Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Five years before he became a massively successful content creator, Dhar Mann was nearly broke and living in a studio apartment. It’s the kind of story he might tell in one of his videos: bite-sized, live-action morality tales that have earned 60 billion views across YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms. Raised in an Indian Sikh family, Dhar had a strong entrepreneurial drive, which led to early business success, but also a spectacular downfall when he got pulled into a Ponzi scheme. A few years after losing nearly everything, he began making short, dramatic videos that conveyed life lessons. Nobody watched at first and critics called them cheesy, but today, Dhar has a huge production studio in Burbank, where dozens of employees make content for tens of millions of subscribers.

This episode was produced by Alex Cheng and Casey Herman, with music by Ramtin Arablouei.

Edited by Neva Grant, with research help from Katherine Sypher.

You can follow HIBT on X & Instagram, and email us at [email protected].

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Wundere Plus subscribers can listen to how I built this early and ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	We're driven by the search for better, but when it comes to hiring the best way to search
0:15.0	for a candidate isn't to search at all.
0:17.9	Don't search match with indeed.
0:20.9	75% of employers claim, indeed, delivers the highest quality matches
0:26.0	compared to other online job sites.
0:29.0	One of the things we love about Indeed is that it makes hiring all in one place so easy because
0:35.9	indeed is always learning from our preferences so the more we use it the better it gets
0:42.0	and listeners of this show will get a 100-pound sponsored job credit to get your jobs more
0:48.6	of visibility at indeed.com slash how I built. Again, that's indeed. Indeed. You need indeed.
1:08.0	How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I be the bills? How do I pay the bills? How do I pay the bills?
1:10.0	I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer, the questions, the fears, the need to know.
1:17.0	How do I know? Because I'm living with cancer too.
1:22.0	That's why I joined the Macmillan online community and we can help people
1:26.6	like you whatever you need to ask. To join us, search Macillan online community.
1:32.8	Some stories were never meant to be heard.
1:37.8	Beneath the visible world of parliaments, politicians and civil servants lies an invisible state
1:46.2	filled with secret operatives playing to very different rules.
1:53.0	From Wundry, I'm Indravama and this is the Spy Who.
1:57.0	This month we open the file on Noir Anayat Khan, the Spy Who wouldn't lie.
2:04.0	When Germany invades France, Noor and her family are forced to flee to Britain.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Guy Raz | Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Guy Raz | Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.