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How I Built This
- The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
- Narrated by: Guy Raz
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The number one Wall Street Journal Business Book Best seller & Top 10 New York Times Best seller
Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, his 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 football 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 multi-million dollar business (Stacy’s Pita Chips).
Award-winning podcast creator Guy Raz has interviewed more than 200 highly successful innovators from across the world, from the founders of Five Guys, Airbnb and Bumble to James Dyson and Reed Hastings of Netflix, 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 finding your market and, finally, to paying yourself a real salary. This is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of starting their own business or wondered how trail-blazing go-getters made their own dreams a reality.
Critic Reviews
"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)
"These stories of founders and their companies are told with the same energy and openness it takes to be an entrepreneur." (Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup)
"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)
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- tim roach
- 15-09-2020
Great stories and very well read
I loved the way each story unfolds in this book. I also like the fact the author read the audible copy and he is a great presenter.
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- Lizzy Williamson
- 09-10-2020
Buy this book!
As a big fan of Guy Raz’s podcast, I wondered if this book would offer more than what I had already absorbed and learnt on his amazing interviews. It sure did! I’ve finished feeling so inspired and equipped with so much more knowledge to keep building my own business. Thank you Guy!
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- Kenneth Gomez
- 22-11-2020
Amazing
This book is an offshoot if his famous podcast. But his books is laid out in a nice easy to listen format. I loved the topics that were chosen, from starting a company to the problems cofounders have, selling companies.
It's not easy starting companies but the amount of in depth examples are very suitable.
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- Maurice Timoti
- 27-07-2021
A must listen for ALL :)
An easy listen! I highly recommend this book for all people at whatever stage of their entrprenurial journey. Guy has outdone himself with this one.
Grateful for this book and all lessons within.
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- Simon Anderson
- 30-12-2020
great book for the startup world
anyone considering or who has started on the entrepreneur journey, this book is inspirational and will teach you important steps to increase your likelihood of success.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-09-2021
Worth a listen
Lots of great information in this one and to top it of Guy is very good to listen too.
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