How I Built This
Guy Raz | Wondery
Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds. New episodes release on Mondays and Thursdays.
Recent Episodes
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
Jul 20, 2026Aman Narang, co-founder and CEO of Toast, discusses how a frustrating wait for a dinner check at a Boston restaurant inspired him and his co-founders Steve Fredet and John Grimm to build a mobile payment app—which ultimately pivoted into a comprehensive cloud-based point-of-sale platform for restaurants. Starting from a failed consumer app in 2012, Toast evolved into a purpose-built system replacing legacy restaurant technology, growing to support nearly one in five U.S. restaurants and generating over $2 billion in annual revenue. Narang recounts the company's early struggles to gain traction, the decision to replace the entire restaurant operating system rather than just payment processing, surviving COVID-19 through rapid pivots to off-premises solutions, going public in 2021, and returning as CEO in 2024 to lead the next phase of growth.
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Jul 13, 2026Advice Line with Jeni Britton of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams (2025)
Jul 9, 2026Catalina Crunch: Krishna Kaliannan. From Homemade Keto Cocoa Puffs to Breakfast Aisle Breakthrough
Jul 6, 2026Advice Line with Ronnen Harary of Spin Master/PAW Patrol
Jul 2, 2026e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
Jun 29, 2026Advice Line with Susan Griffin-Black of EO Products
Jun 25, 2026STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
Jun 22, 2026Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
Jun 18, 2026
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