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#45 Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
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The Prehistory of Home Depot
Most of the book I would say is written by Bernie Marcus, which is he was the CEO. So at the time he's working for this, this retail company called Two Guys, a lot of the companies they work for are conglomerates. People in the company focused on their own careers, not the customers. As a result, the customers disappeared and careers sank. The history of retailing is filled with once great companies that disappeared off of the face of the earth. And so we're going to spend some time understanding a little bit what he was doing at Dailin Corporation.
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