David Rosenthal
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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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Yep.
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But you needed to be, well, I was going to say crazy, but you needed to have vision to do this.
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I mean, it's IPOing as a four-store hardware chain in Atlanta.
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right.
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This is not Anthropic here where everybody knows them and they're giant.
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So after the IPO, they go to Florida, goes great.
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Next, they go to Texas by actually acquiring a copycat chain that had sprung up called Bowater.
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That was a bad idea and cost the company a lot of time remaking those stores, but they turn it around.
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They're successful in Texas.
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Then they go to the West Coast.
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They go back to California.
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They beat Handy Dan.
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They go to the Northeast, then national, rest of the country.
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The company is just like on a tear.
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Yep.
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And then quickly after that, in 1986, they hit a billion dollars in sales.
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With 60 stores.
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They don't stop there.
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In 1989, they pass Lowe's to become the largest home improvement retailer in America.
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Also, in 1989, Handy Dan goes out of business.
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