Texas, every mention
3 scenes (said by John Mackey) · ← back to Texas
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Texas comes up
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 6:05 John Mackey Buddy I play basketball with, pick up basketball with, and, and, uh, he'd inherit a lot of money from his parents who died, and he, uh, he put in like a 100,000 bucks, and, or no, 50,000 dollars, and then we got more money from the…
- ▶ 11:00 John Mackey Yeah, so nine months after we opened up that really successful store, the whole first Whole Foods Market in 1980, um, when we were building it, the owner of the building, uh, this Texas good old boy named Ben Powell, he let me know that…
- ▶ 1:26:29 John Mackey In the context of what it was like in the United States, 200 years ago, or 170 years ago, or even when I was a little boy growing up in Houston, Texas, and they had Jim Crow laws.