VICE: Suroosh Alvi (2017)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We're hard at work planning our upcoming live show, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: VICE. Suroosh Alvi was a recovering addict when he started a scrappy underground magazine in Montreal. It grew into a multi-billion dollar company that has shaken up the world of journalism. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Kent Sheridan of Voila Coffee, a company aiming to make instant coffee with the quality of a four-dollar pour over. 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, as one behavioral scientist
0:14.0	put it.
0:15.0	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
0:22.0	changes, both big and small.
0:25.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:27.0	Hey, it's Guy here, so we're still working hard prepping for a live episode coming up in
0:31.8	a couple of weeks.
0:33.0	In fact, we are looking forward to seeing some of you there in Seattle on September 14th for
0:38.8	my conversation with Howard Schultz of Starbucks.
0:42.2	But for now, we've got this one from our archives.
0:44.6	One of our favorites.
0:45.6	It's the story of Vice.
0:47.6	Enjoy.
0:48.6	I remember walking down the street, completely freaked out with a friend of mine who also went
0:56.2	to meetings, and I was scared, and because I didn't know what I was doing, and he said,
1:01.2	what have you got to lose?
1:03.0	He said, maybe it'll be like one magazine that you make, and you can go around and say,
1:08.2	hey, I've made this magazine, and then you can apply for a job and get a job somewhere,
1:12.2	or maybe it'll be huge.
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