Top 11 Business Podcasts
These are the business shows we keep coming back to, hosted by reporters and by people who have actually built companies. Start at the top for the big company stories, or go further down for shows about managing people and figuring out your career.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 01Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
Two longtime friends spend hours reconstructing how one famous company got built, like Disney or Home Depot, and they do the reading so you don't have to.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 02How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
Guy Raz gets founders to tell the honest version of how their company started, including the near-misses and the moments they almost quit.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 03HBR IdeaCast
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review editors talk with researchers and executives about one management problem per episode, in about half an hour.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 04The Journal.
The Wall Street Journal & Spotify Studios
A twenty-minute weekday story from Wall Street Journal reporters about money and power, explained by the people who actually broke the news.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 05Founders
David Senra
Each week David Senra reads a biography of someone like Sam Walton or Michael Bloomberg and pulls out what they actually did differently.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 06Decoder with Nilay Patel
The Verge
Nilay Patel asks CEOs how their company is actually organized and how they make big calls, then pushes back when the answers get vague.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 07Business Wars
Audible
Dramatized retellings of famous rivalries like FanDuel against DraftKings, told season by season so you get the whole fight from start to finish.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 08Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Lenny Rachitsky
Long conversations with people who run product and growth at well-known tech companies, with specific advice you can bring to work on Monday.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 09Worklife with Molly Graham
TED
Molly Graham, who helped scale teams at Facebook, talks with guests about the parts of work people rarely post about, like burnout and big career changes.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 10Masters of Scale
WaitWhat
Founders and CEOs explain how they grew their companies, with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and rotating hosts asking what actually worked.
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EDITORIAL PICK / 11Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
A calm weekly interview show for new and mid-level managers, where authors and researchers explain how to handle one specific leadership problem.
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