How I Built This with Guy Raz

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Latest Episodes

Healing through food with Danielle Walker of Against All Grain (2022)
April 18, 2024

Growing up, Danielle Walkers family often convened for big meals prepared by her Italian grandmother, Grandma Marge. Back then, Danielle enjoyed a wide variety of food without restriction; but she began experiencing severe abdominal pain in her 20s that

CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
April 15, 2024

As one of the most successful creators on YouTube,Mark Rober doesnt see what he does as a business. Instead, its a way to celebrate science in the most joyful way possible. While working as an engineer at NASA, he made his YouTube debut with a tutorial

AI is smarter than you think with Shane Legg of Google DeepMind
April 11, 2024

For decades, Shane Legg has anticipated the arrival of artificial general intelligence or AGI.In other words: an artificial agent that can do all the kinds of cognitive tasks that people can typically do, and possibly more...Now as the Chief AGI Sc

Mythical: Rhett and Link
April 08, 2024

Best friends Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal started out as comedians for Christ, and grew their partnership into one of the most successful YouTube platforms in existence. During college they created silly videos and songs for Christian events, and late

Listen Now: Business Wars
April 05, 2024

From Wondery, Business Wars is a podcast about the biggest corporate rivalries. In the newest season, host David Brown tracks the power struggles and philosophical differences within OpenAI that culminated in Sam Altmans shocking firing, the chaos that f

Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne
April 04, 2024

Best-selling author and economics professor Rene Mauborgne thinks that too many entrepreneurs focus on the wrong thingsconsumed with making their companies outperform one another as they fight for a greater share of a crowded market space.But what if e

Whole30: Melissa Urban
April 01, 2024

Whole30 began as a dietary experiment: For 30 days, Melissa Urban went without grains, dairy, legumes, alcohol and added sugar. She was trying to address several health problems, and the results were so extraordinary that she decided to share the diet wit

“Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto
March 28, 2024

The popular science fiction idea of beaming someone instantly to another location was part of David Nussbaums inspiration to design a holoportation box. His company, Proto, invented a device the size of a telephone booth that projects a hologram-type i

MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
March 25, 2024

Isaac Larian moved from Iran to Los Angeles at age 17 with just a few hundred dollars, and went on to build one of the biggest toy companies in the world. Along the way, he took on Barbie with a wildly successful line of punky dolls called Bratz — a succe

Achieving greater things with Adam Grant
March 21, 2024

Growth is not about the genius you possessits about the character you develop.Thats what organizational psychologist and podcast host Adam Grant believes, and he offers a new framework on how we can elevate ourselves and others in his latest book,