Build or Break
Daniel Lubetzky — KIND Snacks founder, Shark Tank investor, Mexican Jewish social entrepreneur — sits down with the world's most fearless builders to uncover what it takes to create, innovate, and build things when others would have broken.Our guests are founders, comedians, scientists, athletes, actors, and public figures. No matter what field they come from - business, sports, entertainment, media, politics, or culture - they all face the same fork in the road.Daniel pushes past what they built to why they were willing to risk it, and how they kept going when it started to break. Real conversations about entrepreneurship, lead...
Jason Alexander: How Do You Handle Peaking With Seinfeld?
Larry David told Jason Alexander he was playing George Costanza wrong. Then, when Seinfeld made him an international celebrity, it took him the better part of 30 years — and a lot of therapy — to figure out what to do with that.
Jason sits down with KIND founder Daniel Lubetzky, his friend of 25 years, to talk about the Seinfeld years and everything around them: the theater professor who told him he’d never play Hamlet (“try Falstaff instead”), how he built George out of Woody Allen, Jackie Gleason, and Larry David himself, and the work that first brought them together.<...
Matthew McConaughey Read 20 Years of Bad Reviews in One Weekend
Matthew McConaughey took 20 years of his worst reviews into the desert for a weekend. He believed a lie about himself for more than 40 years. And he says he's better for both.
In this interview on Build or Break, Matthew sits down with Daniel Lubetzky for a conversation that goes well past the highlight reel: what he found on his Little Mr. Texas trophy while writing Greenlights, what the critics taught him, and the moment in Joel Schumacher's office when he had the nerve to say he should play the lead in A Time to Kill.
Th...
Lucy Aharish: The Muslim Woman Who Became Israel's First Arab News Anchor
Lucy Aharish was the first Arab Muslim woman to anchor the news in Hebrew on mainstream Israeli TV. On October 7, while her husband — Fauda star Tsahi Halevi — headed south with his unit, she helped steer a rescue team to 12 people trapped in a Kfar Aza safe room. She's interviewed a Hamas official and a sitting president, and this year she faced a mob outside her own apartment.
In this episode of Build or Break, Lucy sits down with Daniel Lubetzky to talk identity, extremism, and courage. She opens up about growing up the only Arab Muslim girl in a...
How Diary of a CEO Went From 40 Downloads to 120M - Build or Break
How did The Diary of a CEO go from 40 downloads to 120 million a month? Steven Bartlett sits down with Daniel on Build or Break to break down exactly how he created one of the most popular podcasts in the world. He walks us through the failed 18-month bet that eventually cracked it, and how the show now runs in 20 languages with zero human translators involved.
Beyond the growth story, he and Daniel get genuinely candid about a rough patch in his relationship with his fiancée and how they worked through it, compare what it's actually like s...
The Inventor of Ring Was Bankrupt. Here’s How He Turned it Around.
Jamie Siminoff was personally bankrupt before Shark Tank even aired. When Kevin O'Leary offered him $700K for 10% of his company, he walked away with no deal. Amazon bought that company, Ring, for $1.15 billion.
In this episode of Build or Break, Jamie breaks down the actual mechanics behind the story most people only know the headline version of: why he turned down Mr. Wonderful on national TV, how everything almost fell apart before Shark Tank even filmed, and what he says now about first-night sales numbers that most founders get wrong. He also gets into the failed products...
Andrew Yang Explains Why 94% of Congress Never Loses Reelection
Andrew Yang was right about the 2024 election. He was right about AI. He was right about MATH. When he talks, you better pay attention!
I sat down with Andrew Yang for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from personal to political and back again — getting bullied as the only Asian kid in his school, quitting a prestigious law firm five months in, and building the "Yang Gang" from a fringe campaign into a national movement built on a $3 million baseball cap. Andrew opens up about the hardest year of his life — becoming a father to a son later diag...
Chris Paul on the Clippers: "One of the Most Disrespectful Things I've Endured"
Chris Paul opens up about the night his grandfather was murdered — and the 61-point game he played right after that could have broken Michael Jordan's state scoring record.
CP3 sits down with me for a conversation that goes past the highlight reel — the jump ball trick he used for 20 years that referees never called, the night in 2005 he learned his grandfather had been beaten to death, and his next game where he scored 61 points and then deliberately threw the ball out of bounds, just shy of a state record.
Chris talked with me abou...
Kendra Scott's 1st Business Failed. Her 2nd Became a Billion Dollar Company.
Kendra Scott started her first company to give hats to cancer patients. It failed. With $500, a spare bedroom, and a newborn baby, she started again, and this time built one of the most recognizable brands in America.
Kendra Scott sits down with me for a wide-ranging, funny, and unexpectedly emotional conversation — from getting bullied so badly in middle school she ate lunch in a bathroom stall, to the stepfather whose battle with brain cancer inspired her first (failed) business, to the ten years she spent unable to get a single investor to write her a check.
Kevin O'Leary: America Loses to China if We Regulate AI
Kevin O'Leary opens up about the $12.9M card he wore to the Oscars, what he did that almost ended his engagement, and the moment his stepfather told him he'd never make it.
Before Shark Tank, before "Mr. Wonderful," Kevin O'Leary was a kid getting told by his stepfather that he wasn't good enough to be a photographer. In this episode of Build or Break, Kevin sits down with Daniel Lubetzky for a conversation that goes far past the TV persona — the $12.9M sports card he bought on a hunch (and turned down $21M for), the ni...
This Confession May Actually Break Me
My friends Steven Bartlett, Andrew Yang, Kendra Scott, and Jason Alexander all agree: this time I may have gone too far. Subscribe to Build or Break to hear the rest of our stories.
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Mark Cuban got fired. Kevin O'Leary got fired. Chris Paul got released. Kendra Scott failed before she built a billion-dollar company. Every guest on this show has a moment where it could've gone either way.
Build or Break is a new interview series from Daniel Lubetzky — founder of KIND Snacks, Shark Tank investor — sitting down with the people who've been closest to the edge and asking what it took to keep going when everyone else would have quit.
This trailer features conversations from upcoming episodes with Mark...
Chris Paul, Steven Bartlett, and More: The Moment That Almost Broke Them - Build or Break
Chris Paul. Steven Bartlett. The moment before everything almost fell apart.
I'm Daniel Lubetzky — founder of KIND Snacks, a Shark Tank investor, and a "confused Mexican Jewish social entrepreneur." I started KIND with one bar and a hundred rejections. Now I'm building the most ambitious project of my life: a podcast about what it actually takes to build something — and the moments almost nobody talks about, when it nearly broke you instead.
This is Build or Break.
In this series, you’ll see Chris Paul reveal the moment he went into shock. Steven Bartle...
