Whole Foods Market: John Mackey
How I Built This with Guy Raz
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How a Vegetarian Commune Inspired John Mackey to Start Whole Foods
This episode of How I Built This is about Whole Foods. They are a financial supporter of NPR, but we thought the story of how the company came to be was so interesting that we wanted to tell it to you anyway. John Mackey: Venture capitalists are like hitchhikers with credit cards; as long as you take them to where they wanna go, they will help you pay for the gas. "I did not trust the VCs, I liked them, I didn't trust them," he says.
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