Kmart
company on 16 shows · 12 statements across 8 episodes · said 154 times in 45 episodes since 2016
Acquired 64 
How I Built This 25 
Founders 14 
the Knowledge Project 13 
My First Million 8 
All-In 6 
the MAD Podcast 5 
We Live to Build 3 
David Senra 3 
Capital Allocators 3 
the Pitch 2 
Invest Like the Best 2 
Top Founders 2 
20VC 2 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
the a16z Podcast 1
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2026 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
- Why Now is the Best Time to Buy Public Software Companies · Invest Like The Best
- Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
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2025 15 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard
- Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- Clear's Turnaround from Bankruptcy to IPO with CEO Caryn Seidman Becker · Invest Like The Best
- Vizio: William Wang
- #42 How Much Do You Trust Your Barista?
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2024 19 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- 3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird Ways
- From $0 to Half a Million in 30 Days Without Running a Single Ad
- MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
- Sol Price: The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, and Bernie Marcus
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2023 21 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- Every PE Investor Says the Same Thing When Asked Their Biggest Regret
- Nobody Prepays Anyone - Until Daniel Asked and They Said Sure
- In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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2022 64 mentions in 5 episodes 13 per episode
2021 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Spin Master/PAW Patrol: Ronnen Harary
- E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186
- Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215
- E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
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2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Live Episode! Luke's Lobster: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff
- 1543 They'll Help You Manufacture Your Product for 1/4th the Cost as Other Brokers, $100k in MRR, 20 Customers
- Chez Panisse: Alice Waters
- a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
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2017 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
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12 statements about Kmart, every show
Dick's Arbitraged Kmart's Loss-Leader Ammunition Pricing Below Wholesale Cost
“Marty filled an entire shopping cart with shotgun slugs, case after case, buying Kmart's entire inventory at their last liter price, cheaper than Dix could buy them from Remington or Winchester.”
Candee: Kmart reached out to Bounce expressing interest in partnership
“Yeah, we actually had Kmart reach out to us and say, hey, we're interested.”
Walmart and Kmart carried around 50,000 SKUs during Price Club's launch
“So at the time, Walmarts and Kmarts had on the order of about 50,000 SKUs and even FedMart had Probably close to that many at the time.”
Stalk: Walmart Beat Kmart by In-Sourcing Trucking and Accelerating Supplier Pay
“They did that by having their own trucking, not outsourcing it. They did that by scheduling deliveries once a week instead of once every two weeks or once a month. They did that by incenting their suppliers to deliver to a very strict and ornerous schedule by …”
Gilbert: Kmart operated at a much larger scale than Walmart for a long time
“I didn't realize that Kmart for a very long time was much, much larger than Walmart. They were kind of Walmart's big brother incumbent.”
In 1967, Kmart generated $800 million compared to Walmart's $10 million
“By like 1967 ish Kmart has 250 stores all across the country doing eight hundred million dollars in sales. And the new Walmart concept, Walmart revenue was still only around ten million dollars at that point in time”
Kmart historically acquired Sports Authority, OfficeMax, Waldenbooks, and Borders
“So Kmart between the mid eighties and the early nineties acquired sports authority, office max builder square Walden books and borders.”
Walmart, not Amazon, was the primary cause of Sears and Kmart's collapse
“And I thought like, oh, well, duh, Amazon killed them all. No, Walmart killed them. There's no way that Kmart or God forbid Sears at that point could compete against Walmart.”
Harari dropped Earth Buddies price by $1 on the spot pitching Kmart
“What went through my mind was, we were going to charge her two dollars and 65 cents U.S., and I dropped the price to one 65 in my mind right then and there.”
Kmart gave Spin Master an initial order of 48,000 Earth Buddies
“She said, okay, well, I'll give you an order for 48,000 pieces, and if it goes well, I'll give you an order for half a million pieces.”
Marc Lore refuses to interview candidates with lateral career moves
“Any kind of deviation to that, I don't, I just don't even, won't even interview. So a lateral move, out. Right. You know, move from a Google to Kmart. Sorry, Kmart, but out. Like, I just, I, anything, any little, like, tap that says not top five percent, and s…”