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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.

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.

Figuring Out with Raj Shamani

Sam Altman sits with Raj Shamani for a conversation that is less about AI products and more about how his mind works: the bets, the insecurities, the culture, and the costs. FULL COVERAGE: notes span the entire episode (transcript 0:03 to 1:07:42 of 1:08:00). Sponsor: Levi's is named as the episode's styling partner in the intro; the mushroom drink at the end is a host gift moment, not a stated sponsorship. Everything Altman says about markets, user numbers, OpenAI and other people is his claim as spoken on November 3, 2026; nothing here is business, investment or life advice. He says India is OpenAI's biggest market in the world by users, bigger than the US, and links India's optimism about AI to fast-growing economies that need products and services. He walks through the one insight he has reapplied his whole career - scale produces surprising superlinear returns - and how seeing neural networks improve with scale, years before scaling laws existed, led to starting OpenAI in 2015 when it was an extremely low-status thing to do. He takes Raj inside the August 2022 decision to bet the company on compute after GPT-4 finished training, months before the world saw it, and admits he would not have had the conviction if the model had been even a little less smart. He confirms he launched ChatGPT against the mood of his own leadership team, armed with two YC lessons: be embarrassed by your first version, and a small number of people who love the product beats a crowd that merely likes it (the internal prototype's retention was around 5%, but those users loved it). On power, he names two ways this goes wrong - loss of control to far more capable systems, or one actor concentrating too much power - and argues for pluralism: many competing AI efforts. He calls not taking equity in OpenAI a mistake in hindsight because it confused people about his motives, describes the culture that made roughly 700 employees threaten to resign when he was fired, explains why co-founders and colleagues left to build their own efforts (when stakes feel existential, people only trust themselves), and closes with what he wants to build next: AI that discovers new science, and why he is comfortable with his kids growing up in the world he is helping create.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz and Calendly founder Tope Awotona take four small-business calls: Newlane on margins and growth for a folding helmet, Playfield on keeping a pet-accessories brand running during a founder's leave, The Nail Room on expansion and family priorities, and ISlide on focus across sales channels. An opening Calendly update covers product change and building an initial software product; the close returns to serving a customer rather than falling in love with a product. Main theme: entrepreneurship, customer acquisition, operations, delegation and expansion decisions. AI is an opening product-business update and brief closing sales-tool example, not the main theme of the four calls. Parenting, pregnancy and personal identity are context for operating choices, not medical or mental-health instruction. Generalizations about children or parents are personal remarks, not established facts. Helmet safety certifications, uniqueness, prices, salon nail-health claims, business revenue, margins, growth and product capabilities are attributed claims, not independently verified recommendations or current terms. No helmet is recommended as safe on the strength of this conversation, and no manicure treatment protocol is provided. Possible childcare, alcohol or other service additions are brainstorming, not a reviewed operating plan; licensing, safety, insurance and customer needs require separate checks. The hosts' views on focus differ in emphasis: Tope favors concentrating effort on stronger channels while Guy also sees value in a broad channel mix with larger orders. Neither position is presented as a guaranteed answer. Founder leave and growth remain each owner's choices; no promise of success or instruction to work through childbirth is adopted. The ending extract about personal savings, retirement accounts and high-interest borrowing is a historical founding story, not financing advice. Source names are kept to the verified business names and callers' given names where transcription of surnames is uncertain. FULL COVERAGE: entire downloaded publisher RSS audio in 58 sequential chunks; sparse chunks 34,45,57 checked in halves. Actual57:41 versus RSS60:48. Publisher-audio edition only, not a claim of equivalent YouTube content or timestamps. Ads/promotions heard: Anthropic/Claude, NPR's Machine Gods and Phoebe Judge's Criminal live tour. Own-show promotions: the original Calendly interview and Guy Raz's newsletter/Substack. The RSS notes call this the final Advice Line episode; this was not separately announced in the downloaded closing audio. Verified publisher show artwork is retained because the item has no separate episode image. Informational only, not personalized financial, legal or medical 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.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Notes cover the complete publisher audio (Megaphone MP3, 1:09:22 actual), transcribed in 7 contiguous 10-minute chunks including sponsor reads. No YouTube cut was used or claimed. Transcription note: the transcript renders the brand as 'Figs'; quote texts are verbatim. Sponsors and promotions: ["Anthropic / Claude (presenting sponsor) - claude.ai/hibt", "American Express Corporate - go.amex/amexcorporate", "Show promo: Criminal live tour with Phoebe Judge - thisiscriminal.com/live", "Guy Raz newsletter plug - guyraz.com / Substack", "Outro note: FIGS' red-carpet debut - Noah Wyle wore a custom midnight-blue FIGS tuxedo at the Emmy Awards"] 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.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Insomnia Cookies founder Seth Berkowitz joins Guy Raz for three small-business calls. Kahindo is rebuilding a fashion brand after losing wholesale accounts; Tara wants to introduce customers to Sauna Societé hats; Carol is deciding how Desden should market collegiate bags when a family member buys for a student. The opening update covers Insomnia's expansion ambitions, company-operated stores, control over product quality and the idea that a brand must earn growth through customer demand. Main theme: entrepreneurship, customer acquisition, product focus, experiential selling and channel decisions. Sauna, hair-protection, heat-tolerance and health-benefit claims are secondary product context in one call, not medical advice or independently established facts. No claim that a hat makes prolonged heat exposure safe is adopted. The caller's15-20minute remark is not a recommended duration or a treatment protocol; do not infer safety from comfort or from this summary. Sauna and cold-plunge anecdotes are not health recommendations. The episode does not establish venue policies or bag acceptance; the caller's historical stadium-policy account is not a current rule. Store counts, growth plans, revenues, margins, licenses, customer claims and price examples are attributed, dated statements, not checked current figures. The hosts' suggestions about partnerships, samples, QR codes, promotions and discounts are experiments, not guaranteed results; privacy, contest rules, licensing, margins and operations need separate checks before execution. Insomnia's company-operated model is Seth's choice, not proof that franchising is wrong for everyone. FULL COVERAGE: all downloaded publisher audio reviewed in41sequential chunks; the final3.5second chunk was also checked in halves (closing words, then no speech). Actual40:04rounded from2403.500seconds versus RSS43:48. Publisher-audio edition only, not a claim about unverified YouTube content or timestamps. RSS and Apple date isOct23,2026; some third-party transcript indexes displayOct22, not used as the source date. Ads/promotions heard: NPR's Machine Gods. Own-show promotions: the original2024Insomnia interview, Advice Line submissions and Guy Raz's newsletter/Substack. Closing archive extract recounts the founder's losses, staff cuts and18months without pay; it is a historical hardship story, not an instruction to stop paying oneself. The item has no separate episode image, so verified show artwork is retained. Informational only, not personalized business, financial, legal or medical advice. Guest portrait is still unresolved; this spec must not be published until that gap is filled. 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.

The Think Media Podcast

Sean Cannell interviews Jenny Hansen Lane, a former wedding photographer and mother of three who teaches Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Lane says her overall business is reaching consistent $100,000 months; the host describes more than $2 million in total revenue. Those are reported business results, not verified profit figures or typical earnings. They discuss simple webcam production, intent-based videos, documenting an unfinished journey, a $33 first-book offer, audience feedback, hopeful rather than fear-based marketing, paid traffic, and marketing books. Lane also connects her approach to faith, authenticity and an abundance mindset. Notes are based on the publisher's full audio edition. FULL COVERAGE: these notes cover the complete publisher audio from start to finish. The RSS description says this episode has no outside sponsor; the audio promotes Think Media's own viralvideocoach.com/VRA Elite and the One Video Away workshop at myytplan.com. Claims and opinions belong to the speakers. Informational only, not business, financial, legal or publishing-policy advice.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Notes cover the complete publisher audio (Megaphone MP3, 1:06:14 actual), transcribed in 7 contiguous 10-minute chunks including sponsor reads. No YouTube cut was used or claimed. Transcription note: speech-to-text often renders 'Loren' as 'Lauren'; quote texts are verbatim from the transcript. Sponsors and promotions: ["Anthropic / Claude (presenting sponsor) - claude.ai/hibt", "American Express Corporate (corporate cashback cards) - go.amex/amexcorporate", "Guy Raz newsletter plug - guyraz.com / Substack"] 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.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Tara Bosch joins Guy Raz for three founder calls: XO Marshmallows on moving from direct sales into grocery, Vivi's Vacation on communicating the reason to choose its swimwear, and Romanticize Collective on whether to refine or change its experience-box subscription. An opening update covers Snackish and starting again after SmartSweets. Main theme: entrepreneurship, channel expansion, manufacturing, brand positioning, customer research and early product-market fit. Nutrition, sugar substitutes, digestion, diabetes and inflammation appear as secondary product-development discussion, not the main topic. Guy's allulose claims, the caller's ingredient and shelf-life statements, and Tara's historical formulation complaint are attributed statements, not verified health conclusions, food-safety guidance or dietary recommendations. No candy or chip is recommended as safe for daily consumption or for a medical condition. Ingredients, retailer exclusions, health claims, production changes and shelf-life extensions require qualified review and current validation; this episode is not a recipe, treatment protocol or regulatory approval. The hosts' suggestions are business hypotheses, not guaranteed outcomes. Revenues, margins, acquisition values, customer counts, retailer behavior and plans are dated, attributed claims rather than checked current facts. The experience-box discussion concerns a business model, not mental-health treatment or personal-development instruction. Brief AI comments and sponsor reads are incidental rather than an AI main theme. FULL COVERAGE: entire downloaded publisher audio reviewed in53sequential chunks, including final52checked in halves. Actual52:25 versus RSS47:48, with additional ad blocks in this edition; no missing-content or video-equivalence claim. Untimed sections avoid transferring source timestamps across editions. Ads/promotions heard: Upwork, Anthropic/Claude, Framer, Stripe Atlas/Treasury, State Street/SPY, Toast, NPR's Machine Gods, American Express Corporate, Taboola's Realize advertising platform (heard with inconsistent naming in ASR), Philadelphia cream cheese, Canva and Firefox/Mozilla. Promotions for the earlier SmartSweets interview and Guy Raz's newsletter/Substack are also included. Ad prices, credits, offers and product capabilities are not validated current terms. Closing extract from the earlier interview describes Tara's allegation about a manufacturer; it is not independently adjudicated or broadened here. Verified publisher show art retained; guest photo is captioned Tara Bosch, courtesy Snackish, in Canadian Grocer and was visually inspected. Informational only, not personalized financial, legal, medical or nutrition 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.

The Knowledge Project

Shane Parrish talks with real-estate broker Ryan Serhant about follow-up, selling an outcome rather than a product, building competence and turning attention into a business. These notes cover selected sales and business passages from the first roughly 50,000 characters of the public YouTube auto-captions. The ending is not covered, sponsor reads and personal client anecdotes are omitted, and the captions may contain errors. These are Serhant's experiences, not promises of financial results.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

2023 archive reissue: interview recorded spring 2023; Guy's intro and outro are new, with a post-acquisition update. Title carries (2023). Sponsors and promotions: [{"brand": "Anthropic (Claude)", "type": "presenting sponsor, top of show", "copy": "Guy's first-person 'hard questions' read; Anthropic as public benefit corporation; his own question about what separates builders when everyone has AI tools. CTA: claude.ai/hibt."}, {"brand": "American Express (Amex Corporate)", "type": "top of show", "copy": "One intelligent platform for company spending with smart expense management; 'built to simplify, designed to scale.' CTA: go.amex/amexcorporate (terms apply)."}, {"brand": "Criminal (Phoebe Judge live tour)", "type": "mid-roll promo", "copy": "Phoebe Judge announces a live tour of personal stories about secrets and forgiveness. CTA: thisiscriminal.com/live."}] ["Sony Pictures Entertainment acquisition and the Leagues' sale of their stakes come from Guy's 2026 outro update - attribute to the show's epilogue, keep time-stamped; Metro Private Cinema opened 'last year' relative to the 2026 reissue.", "Industry figures ($11B 2019 US box office, 80% 2020 plunge) are Guy's narration about the period.", "The franchise lawsuit is recounted by the parties themselves (they sued first, trademark claims, countersuit to unwind) - keep as their account, no independent legal conclusions; the harassment-allegations segment is Tim's own acknowledgment of company failures.", "Voicemail PSA views (10-12M) are Tim's estimate ('I don't know').", "ASR name notes: 'Karrie' also rendered 'Carrie' (normalized to Karrie per title); 'Tehachapi Theater' in Guy's narration = Tejon Theater; 'Cisco' food purveyor = Sysco. Quotes chosen to avoid corrupted tokens."] 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.

Modern Wisdom

Spencer Greenberg joins Chris Williamson to discuss the recurring strategies behind self-help, the difference between intrinsic and instrumental values, habit reflection and fear. They also examine worry, productivity and activities people are glad they did. The summary attributes study results and self-improvement claims to Greenberg and does not offer mental-health treatment advice.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz and Thrive Market co-founder Nick Green take three founder calls: Blackstrad Concert Attire on balancing product quality and speed, Peak State Coffee on growth without losing its values, and Voice Back on awareness for an assistive communication app. The opening update covers recurring grocery orders, search data and AI-assisted shopping, followed by brief personal walking and reading anecdotes. Main theme: entrepreneurship, focus, scalability, mission, financing and customer acquisition. AI grocery features, mushroom and adaptogen claims, medical diagnoses, disability and personal mental-health comments are context or secondary discussion, not the main purpose of the calls. The app call concerns a paid product, retention, pricing and relevant distribution, not disease treatment or clinical guidance. No health benefit, diagnosis, prognosis, voice-cloning accuracy, app suitability or patient outcome is independently established. The hosts' simplified ALS remarks are not adopted as a prognosis; do not use them to set care, pricing or personal expectations. No coffee, supplement or health routine is recommended. Voice cloning and patient testimonials require proper consent, privacy protection and appropriate professional review; no patient-targeting list or outreach action is created by these notes. Medical app claims and current pricing must be checked separately. The caller's claims about advisers, downloads, testimonials and marginal costs remain attributed. The app name is kept as Voice Back per the publisher description and closing audio, not the erroneous Voiceitt ASR in its introduction. Funding, equity-for-promotion, debt, influencer partnerships and discounts are discussed as possible options, not legal or investment instructions. Equity involves dilution; debt involves repayment and loss risk. Customer research and any marketing must respect consent, platform rules, health-data sensitivities and disclosure requirements. Reported revenues, memberships, conversion figures, goals and prices are historical episode statements, not checked current facts. FULL COVERAGE: all48:58downloaded publisher audio reviewed in49sequential chunks, none below700characters. RSS45:02; the downloaded ad-supported edition differs in duration. No claim of video equivalence or gap content. Ads/promotions heard: Stripe Atlas/Treasury, Anthropic/Claude, Upwork, Framer, NPR's Machine Gods, State Street/SPY, American Express Corporate and Toast. Own-show promotions: the original Thrive Market interview and Guy Raz's newsletter/Substack. Closing archive clip describes difficulties with an outsourced technology build; it is a historical account, not a recommendation to alter a current website. Verified show artwork retained; the Montgomery Summit page labels the guest photo Nick Green, and actual pixels were inspected. Informational only, not personalized financial, legal or medical 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.

My First Million

My First Million talks with marketer and Angel Studios co-founder Jeff Harmon about product-led campaigns, overlooked distribution channels and testing many video variations. Harmon describes the Orabrush and Poo-Pourri campaigns and a Kevin James promotion. These notes cover selected marketing passages from roughly 49,700 characters of the YouTube auto-captions, not a complete account of the 63-minute conversation. The ending and AI discussion are not covered. Captions may contain errors, and campaign results are the speakers' claims rather than independently audited figures.

Shopify Masters

A Shopify Masters conversation with Kent Yoshimura and his co-founder Ryan, who built the Neuro brand of caffeine and L-theanine gum from a dorm-room supplement experiment into a brand sold at Walmart, Whole Foods and Costco. They cover starting a product to solve their own problem, the choice of simple ingredients, why timing and shelf placement mattered in retail, and the lawsuit the episode title refers to. Sponsor: Shopify, named in the show's trial message. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this note covers the opening, a middle section on retail partners such as Costco and Walmart, and parts of the description, and does not cover every part of the roughly 31 minute episode. All business claims are the founders' own account and are not independently checked. This is a summary of their views, not business, legal or health advice.

The Think Media Podcast

Sean Cannell interviews Marisa Murgatroyd, founder of Live Your Message and creator of The Experience Formula, about five reasons online courses and programs fail. Murgatroyd discusses choosing a niche that is neither too broad nor too small, packaging a course as a complete offer, selling a paper-plane version before building the full product, orchestrating a campaign instead of isolated marketing tactics, and keeping new students in a winning loop immediately after the sale. She cites student revenue, industry-size and touchpoint figures as reported claims; they are not independently verified results or typical outcomes. Cannell also describes his own reported course revenue and Think Media programs, and both promote free and paid resources. Notes based on the publisher's full audio edition. FULL COVERAGE: complete publisher audio from start to finish. The RSS says the episode is not sponsored and notes possible affiliate links; the audio promotes Think Media's viralvideocoach.com strategy calls and VRA Elite, Murgatroyd's ideatoincome.tips and smartcourseideas.com resources, and an Epidemic Sounds trial link. Speaker opinions and examples are attributed. Informational only, not business, financial or marketing advice.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Publisher audio edition reviewed; no claim of equivalence to an unverified video cut. Sponsors and promotions: Anthropic / Claude (presenting, claude.ai/hibt), Amex Corporate (go.amex/amexcorporate). 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.

Shopify Masters

A Shopify Masters conversation hosted by Serena Smith with Bette Bentley, founder of Skimpies, a plastic-free, organic cotton liner for leggings and underwear. Bentley moved from comedy writing and independent film to product making. She talks about creating a new product category, selling live on TikTok for months, the moment that led her to commit to the company, and how she thinks about building community. Sponsor: Shopify, named in the show's trial message. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this note covers the opening, a middle section about her health scare and her decision to go all in, and the close, and does not cover every part of the roughly 39 minute episode. Sales figures and valuations are her own account and are not independently checked. This is a summary of her views, not business or health advice.

The Think Media Podcast

Sean Cannell interviews Marisa Murgatroyd, founder of Live Your Message and creator of The Experience Formula, about how online education is shifting away from static information courses toward guided programs. Murgatroyd says the market is splitting between mass-market AI-supported content platforms and human-led offers that help people implement, receive feedback and reach a result. She discusses the human-made premium, the difference between information and lived knowledge, her transformation fork, student accountability, starting without a large following, and writing a specific product mission statement. She and Cannell cite AI-content preference, industry revenue, student revenue, completion and goal-achievement figures as reported claims; they are not independently verified or typical results. Notes based on the publisher's full audio edition. FULL COVERAGE: complete publisher audio from start to finish, with the sparse final chunk checked by an extra audio probe. The RSS says this episode is not sponsored and notes possible affiliate links; audio promotes Think Media's viralvideocoach.com strategy calls and VRA Elite, Murgatroyd's smartcourseideas.com and ideatoincome.tips resources, and an Epidemic Sounds trial link. Speaker opinions are attributed. Informational only, not business, financial or marketing advice.

How I Built This with Guy Raz

2021 archive reissue: interview first aired January 2021; new Guy intro/outro. Intro carries an explicit-language advisory (unbleeped profanity in the interview). Outro update: Jeffrey still on the board, Alan retired in Vermont. Sponsors and promotions: [{"brand": "Anthropic (Claude)", "type": "presenting sponsor, top of show", "copy": "Guy's first-person 'hard questions' read; Anthropic as public benefit corporation; his own question about what separates builders when everyone has AI tools. CTA: claude.ai/hibt."}, {"brand": "American Express (Amex Corporate)", "type": "top of show", "copy": "One intelligent platform connecting cards, expenses and payments; 'built to simplify, designed to scale.' CTA: go.amex/amexcorporate (terms apply)."}, {"brand": "Criminal (Phoebe Judge live tour)", "type": "mid-roll promo", "copy": "Phoebe Judge announces a live tour of personal stories about secrets and forgiveness. CTA: thisiscriminal.com/live."}] ["Unilever acquisition price is 'reported' - Guy's intro says $600-700M, later 'reportedly $700 million'; keep attributed as reported, not confirmed.", "All revenue figures ($1M 1989, $7M 1990, >$8M 1994, $10-12M to ~$50M, ~$150M at Jeffrey's exit) are speaker recollections or Guy's narration - time-stamp, not current claims.", "Greenpeace board membership, protest arrests, employee-ownership percentages and the Albertson's strike donation are the founders' own accounts.", "'Top 10 largest craft breweries' is Alan's claim about Magic Hat's peak.", "ASR name notes: 'Gardener's Supply' also rendered 'Gardens for All'; 'Cobalt' = COBOL; 'Peter Hollander' = Peter Hollender; 'Jeff' vs 'Jeffrey' varies. Quotes chosen to avoid corrupted tokens; interview contains unbleeped profanity (advisory in intro) - no profane quotes selected."] 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.