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Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 0:27 Shane Parrish Kenny, you told me I would get fired, and it happened. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:26 Shane Parrish And a man named Ken Langone had recently bought up nearly all of that 19%. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:47 Shane Parrish So he tried to buy out Ken starting at 10 dollars, then 12, and then 14. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:33 Shane Parrish After his call with Ken, Bernie had to call one other person, Saul Price, and if you listened to our Saul Price episode, you've heard a little bit of this story.
- ▶ 21:33 Shane Parrish Ken Langan knew one person with that kind of money, Ross Perot. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:56 Shane Parrish Ken Langone went to work, convincing 40 investors, many of whom who'd made money on Handy Dan's stock to put up 25,000 dollars each.
- ▶ 27:00 Shane Parrish So Ken assured them it would be fine.
- ▶ 39:21 Shane Parrish And Ken believed him.
- ▶ 53:30 Shane Parrish Bernie became a billionaire many times over, and so too did Arthur and Ken.