{"podcast":{"title":"Build or Break","slug":"build-or-break-8006393","podcast_index_feed_id":8006393,"rss_url":"https://rss2.flightcast.com/jcal6hh51ojy5f2u6fc7w28x.xml","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://files.flightcast.com/workspaces/h4oz3yrjufcn01ncqox6eund/01KYQFZVRH46M443AZBCM6X7KB/build_or_break_-_show_cover_1400x1400.jpg","author":"Daniel Lubetzky","episode_count":7,"summary":"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, leadership, resilience, and the decisions that define a builder.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T00:18:26.052171+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-or-break-8006393"},"episode":{"title":"Kendra Scott's 1st Business Failed. Her 2nd Became a Billion Dollar Company.","slug":"kendra-scott-s-1st-business-failed-her-2nd-became-a-billion-dollar-company","published_at":"2026-09-03T10:06:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-or-break-8006393/kendra-scott-s-1st-business-failed-her-2nd-became-a-billion-dollar-company","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-or-break-8006393","url":"https://episode.flightcast.com/01M19S4XVD0YR8Q9BYP7HM1YDE.mp3","audio_url":"https://episode.flightcast.com/01M19S4XVD0YR8Q9BYP7HM1YDE.mp3","summary":"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. Kendra opens up about building Kendra Scott out of a spare bedroom with a newborn on her hip, why she named the company after herself almost by accident, the \"worst boss\" who taught her the most, and what it's really like behind the scenes as the newest full-time Shark on Shark Tank. She also talks candidly about launching her second brand, Yellow Rose, why she'll never franchise, and the advisor-turned-first-investor she lost far too soon. All images from Kendra's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/officialkendrascott/ https://www.instagram.com/kendrascott/ https://www.tiktok.com/@officialkendrascott https://x.com/kendrascott https://www.linkedin.com/company/kendra-scott https://www.instagram.com/DanielLubetzky https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellubetzky https://x.com/DanielLubetzky https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellubetzky https://daniellubetzky.com/ 🙋🏻Become a Builder: https://buildersmovement.org/ Music: Amos Cochran https://www.editscoremusic.com/ Production: Straybird Studios https://www.straybird.studio/ Post Production: Jennell Lewis & Scott Convery Social Media Production: https://www.edits-etc.com/ Build or Break Team: Executive Producer & Host: Daniel Lubetzky Executive Producer: Kristin Schneider Head o…","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4092,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/build-or-break-8006393/episodes/kendra-scott-s-1st-business-failed-her-2nd-became-a-billion-dollar-company/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/build-or-break-8006393/kendra-scott-s-1st-business-failed-her-2nd-became-a-billion-dollar-company.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}