HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Lily Hevesh never could have imagined that the videos of domino tricks she started posting for fun at 10 years old would eventually evolve into a thriving business.

Fast forward to today and Lily’s YouTube channel, Hevesh5, has almost 4 million subscribers. Her videos, which showcase the toppling of countless intricately designed domino setups, have more than a billion views and counting...

This week on How I Built This Lab, Lily recalls her path to becoming one of the best-known domino artists in the world. Plus, more on Lily’s recent expansion beyond digital creation — launching her own line of dominoes and starting her own agency to take on large-scale domino projects. Also, Lily explains why she will prioritize her craft over business objectives as she looks to the future.

This episode was produced by Sam Paulson and edited by John Isabella, with music by Sam Paulson and Ramtin Arablouei. Our audio engineer was Neal Rauch.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.2	What if the greatest tragedy of your life was just covered up?
0:12.5	I have never seen anything like that before or after.
0:15.7	This is the story of the worst marine-on-marine friendly fire in modern history.
0:20.0	A story kept from the public.
0:21.9	It's like, what did y'all have to hide?
0:24.6	Listen to NPR's embedded podcast in its latest series, Taking Cover.
0:54.6	So I was adopted from China when I was one and grew up in New Hampshire.
1:14.0	I have a brother, a sister, and my parents, we all lived in one place.
1:18.9	It was kind of a rural area, not really much going on.
1:23.6	There was one small pizza shop in the whole town.
1:29.2	I was a kid that just really loved building things.
1:32.3	I loved using my hands and creating whatever I could, whether it was with Legos or Tickered
1:38.8	Toys or just crafting things out of paper and gluing stuff together.
1:43.0	I was really into just being creative and it really spurred from there.
1:50.0	So when you were a kid, you build elaborate Lego villages?
1:53.8	Did you ever do Lincoln logs?
1:56.0	Is that so?
1:57.0	I did all of that.
1:58.8	I have the large Lego duplos when I was super young and then graduated to the smaller
2:04.4	Legos.
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