714: From $0 to $5 BILLION - The Blueprint for Building Billion-Dollar Startups | Marc Lore

Marc Lore walked into his boss's office with a newborn at home, a huge salary, and no business idea - and quit anyway to become an entrepreneur. That instinct built one of the great modern track records in commerce. He sold diapers.com to Amazon, turned a pitch deck into a $3.3 billion Walmart acquisition in under two years, became Walmart's e-commerce CEO, bought the Minnesota Timberwolves, launched a next-gen restaurant company called Wonder, and is now building Telosa - a city from scratch for 5 million people in the desert. All from a kid who told his grandma he wanted to be a farmer because farmers "grow stuff from nothing."

In this interview, Marc breaks down the conviction it takes to sell a product below cost until you win, the hiring and comp framework that let him scale companies fast, and the counterintuitive negotiating lesson behind two of his biggest deals.

What you'll learn in this interview:

• Why he quit a high-paying job with a newborn and no idea - and the mentor who funded him anyway

• The diapers.com thesis: why selling below cost was the whole strategy, and where most founders lose their nerve

• What going inside Amazon taught him - that there's no right culture, only a consistent one

• How growing through Amazon's brutal 30%-off diaper war is what made them overpay for the company

• The transparent comp system: same pay per level, Black-Scholes-priced options, and how it let him hire fast

• Why selling to Walmart felt completely different to selling to Amazon - keys to the kingdom vs. sit in the corner

• The negotiating masterclass: why knowing when NOT to negotiate landed both the Timberwolves and Wonder

• Inside Wonder: 17 restaurant chains in Mercedes vans that cook and deliver at a tenth of a restaurant's CapEx

• Why conversational commerce kills the search engine - and how he's skating to where the puck is going