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🗓️ 23 April 2024
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Have you ever wondered how some of the biggest companies were built? On the podcastHow I Built This, host Guy Raz talks to the founders behind the world’s biggest companies and brands to learn the real stories of how they built them. How I Built This with Guy Raz is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds.
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0:00.0 | Hey there's a podcast I've really been enjoying that I want to tell you about. |
0:03.8 | It's called How I Built This, where each week host Guy Raz talks to founders behind the world's |
0:08.8 | biggest companies to learn the real stories of how they built them. |
0:11.9 | In each episode episode you'll hear |
0:13.3 | entrepreneurs share moments of doubt and failure and talk about how they were able |
0:17.2 | to overcome them on their way to success. In a recent episode they featured Mike |
0:21.2 | Sasario who founded a viral water brand by asking himself |
0:24.7 | what is the dumbest possible idea we could have but that idea to put water in a can |
0:29.6 | and call it liquid death connected with customers who don't usually buy bottled water and today the |
0:34.7 | brand is everywhere. |
0:36.2 | We're about to play a clip from this episode of how I built this. |
0:39.2 | To hear the rest of the episode and more of how I built this follow the show on the |
0:42.8 | Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:45.6 | I remember calling one of my best friends and telling him I'm like, hey, I think I have the new business |
0:56.0 | ideas, like what is it? I'm like, I want to put water in cans that look like cheap beer. |
1:02.2 | And that felt right to me because I'm like, you know, |
1:04.4 | everybody wants stuff they're not supposed to have. |
1:06.5 | You know, it's like they say, hey, if you want teens |
1:08.8 | that think something's cool, |
1:09.9 | you actually market it to people in their 20s. You know, it's like energy drinks, they kind of market |
1:15.2 | to teens, but 17-year-olds don't think monsters the coolest thing, but 12-year-olds do, you know? |
1:21.8 | Yes, oh yes. Yeah. So it was like, hey, if we actually want, you know, |
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