How I Built This with Guy Raz is hosted by Guy Raz and is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. It publishes two to three times a week (about 24 episodes in the last 90 days, as of October 2026), and episodes usually run about 52 minutes.
The show's description says Guy Raz interviews "the world's best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands," with founders sharing moments of doubt and failure on the way to success. The feed holds 879 episodes and goes back to September 2016.
Recent titles show two kinds of episode: full founder stories (for example Sweet Loren's, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, and a 10-year retrospective) and "Advice Line" episodes with founders such as Seth Berkowitz of Insomnia Cookies, Tara Bosch of SmartSweets and Nick Green of Thrive Market. Older episodes also appear in the feed, so the dates are worth checking.
That makes the feed a mix of new and re-released material. If you only want the current run, look at the dates in the latest list below.
Our take: How I Built This is for aspiring and working entrepreneurs who like origin stories told as a conversation. Consumer brands feature heavily in the recent titles.
The mix of formats means you can pick by time: the "Advice Line" episodes in the feed run about 43 to 47 minutes, while the full founder stories run from 68 to 81 minutes. The 10-year retrospective is 75 minutes and looks back at a decade of the show. With 879 episodes dating to 2016, there is a large archive behind the weekly releases.
We did not find a YouTube channel scan for How I Built This, so there is no view-ranked list here; the recent episodes below show what the show is like now.
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Show details on this page come from the public listings and feeds below, checked on October 24, 2026.
How I Built This is hosted by Guy Raz. It is produced by Vox Media Podcast Network.
Two to three times a week (about 24 episodes in the last 90 days, as of October 2026).
About 52 minutes (median).
We list recent episodes on this page instead of a view-ranked list, because we did not find a YouTube channel scan for the show.
Similar shows include Masters of Scale, Founders, Starter Story, The Tim Ferriss Show and Startup Stories - Mixergy.
