"I want to raise my kids the way that i was raised. And she looked at sam and said, you were raised the same way, small town." "Whatever business he id had to be family owned and controlled and have a small town base strategy," Oukow says of his father-in-law's original idea for federated department store chain. 'It would have been easy for him to say, like, ok, the boys are all going to take over the business, right? Which is like what we saw in the new york times family'
We kick off Season 11 with the incredible story of the retail “granddaddy of them all” Walmart, and its founder Sam Walton. Once you study Walmart, you realize just how deep its heritage runs through Amazon and so many iconic modern companies we cover on Acquired. This episode was an absolute blast, and we even uncovered a new addendum to the hallowed “focus on what makes your beer taste better” playbook theme!
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