Name: Guy Raz Breaks Down Why Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T01:35:19.000Z
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for coming back to the show and coming on.

To-infinitive

-Thank you for having me. It's great to see you.

Seeing you is like -- it's like going back in time

'Cause the last time I saw you was a better time.

I want to get into your shows, but also congrats on the book.

had time to write a book, but you're putting out new episodes

of "How I Built This" and you started a live version

I want to talk about, the "Resilience" series.

How did this come about? Was it your idea?

Did you go like, "Hey this is a perfect time to talk to

-Once the pandemic hit, it was clear that

because a lot of people who listen to the show are

entrepreneurs, or they have small businesses.

And people were and still are freaking out.

we could bring on well-known entrepreneurs,

from like Airbnb and Lyft and, you know, and Slack,

and talk to our audience and basically describe

So in a way we wanted to sort of say, "Look, you know,

you're not the only one, and here's how other people

are building resilience, and here are some of

the creative ways they're actually keeping

their businesses alive, and it's been amazing.

We're doing a video podcast twice a week.

And it's been so fun. And we take live questions.

Let's talk about your new book. It just announced that it's

on the "New York Times" bestseller's list,

and hit number one on "The Wall Street Journal's"

best-selling business books. Congrats, buddy.

I'm thanking you for autographing it for me,

I appreciate that. Here. I have it right here.

than what I thought it would be, but interesting.

"Hope you like book." Well, that's interesting.

When you're putting this together, did you go back

and listen to all the interviews you've done?

-Yeah, I mean, I interview people for three or four

and the insight I really walked away from

after really trying to put the book together,

was that entrepreneurship is actually a mindset.

It's a way of thinking. It's a way of operating.

It's a series of skills that you can learn.

It's solving problems. It's overcoming obstacles.

And the only difference between the people that I profile

in the book and, you know, the rest of us,

is that they walked into the phone booth and put on the cape,

is to be the phone booth for people who are ready

to put on the cape. -Yeah. Anyone can do it.

It's just -- they didn't have any special skills

You know, you talk about something in the book

called the founder's dilemma, which I find very interesting.

This is when a company becomes a success,

having his company, having control of the company,

-But you say that there's a third option.

And it sounds very simple, but it's happiness.

The vast majority, I would say virtually every person

they don't go into starting a business to become rich.

Because a business essentially, that's what it is.

It's, there's a problem, and I'm going to solve it

by brewing better coffee and Payal Kadakia

wanted to solve it by creating a more efficient way

The reality is many of the founders I've interviewed

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Guy Raz Breaks Down Why Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur

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