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How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz interviews Dr. Squatch founder Jack Haldrup about turning a personal product discovery into a consumer brand. The story follows his consulting career, a small launch alongside paid work, family-run fulfillment, subscription-box sampling, a trademark-driven rebrand, the shift from search ads to Facebook, a difficult partner buyout and a cash squeeze. A humorous paid video becomes an acquisition engine, followed by outside investment, rapid hiring, product expansion, a majority sale, CEO succession and the move into retail. The close weighs execution against timing and luck. Main theme: entrepreneurship, branding, customer acquisition, cash management and founder succession. His psoriasis and personal product experience are origin-story context, not evidence that soap treats a condition. The speakers' claims about natural products, processing and skin benefits are not independently verified health conclusions; the raw-milk analogy is not nutrition advice or a recommendation to drink unpasteurized milk. No soap-making recipe or chemical-handling procedure is provided here. The host's million-times comparison between launch spending and a reported acquisition value is not an investor return or the founder's personal proceeds. Revenue, margins, customer acquisition costs, valuations, ownership, deal terms, video views and retailer mix are attributed historical recollections, not audited or current performance. In the 2019 sales discussion, the guest gives roughly $20-23 million and the host later says $25 million; no exact reconciliation is invented. Trademark and buyout stories are one participant's account, not legal findings or reusable contract advice. Facebook-era ad economics and the pandemic's commercial tailwinds do not predict today's results. Stress, exhaustion and family priorities are personal experiences, not diagnoses or a claim that overwork is necessary. FULL COVERAGE: entire downloaded publisher RSS audio, 77 sequential chunks; sparse chunk58 checked in two halves. Actual audio76:58 versus RSS80:13. This is the publisher-audio edition only, not a claim of YouTube-cut or timestamp equivalence. Ads/promotions heard: NPR's Machine Gods and Phoebe Judge's Criminal live tour. The Dr. Squatch commercial is a historical creative example within the interview, not separately identified as a current sponsor read. Closing promotions: following How I Built This and its new YouTube channel. Original YouTube thumbnail: How I Built This, "How a Soap Side Hustle Became a $1.5 Billion Business" (November 10, 2026), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXFGVi0L9mw. The 63:18 video is a different cut of the same Jack Haldrup conversation. These notes cover the 76:58 publisher audio, not the YouTube cut; title, date and duration here refer to that audio edition. Informational only, not personalized financial, legal or medical advice.

Figuring Out with Raj Shamani

Raj Shamani with Gita Gopinath (former IMF Chief Economist, Harvard professor) on how money is created, central banks and inflation, why the US can borrow $38 trillion, dollar dominance and the yuan, tariffs and China's rerouting, the 'great gamble' of AI plus geopolitics, why she expects an AI correction, the IMF's Pakistan lending logic, global debt risk, and her advice to young people on learning in the AI age. FULL COVERAGE: notes span the entire episode (full audio transcribed, ~1:41:07). Sponsor: ASUS ExpertBook (read in intro). All economic claims, statistics and forecasts are the guest's views as of November 2026, attributed to her; nothing here is financial or investment advice.

The Prakhar Gupta Xperience

Prakhar Gupta fields questions from LSE students on walking away from chartered accountancy to Columbia and podcasting, why intent (not talent) is India's missing link, scarcity psychology and crab-well thinking, a connected reading of Iran, BRICS, Ukraine's drone war, rare earths and H1B backlash, why he welcomes reverse brain drain, courage as the last alpha in the AI age, Goodhart's law in Indian education, the case against glorifying jugaad and the 'spirit of Mumbai,' and his definition of spirituality. FULL COVERAGE: notes span the entire episode (full ~1:00:39 audio transcribed, including audience Q&A). Sponsor: none stated in the episode. Geopolitical and economic readings are the host's personal opinions attributed to him; public figures referenced (Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Aravind Srinivas, Dipinder Goyal, Samay Raina and others) are discussed as the speaker's views as of November 2026. Nothing here is political, financial or career advice.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz revisits an archive conversation with Michael Dell, explicitly labeled2018 in the publisher title and reissued November5,2026. Dell describes early selling experiments, curiosity about computers, upgrade kits built around a customer's needs and the transition from a dorm-room business to a computer manufacturer. A customer visit reveals a product opportunity; a responsive supply chain, direct relationships and on-site service help the business compete. The conversation also covers capital needs, compliance problems, failed engineering bets, customer listening and his return to the CEO role. Main theme: entrepreneurship, business models, operations and learning from customers. AI appears in a new sponsor read and a brief closing update, not as the main interview theme. The closing comment about US opportunity is a personal reflection, not a political-policy discussion. The interview's historical revenue, prices, market share, age records and timelines are speaker or host recollections, not current company results or independently audited facts. The original interview date is not inferred beyond the publisher's2018 label; the publication-date field records this2026 reissue. New wrapping material does not make it a new interview, and future dedupe must include the original2018 edition. The catalog contains a separate Tim Ferriss interview with Dell, not this conversation. Newspaper targeting through public records is described as a historical anecdote, not a recommendation to collect personal data or ignore present privacy and marketing rules. A regulatory warning led to legal advice, testing and an application; the account is not permission to disregard a regulator or a current FCC compliance guide. Leaving college is Dell's personal decision under an agreed fallback, not advice that dropping out causes success. Hardware modifications are historical context, not a procedure or safety guide. Intensive work and marriage preferences are personal choices, not universal success requirements. FULL COVERAGE: entire downloaded publisher RSS audio in45 sequential chunks, sparse chunks1,24,36,44 checked in halves. Actual44:41 versus RSS46:48. Publisher-audio edition only; no claim of equivalent YouTube content or timestamps. Ads/promotions heard: Anthropic/Claude, NPR's Machine Gods and Phoebe Judge's Criminal live tour. The host's closing philanthropy and AI-infrastructure update belongs to the reissue wrapper, not the2018 interview. Verified publisher show artwork is used because this RSS item has no separate episode image. Informational only, not personalized financial or legal advice. PREPUBLICATION: Check existing published and unpublished editions, including original/reissue aliases, before creating or publishing this conversation again. Confirm the chosen cover and guest portrait against the intended edition. A generic show cover or a guest photo is not verified main-video artwork. Figures, roles and opinions describe the historical interview. Product, health, legal and financial claims are not independent conclusions.

Think School: Indian Business Podcast

Think School's Ganeshprasad with Girish Lakhotiya (Founder, Prachay Capital) on why Indian investors are stuck between a falling equity market and inflation-losing FDs, how bonds and the CAMEL/SGS frameworks work, why 'below AA is junk' is a myth, how Prachay's Bondsmart model retains 15-20% skin in the game, what happens in defaults (ILFS, DHFL recoveries), and when founders should raise via bonds instead of banks. FULL COVERAGE: notes span the entire episode (full audio transcribed, 0:00 to ~49:47 of 49:47). Sponsor: Odoo; the guest's own platform Bondsmart is discussed in the episode. All return figures, market statistics, recovery percentages and regulatory claims are the speakers' account as of November 2026, attributed to them, not independently verified; nothing here is financial or investment advice.