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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So the second year, how much did you lose?
A Uh, we made 5000 dollars the second year. I was really cocky. Man, we made 5000 dollars. I got a viable business here. I know. Let's relocate it and triple the size. Which, of course, the existing investors said, no, let's stay where we are and make some money, and then maybe we'll see how you do. And I said, and I, I said, how about if I find new capital? And I did. I found new capital. And then we were able to make that relocation. And that, uh, that relocation and a merger with another small natural food store changed the name to Whole Foods. And that first Whole Foods market was, it quickly became the highest volume natural food store in the United States. It just took off. It was incredible success.
AI assessment note: “we made 5000 dollars the second year.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Yeah. Well, your book, Conscious Capitalism, one of your, one of your books has had a real profound impact on, on a lot of different leaders. Uh, maybe if you can tell us what are the tenets of conscious capitalism?
A Conscious capitalism is basically, uh, It starts with the premise that business is good, and it is good because it creates value for other people. It's based on voluntary exchange. It, it creates jobs. It creates prosperity in the world. However, if done more consciously with a sense of higher purpose, with a, with a real understanding that all the major stakeholders are interdependent with each other, and that they form a larger system, and you can, you can begin to manage that system to optimize it. So I would say to understand that, just say that like Whole Foods, a retail company, uh, management's jobs to hire the best people we can find, and make sure that they are well trained, and then, and then also that they are happy in their work, because when their team members are happy, they serve the customers better, and that makes the customers happy. Happy customers helps market the business through, through word of mouth, they're also loyal, they keep coming back, That makes the investors happy, and you have this interdependent virtuous circle.
AI assessment note: “done more consciously with a sense of higher purpose, with a, with a real understanding”
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D 4 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.55
Q where we talked about the different kind of parts of the country, different worldviews, is the way you put it. And there's, there's a traditional part The modern part and the progressive part, and you have an idea of how we could take the wisdom from each of those and move forward better. Can you, can you tell me a little bit about each of these parts of the country?
A Well, the, the theory is, which I adhere to, is that, uh, consciousness and culture actually evolve. That, uh, and that the best way to understand America right now is in terms of three, uh, three developmental phases. The first one being sort of traditionalism, where Uh, you might say, if we go back to the founding of the country in 17, uh, uh, 76 or 1789, depending on whether the Declaration of Independence or the, or when we elected president started and the Constitution was approved. Um, if you go back then about, about About 90% of the people were traditionalists that lived in the United States, and about 10% were modernists. The modernists were like Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, and Washington, and Madison, and Hamilton. Those guys were the first modernists. They were deists. They, they, they were well-educated, and, uh, but the traditionalists are, you know, the traditional values for family, Um, loyalty to your country. Um, uh, basically the, the, the kind of values that we now think of as more conservative.
AI assessment note: “The first one being sort of traditionalism... The modernists were like Ben Franklin”
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D 1 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 2.95
Q Should, should, should the places selling you food be educating you more about these things or it's not really their job or it's too hard?
A Here's the catch-twenty-two. Let me just, let me just state the essence of this problem. Humanity evolved over tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of years, where just getting enough calories was our biggest problem. So we evolved with a, a system that craves calorie density. And calorie density for most of history was very rare. By calorie density, I mean things that have a lot of fat in them, have a lot of carbohydrates in them, have a lot of, um, Texas barbecue. Yes. Texas barbecue is very calorie dense, but it wasn't common. Back, ah, through most of our evolutionary history. And the type of animals you might be able to get if you're out hunting, ah, were very rain, you know, very gamey range animals.
AI assessment note: “Humanity evolved over tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of years”
