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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Business | Starting the Walmart Supercenter Concept | An Interview with Sam Walton’s Right Hand Man (Tommy Smith)

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Transcript

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On today's show, we have an exclusive opportunity to interview Sam Walton's

0:05.0

right hand man, Tommy Smith.

0:08.0

First of all, his desk was wobbly.

0:10.0

It had a cylinder block on one corner, but it was press wood.

0:13.0

It's like desk you buy these cheap office furniture stores today.

0:17.0

That's kind of what his desk was.

0:18.0

And then his couch, the couch in front of his desk was an old vinyl couch.

0:22.0

Tommy Smith shares with us about the character, the drive, the intentionality,

0:27.0

and the management style that allowed Sam Walton to build America's largest big box retail store.

0:33.0

Sam Walton was famous for flying his own private plane from point A to point B

0:38.0

as opposed to flying commercial.

0:40.0

And the man who rode with him on those flights was none other than Mr. Tommy Smith today's guest.

0:47.0

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show.

0:51.0

But this show dies.

0:53.0

Two men.

0:54.0

Eight kids co-created by two different women.

0:58.0

13 multi-million dollar businesses.

1:01.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the thrine time show.

1:06.0

Yes, yes, yes, and yes, welcome back to their exciting edition of the thrine time show on your radio and podcast download.

1:32.0

I want to ask you a question.

1:33.0

I don't want you to play the game with me.

1:35.0

I want you to be giving you an answer.

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