John Mackey, every mention

I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods Aug 16, 2024 · 228 mentions

• ▶ 0:00 David Senra To make this episode, I got to spend about seven hours with John Mackey over two days, and I read his great autobiography twice. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:42 David Senra That was an excerpt from the book that we talked about today, which is The Whole Story Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism, and is written by John Mackey, founder and former CEO of Whole Foods. 24 times in the scene
• ▶ 8:08 David Senra In fact, I asked John about that, uh, when we had dinner. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:44 David Senra So one of the responsibilities and the jobs that, that John has, uh, as a member of Prana House is he actually is the food buyer for the entire community. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 15:21 David Senra He raises, he has this idea. 22 times in the scene
• ▶ 20:46 David Senra So now we have John's dad giving him that same book. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 25:32 David Senra He was, there was not another John Mackey in his industry. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 28:39 David Senra And so what John does next is really smart. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 32:18 David Senra It's going to be Craig, Mark, and then John and John's girlfriend, Renee. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:43 David Senra Imagine the euphoria that you would feel if you were in John's shoes, the amount of time, effort, energy, love, and risk that you took. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:31 David Senra One of the things that was very interesting that, that John and I talked about at dinner is he said that the years go by fast and a lot gets lost to memory. 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 40:48 David Senra And so John gets this idea. 18 times in the scene
• ▶ 44:58 David Senra I was like, John, I'm not doing MDMA. 13 times in the scene
• ▶ 49:21 David Senra And so he makes a jump and he starts expanding to California, but as he does, he goes home to visit his mom who's in very, very poor health. 11 times in the scene
• ▶ 50:55 David Senra One thing that's very, very obvious if you read the book is John's distaste for venture capitalists. 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 53:59 David Senra John has a lot more to say about VCs and his perspective on them in the book, which I'll get to in 1:02, cause they're about to IPO. 12 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:01 David Senra In fact, one of the things that me and John bonded over when we were speaking is the fact that he thought the podcast was a good discovery mechanism. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 59:55 David Senra When I was reading the book, one of the first things I wrote down when I knew I was going to have dinner at John was, I was like, the first question I want to ask him is like, tell me about your dad. 22 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:05:52 David Senra Now there's two things John said when we were together that blew my mind. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:09:42 David Senra So John has a very talented chief operating officer and, and president named Walter Robb, and he says, I knew Walter was hungry for more, and that sooner or later, someone's gonna make him an offer to be CEO. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:12:37 David Senra And John Mackey talks about the difficulty of running a public company, you know, and, and what happens is in good times, you kind of let things slip a little. 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:16:43 David Senra And so Jenna meets with Mackey and the executives and says, essentially their message was this, we're going to take over Whole Foods Market, we're going to take control of your board, and we're going to replace management, and then we're… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:19:09 David Senra John Mackey is out. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:24:10 David Senra And so that was key in the book, key in the conversation I had with John.
• ▶ 1:27:43 David Senra There's two things that John and I talked about that I absolutely loved. 4 times in the scene