David Rosenthal
speaker
40,888 appearances
64 recordings
4 series
first heard Aug 2022
last heard 14 Sep
David Rosenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Isn't that nuts?
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I thought
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Domino's, Monsters is up
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became like multimillionaires.
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Yes.
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Yeah, I mean, Home Depot is crazy because Bernie Marcus was the CEO and sort of the primary person, but it was this team and they all had different superpowers.
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So it was Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, who owns the Atlanta Falcons today, a guy named Pat Farah, who was the merchandiser, and then Ken Langone.
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Some folks listening might know who Ken Langone is.
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He was an investment banker, but he was one of the co-founders.
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And, like, it was all part of this strategy, right?
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So, like, Ken took the company public when it was basically a year old, two years old, at this tiny valuation because he could.
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And then he helped architect.
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$32 million.
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There's a
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and it almost happened with the vc dynamic almost happened with home depot because ken langone got famous because he took ross perot's company public like
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so when he and Bernie and Arthur were starting Home Depot, Ken took him to Ross and was like, oh, we'll just get my buddy Ross to finance this thing.
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And Ross, there was a deal on the table.
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Ross Perot was going to own 70% of Home Depot and bankroll the whole thing at 70%.
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Which today would be worth about $230 billion.
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And the whole thing blew up because Ross tried to dictate the type of car that Bernie and Arthur were going to drive.
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