How I Built This

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 to every turn, success, setback, and challenge that entrepreneurs face. It 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 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.
• The 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.