John Mackey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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to say that it was time to go.
It's time to do the next thing, which by the way, leads to love life, right?
Right.
So I call up Dave and I go over it with him and say, you know, I think it's time for me to go.
I think it's time for me to leave.
And I'll fulfill my commitment I have on the contract.
I'll finish out.
So I basically gave one year's notice.
And that last year at Whole Foods was arguably one of the best years of my whole career there because I had the new successor already picked, Jason Buechel.
Amazon loves Jason.
That's who they would have picked anyway.
And I'd already been mentoring Jason anyway.
He was my chief operating officer.
He'd been the chief technology officer.
He spoke Amazon speak, so to speak.
Right.
Wow.
So I basically, for the next year, let him run the company anyway.
And I just made a grand tour.