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Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018)
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore
Live Episode! The Home Depot: Arthur Blank
- ▶ 2:00 Guy Raz And the story of how Arthur Blank and his mentor Bernie Marcus built it will inspire anyone who's ever been fired, because if those guys had never got fired from their safe, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Arthur Blank Uh, I had met my partner at HD, Bernie Marcus, uh, through, through Dalen. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:54 Guy Raz Bernie Marcus is there as well. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:40 Guy Raz So what did you, what did you and Bernie start to do at Handy Dan?
- ▶ 10:56 Arthur Blank Yeah, I mean, we were, we were, at that time, we were running the most successful home improvement center company in the United States, and Bernie, um, and, what is his name, Sandy Merciless Ming. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:55 Arthur Blank I wanted to take my time, as did Bernie, and, ah, think through the options that we had. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:57 Guy Raz How did you, how, when, when Bernie came to you and said, hey, here's the business plan, you were in, you were in right away, you, you, you said, let's do this thing? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:18 Arthur Blank Um, so we, um, I asked Bernie, let's, you know, let's go to Atlanta, and, um, you know, at that time, this is hard to imagine, because Atlanta, even today, uh, qualifies as the national park based on a number of trees that, um, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Arthur Blank Bernie and I went to one store, and our partner, Pat, and other associates obviously went to the other store, and we agreed.
- ▶ 18:42 Guy Raz So Arthur Blank and his business partner, Bernie Marcus, opened their first two stores in the Atlanta area in 1979. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:21 Guy Raz Arthur, I want to ask you about how you and Bernie thought of the company, and you have to, of course, agree on what it's going to be, what the values of the company are. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:56 Arthur Blank And, and Bernie and I had always, you know, operated as a very close partnership. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:37 Guy Raz Like, did you and Bernie ever... 2 times in the scene