Although I’ve enjoyed the few episodes of the *How I Built This” podcast that I’ve heard, it’s not something I go out of my way to hear. I’m not an entrepreneur or even all that interested in business, so I was a bit surprised how much I enjoyed this excerpt. Author Guy Raz caught my interest from the first page with his story of unlikely success of Stacy Brown’s Chick Salad Chick business. I appreciated Raz’s account of his own unlikely success as creator of a podcast about entrepreneurship: The child of two small business owners, he saw them struggling to keep their business going while raising children. When thinking about his idea for the How I Built This podcast, he wondered “Why would I care about the story of some business? It’s not like business was ever going to be my thing." It is clear that Raz is not trying to sell the rags-to-riches myth of the successful entrepreneur who succeeds solely due to their own hard work. Instead he offers a nuanced approach that makes his podcast -- and, based on this brief excerpt, this book -- interesting to listeners/readers like me who are skeptical of stories that leaves out the role of power, prejudice, and inequality in the story of the American dream. I am not convinced that the entire book will interest me, but I would give it a chance based on this excerpt.