, grow a
business, or be inspired by those who do. -- Adam Grant, author of
Originals
Guy Raz is supremely himself in this guide for aspiring
entrepreneurs: brilliantly perceptive, incessantly curious,
infectiously energetic and above all, a master storyteller. --
Angela Duckworth, author of Grit
If only this book would have come out years ago, building my
business would have been so much simpler. At least we have it now!
-- Simon Sinek, author of Start with Why
An indispensable guide for anyone eager to challenge the status quo
in pursuit of some new and better version of the world. Highly
recommended. -- Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and co-author
of Blitzscaling
Anyone who reads How I Built This will have an incredible
advantage. Guy provides the compass, the map and the headlamp you
need to navigate the wilderness of entrepreneurship -- Joe Gebbia,
entrepreneur and co-founder of Airbnb
Guy Raz has an extraordinary talent for not only unearthing the
most powerful ideas in any story, but also translating those ideas
into wisdom accessible for everyone -- Chris Anderson, head of
TED
Truly remarkable stories . . . about truly remarkable people. Guy
Raz captures their stories on the page to incredible effect. --
Jennifer Hyman, CEO and founder of Rent the Runway
This book is all about inspiration - told with blood, sweat, and
tears. You'll come away refreshed. And ready to hit the ground
running -- Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, 'shark' on Shark Tank, and
proprietor of the Dallas Mavericks
Through stories of passion, audacity and courage, Guy weaves
together a shared business-building experience that's both
inspiring and real. -- Lara Merriken, founder of LAERABAR
A love letter to the idea of possibility . . . This book explores
all the discrete nooks and crannies of an entrepreneur's voyage
through success and failure -- Alli Webb, Drybar founder
If you're determined to reach for your dream, read this book --
Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group and 'shark' on
Shark Tank
What's so remarkable about Guy's book is not so much that all these
individuals saw their dreams come true, but that as their stories
of overcoming frustrations and hurdles unfold, you end up cheering
for them to succeed -- Tony Hsieh, author of Delivering
Happiness and CEO of Zappos.com
If you enjoy the How I Built This podcast, you'll love this book.
You'll identify with the ups, downs, and pivots that make up the
proverbial roller coaster ride of entrepreneurs -- Stacy Madison,
founder of Stacy's Pita Chips and BeBOLD Bars
Guy is clearly a person who is tapped into this community of
entrepreneurs and shares stories of relevance to our community.
Now, more than ever, entrepreneurs and small businesses need a
curator of stories and Guy is that 'guy' -- Lisa Price, founder of
Carol's Daughter
These stories of founders and their companies are told with the
same energy and openness it takes to be an entrepreneur -- Eric
Ries, CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and author of The Lean
Startup
I love Guy Raz's How I Built This podcast and the book was
just as great. There's probably nobody else who could tell these
inspiring stories as well as Guy. From page one I was fully
invested -- Logic
It's so inspiring it almost makes me want to start another business
-- Sarah LaFleur, founder and CEO, M.M.LaFleur
Now, more than ever, we need dreamers and builders - this book is
full of them and their stories of inspiration -- Alexis Ohanian,
co-founder of Reddit and Initialized
If you've ever dreamed of starting a business, How I Built
This is a must-read -- Michael Dubin, co-founder and CEO of
Dollar Shave Club
Guy Raz has seen inside the brains of more founders and
hyper-growth entrepreneurs than anyone I've ever met! What an
incredible buffet of how-to-build-it-right-wisdom -- Brian
Scudamore, founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and O2E Brands
I can't think of a better placed person to tell us if starting and
growing a company is really about hard work or good luck! -- Tim
Brown, co-founder and co-CEO of Allbirds
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