The Home Depot
also referred to as: home depot
11 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 28, 2017 by Arthur Blank · said 109 times in 51 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (49), Jason Wersland (6), Arthur Blank (6), Alejandro Velez (5), Tom Szaky (4), Curt Richardson (4), Stacy Brown (2), Randy Hetrick (2)
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2026 13 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store
- Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
- Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
- YETI: Roy and Ryan Seiders. How Two Brothers Turned a $400 Cooler Into a $2 Billion Brand
- Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
- Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
- Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- Meridith Baer Home: Meridith Baer. She Started Over at 50 and Put Home Staging on the Map.
- Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 16 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Therabody: Jason Wersland
- Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann
- Noosa Yoghurt: Koel Thomae
- Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
- Black Diamond Equipment: Peter Metcalf
- Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
- Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2021 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2018 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
2017 37 mentions in 6 episodes 6 per episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about The Home Depot, oldest first
Dec 28, 2017
Dec 28, 2017 negative
Blank: Young executives overworking will become strangers to their families
“Too many young executives, men or women, they, their attitude is that we gotta work now, work hard, and, you know, put my career in, on fifth gear, and go, go, go, and so when you return home in 10 years, you're not gonna recognize your kids, and your spouse i…”
Dec 28, 2017 negative
Dec 28, 2017
Blank: Home Depot founders spent 75% of early time on store floor
“I probably spent 75% of my time, as did Bernie, as did really most of our associates, on the floor of the store, finding out from customers what is it they like, what didn't like, and we kept changing the mix, adding things, taking things off, changing prices,…”
Dec 28, 2017
Blank: Early competitors believed Home Depot's business model would fail
“Every competitor came into our stores and visited us and said, I mean, these, I can't use bad words here because this is like kind of a live radio thing, but these, ah, whatever you want to call us, they're crazy. The stores are much too big. Prices are much t…”
Dec 28, 2017 positive
Blank: Home Depot concept arose by defining an uncompetitive retail model
“Bernie had said, well, you know, if we were ever to leapfrog our own business, Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers, what kind of home improvement center store could we not compete against? And so we said we could never compete against the big warehouse, no fril…”
Dec 28, 2017 negative
Dec 28, 2017 positive
Aug 17, 2023 neutral
Dec 29, 2025 negative
SkinnyDipped founders failed to coat almonds using Home Depot paint sprayers
“So we went to Home Depot, we bought a paint sprayer, We filled the paint sprayer with chocolate, and the chocolate would start to harden, so you couldn't actually get it to work, so we had to MacGyver some heat guns next to the paint sprayer to try to keep the…”
Jun 18, 2026 positive
Visram: Plantamica Must Raise Venture Capital Rather Than Bootstrapping
“If you're, like, really in this and you believe and it's your hundred percent thing, then you have to raise money from investors and you kind of go big or go home, is my feeling. I don't think you start this one on a bootstrappy, small way because ultimately y…”