Hosted by Rob Dyrdek
Build With Rob is a show about building amazing companies while building an amazing life. Whether you're a seasoned or aspiring entrepreneur, climbing the corporate ladder, or seeking to live an optimized, balanced life, Rob Dyrdek's advice will help propel you toward your goals.
100 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2023-12-04 · ~23 min/episode
Rank
#5684
Substance
39.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
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#5684 of 6182
Substance
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Build With Rob ranks #5684 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 39.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on guest caliber and specificity & evidence. Rob Dyrdek has genuine operator credentials - he owns production, negotiated a landmark cable order, and runs a portfolio - but this episode barely surfaces any of that; the format forces him into a self-help guru role rather than a practitioner sharing hard-won business knowledge.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
The vast majority of the episode is a formulaic five-step manifestation framework drawn almost verbatim from self-help orthodoxy, with platitudes about meditating and visualising smells. There is a single genuinely substantive moment at the very end about negotiating TV unit economics, but it arrives in fragments and is never unpacked.
“manifestation is not a lottery ticket”
“you are pulling yourself towards the reality that you wanted to create in the future”
Rob explicitly credits The Secret as the source of the framework and the episode is essentially a retelling of it with personal anecdotes grafted on. There is no contrarian, first-principles, or counterintuitive argument for a B2B operator anywhere in the episode.
“my wife suggested like why don't we just watch the secret you know and I kind of remember the secret and then the first 15 minutes it just shifted my being”
“you are locked into the quantum field and you are pulling yourself towards the reality that you wanted to create”
Rob Dyrdek has genuine operator credentials - he owns production, negotiated a landmark cable order, and runs a portfolio - but this episode barely surfaces any of that; the format forces him into a self-help guru role rather than a practitioner sharing hard-won business knowledge.
“I own the production now I was able to negotiate directly with the head of the network on the unit economics of the show”
“we have the biggest order in the history of cable television”
A handful of concrete data points exist - season numbers, a 186-episode order, an EBITDA mention, a 2018 inflection point - but they are scattered and underdeveloped, surrounded by pages of vague motivational language with no verifiable claims.
“I was in season 12 I decided I wasn't going to manifest season 13 I kept manifesting walking on the stage introducing season 30”
“that 186 order took it straight to market. Now I took it to market. Here's the three years in EBITDA.”
This is an uninterrupted solo monologue with no host, no interviewer, no follow-up questions, and no pushback whatsoever; the five-step structure is self-directed and no claim is ever challenged or deepened by an external voice.
“Hey, everybody, something special here today, the five steps to manifesting anything you want in this life.”
“Step two, meditate. It's undeniable what the consistency of meditating and ultimately practicing manifestation can really help you”
2023-12-04
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