Entrepreneurship
The mindset and practical decisions involved in building a business and creative career.
Alex Hormozi says AI can’t replace MrBeast because the $5 million prize has to be real
Hormozi’s best anti-AI argument isn’t that humans are magical, it’s that someone still has to be accountable when the money, reputation, or car is on the line.
Tim and Karrie League say Alamo Drafthouse was almost named The Tasty Burger because of a $5,000 neon-sign budget
The Alamo Drafthouse name, it turns out, was less Texas destiny than phone-book strategy, salvage-yard economics, and one rejected sign.
Jensen Huang says he would absolutely not start NVIDIA again if he knew how hard it would be
On How I Built This's 10-year anniversary, the NVIDIA founder's answer cuts through the usual founder mythology with a very expensive no thank you.
Mustafa Suleyman says AI agents will run an entire online business before 2030
The Microsoft AI CEO is bullish on agentic AI, but his most futuristic prediction also sounds a lot like the sales brochure for Copilot.
Jamie Siminoff says UV-protection shirts should be sold in sunscreen bottles, not the apparel aisle
The Ring founder’s advice was either retail genius or the kind of founder brain that turns every aisle at CVS into a battlefield.
Alan Newman says his 23 percent of Seventh Generation paid him about $200,000 before its $700 million Unilever sale
The How I Built This replay turns an eco-brand origin story into a very expensive co-founder breakup.
Benjamin Hardy says 10X growth requires cutting 80 percent of your life
The productivity guru’s sharpest claim is not to grind harder, but to delete most of the life that made you successful so far.
Michelle Wahler says founders don't need to raise money because investors make the exit the focus
The Beyond Yoga co-founder, who sold the brand to Levi’s for about $400 million, made the least Silicon Valley argument imaginable: build something sustainable before you start worshipping the cap table.
Gary Vaynerchuk says live shopping is exactly where social media was in 2014
On Mel Robbins, Gary Vee turned a motivational sermon into a very Gary Vee market call: if you think TikTok Shop already passed you by, he says you're mistaking the starting gun for the finish line.
Nicole Bernard Dawes says Late July would have failed if its organic tortilla chips flopped after a $3.5 million loan default
The Late July founder tells Guy Raz that crackers and cookies left the brand exposed, then tortilla chips turned a near-default into a $100 million snack business.
Daymond John says big-box retail puts more small brands out of business than it puts in business
The FUBU founder told a Chicago salsa company that the dream of getting on big-store shelves can become a margin-crushing trap.
Kevin O'Leary says Steve Jobs told him entrepreneurs should do only three signal tasks a day
O'Leary's Steve Jobs story is clean, brutal, useful, and then the PBD Podcast accidentally stress-tests it with a merch pitch.
Bobbi Brown says not every business has to be a rocket ship
On How I Built This, Brown pushed young founders away from Target envy and viral growth panic, and toward the unsexy religion of testing small.
Sarah LaFleur says premium kidswear brands should skip influencers and sell through trunk shows
The M.M.LaFleur founder gave the quiet luxury kidswear playbook a very offline answer: find the elegant school-drop-off parent, not the algorithm.
Gary Vaynerchuk says entrepreneurs who ignore their partners may not actually value the relationship
GaryVee’s productivity gospel gets its sharpest domestic translation: if you really wanted to see them, you would.
Alex Hormozi says doing hard things physically does not make you better at doing hard things emotionally
The guy who built a business empire on the gospel of relentless effort is here to tell you your ice bath is not making you braver where it counts.
Tara LaFerrara Built a Million-Dollar Fitness Business by Refusing to Be Perfect
The Broads founder on coaching funnels, a $130,000 app failure, and why 'do the cringe thing' is actually a business strategy.
Benjamin Hardy Says You're Measuring Yourself Wrong, and He Has the Viktor Frankl Story to Prove It
The organizational psychologist behind 'The Gap and the Gain' explains why hitting your goals might make you feel worse, and what Mr. Beast figured out at 17 that most adults never do.