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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There are these four business and retail superheroes that come together and, you know, save.
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Well, they don't save the world, but they save customers a lot of money.
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Yes, yes.
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So we start first with Home Depot's founding CEO, Bernie Marcus.
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Bernie comes from a poor family of Jewish immigrants in the rough neighborhoods of Newark, New Jersey in the 1930s during the Depression.
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Bernie was actually in a gang as a kid, which I discovered hilariously reading Bernie's book, Kick Up Some Dust, the foreword of which was written by his good friend, the rapper Pitbull.
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Like amazingly, the two of them like bonded and became good friends later in Bernie's life.
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So Bernie, despite his rough upbringing and gang experience on the streets of Newark, he's super smart and he ends up being the first person in his family to go to college.
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He goes to Rutgers down the road from Newark there in New Jersey for college.
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And his dream is to go on to medical school and become a psychiatrist.
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That doesn't work out because his family doesn't have any money to send him to medical school.
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So instead, he becomes a pharmacist.
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That quickly leads him to becoming a concessionaire in a New York area discount store.
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Concessionaire like a store within a store.
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Hmm.
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This begins Bernie's retail education.
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And from there, he would go on to join the New York area discount chain Two Guys.
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Ultimately, this leads him a couple of years later in his 30s to an executive role at the Dalen Corporation, which was a retail conglomerate based in Los Angeles with a whole bunch of different stores.
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So we're now here in the 1960s.
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This is an exciting time for retail.
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