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0Bernie Marcus co-founded Home Depot and served as its first CEO.
This is the wild and crazy story of how he and his co-founders got fired and went on to build one of the best-performing businesses in history.
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Approximate Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:00) Part 1: An Accidental Miracle
(09:29) Part 2: A Golden Horseshoe Kick
(25:49) Part 3: Building From Nothing
(38:53) Part 4: Orange Everywhere
(49:40) Part 5: The Legacy
(54:17) Lessons
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Sources:
Marcus, Bernie, and Arthur Blank. Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion. New York: Crown Business, 1999.
Best Practice Institute. "Bernie Marcus Interview." YouTube video. www.youtube.com.
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