John Mackey
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 11, 2024 by John Mackey · across every show →
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John Mackey delayed Whole Foods' Amazon integration until his retirement
“In other ways, I held it back, and once I was gone, then they could move in the directions that it needed to evolve in. In some cases, that's maybe a little tighter a little closer to Amazon. They're a little more integrated into Amazon. I held them back from …”
Jun 11, 2024 negative
Mackey: CEOs should stay out of politics to avoid hurting their business
“So the short answer, Jeff, in a way, is I think you should stay out of politics if you're a CEO. You can obviously have your personal opinions, but you're always going to be seen as speaking for the company, and if you do controversial things, you're going to …”
Jun 11, 2024
Mackey: Safer Way launched on $45,000 from friends and family
“Renee's family and friends, my family and friends, and yes, my dad, I didn't have any money, my dad loaned me 10,000 dollars for my share of the investment at five percent interest. So, so that's how we got started. We needed 50, but we only had, we only were …”
Jun 11, 2024 positive
Mackey: Maximizing shareholder value requires optimizing the entire stakeholder system
“If you cheat any of your constituencies, any of your stakeholders, or try to sell them short, you can get away with it in the short term. In the long run, feedback loops are created, and your business sub-optimizes. So, I just realized to create the most value…”
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Psychedelics shifted John Mackey's trajectory away from traditional professions
“I think because I experimented with psychedelic drugs back in my, ah, early twenties that, that took me off that path, and I began to see, I became a seeker, I was looking for the meaning of life, and I studied, I went back and forth between two universities, …”
Jun 11, 2024
Mackey: 350,000 people boycotted Whole Foods after 2009 WSJ op-ed
“We were, had protests all around the country, and 350,000 people, and within a couple of weeks signed a Facebook petition to boycott Whole Foods Market. Hundreds of letters were sent to our board of directors demanding that I be fired.”
Jun 11, 2024