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How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Guy Raz

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  • Mark CubanBook endorsement
    Cuban endorses Guy Raz's How I Built This on the author's official book page, praising its inspiration and saying readers will be ready to act. The endorsement is undated.
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Summary

Guy Raz, working with Nils Parker, draws on interviews with entrepreneurs to describe how businesses develop from an idea. The book examines raising money, recruiting people, dealing with competitors and paying oneself, through the experiences of different company builders.

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  • SourceHow I Built This — publisher-supplied bibliographic record · Bibliographic information: Guy Raz and Nils Parker; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020; ISBN 9780358216766. Collaboration credit only; existing primary-author field and route remain unchanged.

Why read it Our view

Useful for early founders comparing how different businesses handled their first stages. Use the stories to frame questions about funding, hiring and building an idea; another company’s path is not a promise of the same result.

Written about

  • Peter RahalRXBAR case study
    Chapter 10 uses Rahal and RXBAR to examine entry through an underserved customer group and sales channel. Rahal is a case subject and quoted interviewee; this does not establish his reading or authorship.
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