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Podcast: How I Built This with Guy Raz
Episode: Vizio: William Wang
Description: When Wiliam Wang started selling flat-screen TVâs, he used a winning playbook: partner with an efficient manufacturer, cut out the middlemen, and price your product as low as you can. William used a similar strategy at his first companyâmaking computer monitorsâand he built it into a multimillion dollar business. But he wound up mismanaging it into the ground, and spent years working to pay off millions of dollars in debt. After surviving a catastrophic plane crash, William embarked on a new venture, Vizio, and returned to his âcut-out-the-middlemenâ playbook to sell one of the worldâs first intern...