Five Guys: Jerry Murrell

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Murrell's mother used to tell him, you can always make money if you know how to make a good burger. In 1986 — after failing at a number of business ideas — Murrell opened a tiny burger joint in Northern Virginia with his four sons. Five Guys now has more than 1,400 locations worldwide and is one of the fastest growing restaurant chains in America. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how Aiden Emilio and her husband created RexSpecs — UV-protecting goggles for dogs. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.
0:13.0	As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.
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0:24.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:30.0	How did you even know how to make a burger?
0:33.0	I mean, were you a good home chef? Was anybody in your family a good chef?
0:37.0	Listen, you come from my hometown, you can't make a burger, you can't live.
0:40.0	So I mean, we knew how to make burgers. I knew how to cook a potato. That was both of that.
0:45.0	You knew how to grill a burger out of fried potatoes.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	And that's all you really needed to know how to do.
0:51.0	That's all we knew.
0:56.0	From NPR, it's how I built this.
0:58.0	A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
1:10.0	I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, how a tiny family-run burger joint in suburban Virginia became one of the fastest growing restaurant chains in American history.
1:20.0	So Jerry's going to move a little closer to that mic, right? Yeah.
1:28.0	So Jerry, get a little bit closer.
1:30.0	Okay.
1:31.0	And can you see me okay?
1:32.0	Yeah.
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