John Mackey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's very candid, very honest.
and very authentic.
But we didn't want to sell Amazon.
It's just that Amazon was the best solution to a problem we had.
And that problem was we had shareholder activists take a large stake in the company.
I met with these guys.
They were very unreasonable people.
I'll take my bad language that they were using out of it.
And
But- No, you don't have to.
I met with them and they basically said, they showed this PowerPoint, which had a bunch of bullshit in it.
And I said, well, I could get a copy of the PowerPoint because I think there's a few mistakes.
And they says, no, we're not going to give you a copy of the PowerPoint.
This is Jana Partners.
It's the name of this private equity firm.
And I said, well, why not?
And he says-
Yeah, we don't want to.
I said, but I know, but there are a lot of mistakes there.
We don't care.