Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

After being involved in Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, Jann Wenner wanted to start a publication to capture the exploding counterculture scene of the 1960s. The result was Rolling Stone, a gritty music magazine that – for 50 years — has left an indelible mark on rock music and journalism. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how Cleveland resident Joel Crites created the app Micro Fantasy, a game where fans can make mini-predictions about what will happen next during a baseball game. 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 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.
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	We made a big mistake in our editorial process.
0:32.0	I was sick about it.
0:34.0	I mean, 50 years of great journalism, and it reputates for integrity and for quality and stuff, and then there was a couple of really bad judgment calls that were made on a very sensitive story.
0:46.0	And it blew up on our face.
0:48.0	That was probably the biggest one.
0:50.0	That was always there's just one thing that happens.
0:57.0	From NPR, it's how I built this.
1:00.0	A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
1:11.0	I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, a young winner took sex drugs and rock and roll, packaged it into one of America's most iconic magazines,
1:19.0	and built a publishing empire out of it.
1:27.0	The thing you've probably noticed about the people who've been on the show is they all saw an opportunity, and they took it.
1:34.0	Sure, there was luck, there was hard work, failure, persistence, all of that.
1:38.0	But the difference between, say, Sarah Blakely and the rest of us is that in the 1990s, she saw an opportunity to improve women's undergarments.
1:48.0	And she seized it.
1:51.0	Rod canyons saw an opening to make better personal computers in the 1980s, so he built Compact.
1:57.0	And for a young winner, he was also in the right place at the right time.
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