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John Mackey: How Whole Foods Grew From One Store to $22 Billion in Sales | E187

John Mackey: How Whole Foods Grew From One Store to $22 Billion in Sales | E18712 May57 min

What does it really take to build a company from one store in Austin, Texas into Whole Foods Market, a global brand with more than 540 stores, $22 billion in annual sales, and a $13.7 billion acquisition by Amazon? John Mackey, co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, joins Randall Kaplan to reveal the hard-earned lessons behind entrepreneurship, resilience, fear, failure, raising capital, work ethic, conscious capitalism, and the life-changing moments that shaped one of America’s most iconi...