Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…Wow. Today we will tell the story of how it happened. It is an unlikely story of two guys who got unceremoniously fired from their old jobs with little savings and no retirement funds, who then had a revolutionary idea to build a home improvement store in giant warehouses, five times more square footage than any other hardware store at the time, which seemed risky at best, unthinkable maybe. And we'll try to answer the question, how and why did that idea become so large? I mean, of course it's bigger than Lowe's, but also IKEA, Trader Joe's. It's bigger than nearly all dedicated grocery store chains. And today they employ an astonishing 470,000 people. That's more than any big tech company in the US except for Amazon, more than any bank in the world, more than almost every car company, hotel chain. More employees than any restaurant chain also, including Starbucks. So listeners, this is the story of Home Depot. Woo, let's go.…

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