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How I Built This with Guy Raz

Power Rangers: Haim Saban (2017)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.831.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

As a refugee growing up in Tel Aviv, Haim Saban remembers not having enough money to eat. As an adult, he hustled his way into the entertainment business, writing theme songs for classic cartoons like Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff. But producing the mega-hit Mighty Morphin Power Rangers put him on track to becoming a billionaire media titan. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Chris Waters who created Constructed Adventures, elaborate scavenger hunts for all occasions. (Original broadcast date: March 27, 2017.) 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.

0:07.0

Download the app today.

0:09.0

New years is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

0:13.0

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

0:17.0

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

0:24.0

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

0:27.0

Hey, it's Guy here. So, you know how I usually get to ask our guest the question, how did you get to where you got?

0:33.0

Was it luck or skill or hard work or what?

0:36.0

Well, with Heimseban, I actually never got around to asking that.

0:40.0

But in this episode, you will still hear a lot about luck, a lot about hard work, and a ton about Heimse's special skill,

0:48.0

which is knowing a really good idea when he sees one.

0:52.0

That's the first episode, first ran in March of last year, and I hope you enjoy it.

0:58.0

I have to tell you that the biggest hits that I had in my life, Henning Music and Henning Television and Henning Business,

1:09.0

have been always as a result of significant rejections and repeated rejections.

1:19.0

Every time I have an idea that people tell me, no, don't do that, I say, oops, I'm on to something.

1:31.0

From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

1:40.0

I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, how a group of Spandex-wearing teenage superheroes called the Power Rangers helped turn Heimseban into one of the richest men on Earth.

1:59.0

If you asked Heimseban what he does,

2:02.0

I used to describe myself as a cartoon shlipper.

2:05.0

Cartoon shlipper? Yeah, what I did for years is I went and knocked on doors and tried to sell cartoons all over the world.

2:15.0

That's what a shlipper does.

2:17.0

And he shlipped some of the biggest cartoons of the 80s and 90s, Inspector Gadget, X-Men, and of course his biggest hit,

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