Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery

Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Roz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one minute message that tells us about your business and the issues or questions that you like help with. All right, let's get to it. Joining me today is Hernan Lopez, co-founder of the podcast network Wondery, which also distributes this show, How I Built This. Hernan, welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for having me again. So we first had you on the show back in twenty twenty three, uh and as always if you haven't heard that episode, it's a great story, it's really worth checking out. We'll put a link to it.

uh in the episode description. But basically the story is Hernan was a uh a T V executive and you left in twenty sixteen inspired by this new thing called podcasting to start a podcast network. You pitched it, you struggled with with investors to to get them on board. You almost ran out of cash, and then you had this really big hit in a show called Dirty John. And soon after

Uh Wondery became the target of of interest from acquirers and was eventually acquired by Amazon. And uh You're not part of it anymore, but uh that's I mean it's an amazing story of how you built this This brand into what it is today. Thank you. It was one of the most rewarding experiences my whole life to see it go from zero to one to see it. become part of Amazon and then to have the opportunity to advise other founders that

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