Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
4.7 • 31.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs. Plus, how AI integrations with glasses are helping us see the world in a whole new way.
First we meet Kimber in Utah, who wants to take her chewable toothpaste gummies mainstream. Then Brian in California, who’s wondering how to vet franchisees for his light therapy studios. And Tanner in Tennessee, who needs help building a team he can trust to scale his country club-inspired lifestyle brand.
Thank you to the founders of Pearl Pop, Salt and Light Wellness, and Cowboy Country Club for being a part of our show.
If you’d like to be featured on a future Advice Line episode, leave us a one-minute message that tells us about your business and a specific question you’d like answered. Send a voice memo to hibt@id.wondery.com or call 1-800-433-1298.
And be sure to listen to Warby Parker’s founding story as told by Neil and his co-founder Dave on the show in 2016.
This episode was produced by Sam Paulson with music by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by John Isabella. Our audio engineer was Cena Loffredo.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to how I built this early and ad-free right now. |
| 0:05.7 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:10.6 | 2026 is the year you launch your business and become the boss you're meant to be. |
| 0:16.7 | Do you have that idea you just can't shake? |
| 0:19.5 | The difference between a dream and a reality is simply taking action. |
| 0:23.8 | My recommendation? |
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| 1:24.6 | Most businesses only use 20% of their data. That's like reading a book with most |
| 1:30.9 | of the pages torn out. How can you get the full story? And where's the other 80% of that data? |
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| 1:51.6 | Because when you know more, you grow more. |
| 1:54.8 | Visit HubSpot.com to get started. |
| 2:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. |
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