The Home Depot, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where The Home Depot comes up

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▶ 43:00 Shane Parrish Explain the let's go to Home Depot song to me. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:39 Shane Parrish 18 months later, the Home Depot opened. 3 times in the scene
▶ 17:05 Shane Parrish Bernie had already been imagining what would become the Home Depot.
▶ 21:56 Shane Parrish For two million dollars, Perot would own 70% of Home Depot.
▶ 31:46 Shane Parrish So the primary ad announcing the grand opening of Home Depot on June, 2219 79 was going to run the day before in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 4 times in the scene
▶ 34:06 Shane Parrish The Home Depot wasn't supposed to be a supermarket or a department store. 6 times in the scene
▶ 38:54 Shane Parrish Bernie wanted the Home Depot to be the first truly national home improvement brand in America. 12 times in the scene
▶ 45:33 Shane Parrish He wore plaid shirts and jeans, the typical DIYer, doing jobs around his house, and soon he was wearing a Home Depot hat and apron, adding personality to their ads the way Mickey Mouse did for Disney. 16 times in the scene
▶ 50:33 Shane Parrish By the mid-nineteen nineties, the Home Depot had become one of America's most admired companies. 3 times in the scene
▶ 53:39 Shane Parrish More importantly, thousands of regular Home Depot associates became millionaires through stock options, the lumber workers, the cashiers who joined early. 4 times in the scene
▶ 55:34 Shane Parrish 18 months later, Home Depot opens. 4 times in the scene

▶ 0:40 Shane Parrish So did the founders of Home Depot.
▶ 26:13 Shane Parrish Bernie Marcus would take these lessons to build Home Depot.
▶ 36:11 Shane Parrish Bernie takes notes, and one year later, Home Depot opens.
▶ 41:58 Shane Parrish What's Home Depot?
▶ 55:31 Shane Parrish Home Depot was born.

▶ 14:40 Adam Carr So then you go to people like, you know, Saul Price, like he, the Price Club, I mean, the people that he laid the blueprint for from Jim Senegal with Costco to Bernie Marcus with Home Depot to Sam Walton, who's laid a bigger blueprint than…

▶ 1:27:03 Jerry Colonna We have two fountains on our property around the house, and one kept shorting out, and I went to Home Depot, and I got a new plug, and I found the short in the wire, and I rewired that, and I put it all together, and the fountain's now…

▶ 1:17:42 Shane Parrish It's actually more expensive to go cut it down yourself than it is to show up at Home Depot and buy a pre-cut real tree.

▶ 13:57 Ryan Holiday I remember, like, my wife makes fun of me, because, like, a couple years ago, we were, like, walking into, like, a Home Depot or something, and I was like, oh, they're hiring, and she was like, are you looking for a job?

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