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Chris Riccobono co-founded and led UNTUCKit, the men's brand known for shirts designed to be worn untucked. A Providence College grad and Columbia MBA, he built the company from a side hustle at GE Healthcare into an 80-plus-store phenomenon. He later co-founded Greatness Wins performance apparel.

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Chuck Surack is the founder and chairman of Sweetwater Sound, the largest online retailer of musical instruments and pro audio equipment in the United States. He launched the business 42 years ago as a mobile recording studio in a Volkswagen microbus, building it into a billion-dollar enterprise known for its unmatched customer service and deeply knowledgeable sales engineers.

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Andy Jeremiah co-founded Mr Game Show Florida with Tracey Geremia in 2021. The pair built the brand to host game nights for planned communities across the region. It was later featured on the How I Built This podcast.

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Curt Richardson was a guest on the How I Built This podcast, where he discussed OtterBox, the brand featured on the show.

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Marissa Valenzuela founded Gilded Coach Teas in 2020. She is the brand’s lead Fairy Godmother and tea alchemist. The line creates handcrafted blends inspired by fairy tales from around the world. She demoed iced tea on BloomTV in July 2021, and is a guest on How I Built This.

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Vince Giudice is Co-Founder & CEO of evrloop, the New Jersey-based fully circular baby gear company he launched with wife Marlo Gertz-Giudice in 2022 to keep babies’ carbon footprints small. He previously founded and sold Marlo’s Bakeshop, and was a guest on the How I Built This podcast.

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Aman Narang is the co-founder and CEO of Toast, a point of sale platform for restaurants. After an earlier startup failed, he launched Toast in 2012 to fix restaurant checkout. Under his leadership, Toast grew from a Boston basement into a publicly traded company serving 120,000 U.S. restaurants.

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Emma Fakwade, engineer-turned-designer and HIBT Podcast guest, is founder, creative director and fashion engineer of Toronto-based luxury made-to-order label ISRAELLA KOBLA. The British-born Ghanaian designer’s brand redefines minimalism with structured, boldly feminine pieces, now at Nordstrom...

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Kenneth Cole is founder, chairman and creative director of Kenneth Cole Productions, the 40-year brand he launched in 1983. A recent guest on the How I Built This podcast, he appointed Jed Berger as CEO and president to shift the brand to a marketing-led storytelling model, with Emily Cole as...

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Levi Case founded Swing Sculpt, the golf brand featured on How I Built This. The company transforms golfers’ fleeting swing motion into timeless custom art and jewelry.

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