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How I Built This
The Unexpected Paths to Success From the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
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How I Built This will offer invaluable insight, direction and advice to entrepreneurs at every point on their entrepreneurial path.
How I Built This will offer invaluable insight, direction and advice to entrepreneurs at every point on their entrepreneurial path.
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Based on the number one business-rated podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, is a manual for success offering priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful business.
Award-winning journalist Guy Raz has interviewed more than 200 entrepreneurs from across the globe to uncover the amazing true stories behind their success. In How I Built This, Guy Raz shares lessons for every entrepreneur's journey: from the early days of formulating your idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, to finally paying yourself a real salary.
For anyone who has ever wondered how the best became the best—and wants to join them—How I Built This offers a step-by-step guide as to every turn, success, setback and challenge that entrepreneurs face, and equips every would-be entrepreneur with the map and compass for navigating the unexpected path to success. This is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of starting their own business or wondered how trailblazing entrepreneurs made their own dreams a reality.
Along the way, readers will learn how:
- The founders of Airbnb bootstrapped long enough to turn their business into a success.
- James Dyson learnt from his mistakes to protect what he had built.
- Reed Hastings developed the unique company culture at Netflix.
- Five Guys burger chain harnessed the power of word of mouth.
- What Tim Brown's Allbirds trainers in New Zealand can teach us about the value of the mantra: iterate, iterate, iterate.
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How I Built This by Guy Raz receives widespread acclaim for its inspiring storytelling and practical insights into entrepreneurship. Reviewers praise Raz for his infectious energy, engaging narrative, and ability to distil valuable lessons from the journeys of successful entrepreneurs. The book is often described as a must-read for aspiring business owners, offering both a motivational boost and a comprehensive guide to navigating the challenges and triumphs of building a successful company.
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ISBN: 9781529026290
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 September 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 35.0mm
Width: 161.0mm
Height: 242.0mm
Weight: 526g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Guy Raz is the creator, editorial director, and host of three podcasts for NPR, including How I Built This, TED Radio Hour, and the children's program Wow in the World, which are heard by more than 15 million people every month all over the world. Guy has also served as a Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University and taught journalism at Georgetown and George Washington Universities. He is the father of two boys and recently relocated from Washington DC to Berkeley, California.
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