How I Built This with Guy Raz

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diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)

Back in the early days of ecommerce, Marc Lore took a classic retail loss leader–diapers– and turned it into a DTC giant– Diapers.com. It did so well that it attracted the attention of Amazon, which slashed prices on its own diapers until Marc was forced to sell them his business ...  Show more

Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie (June 2025)

Serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore — founder of brands like Beauty Pie and Soap & Glory — joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage founders managing uncertainty and risk. Today, we meet Victor in Fort Worth, the co-founder of a Mexican-styl ...  Show more

Vital Farms: Matt O’Hayer. How a serial entrepreneur re-branded the egg

For decades, a dozen eggs was just… a dozen eggs.No story. No real branding. No reason to care who produced them.Then Matt O’Hayer came along and asked a question almost nobody in America was asking: what if store-bought eggs could be different? What if they tasted better, looked ...  Show more

Advice Line: What’s Your Value?

In today’s special episode, Guy and four former show guests talk with callers about how they can prove the value of their products—and themselves.First, Meagan from Vermont questions whether an experiential pop-up concept for her reusable gift wrap and bags is worth the effort. T ...  Show more

Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge

Aaron Krause did not set out to reinvent the kitchen sponge. He was a car detailer, building buffing pads and the machines that made them. To clean his greasy hands, he made a makeshift hand scrubber out of extra-rough foam, and it worked so well he decided to sell it. But nobody ...  Show more