The Making of a Customer | Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bernie Marcus, the man, the myth, the legend, founder of Home Depot along with Ken Lengone, |
| 0:13.8 | billionaire, multi-billionaire philanthropist. |
| 0:16.5 | What this guy has done for philanthropy is way beyond what he did for Home Depot, which |
| 0:21.2 | of course is remarkable. |
| 0:23.3 | Also author of the great new book, Kick Up Some Dust, Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving |
| 0:28.8 | Back and Doing It Yourself, he said some things to me in this interview that literally |
| 0:33.9 | will change the way I view my life. |
| 0:36.9 | So he's a good guy, he's 93 years old, he's done incredible things, let's listen to |
| 0:41.2 | him, Bernie Marcus. |
| 0:45.2 | This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host. |
| 0:50.0 | This is the James Altiger show. |
| 1:02.0 | Bernie Marcus, co-founder of a little store, Home Depot, whenever I go into a Home Depot, |
| 1:08.2 | I feel like I'm entering the Death Star. |
| 1:10.3 | Like it is so huge, and everywhere you go, I'm not even interested at all in home repair, |
| 1:16.6 | but I'm fascinated by all the things in every aisle. |
| 1:20.0 | There's 6,000 paint colors I've never heard of, for instance. |
| 1:23.5 | When you started the store, obviously you were thinking big, you had a lot of experience |
| 1:27.8 | in retail that I want to hear about. |
| 1:29.7 | But the one thing that strikes me is, it feels like Home Depot is to hardware and home |
| 1:35.9 | repair. |
| 1:36.9 | What Walmart was to groceries just a few years, like a decade earlier. |
| 1:41.3 | Like did you see Walmart as a big influence? |
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