Farnam Street
Mastering the best of what other people have already figured out
My guest today is John Mackey, the co-founder of Whole Foods Market, where he was CEO from 1980 to 2022.
We discuss how he turned hostile customers into evangelists, survived multiple extinction-level threats, and built a mission-driven billion-dollar business without compromising its soul. We also discussed the Amazon acquisition.
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Mackey is the author of Conscious Capitalism.
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