John Mackey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So they're $4 or $5 billion bigger.
I'm pretty sure if Amazon wanted to sell Whole Foods, we'd pay $13.7 billion for it.
It's probably worth, I don't know, probably almost twice that much, I bet.
Are you a billionaire now?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
So something people don't know about me is just simply that I'm a wealthy guy.
I have enough money.
But I stopped taking any compensation back in 2006.
I gave all of my stock options to our foundations.
I never took a salary after that.
I had enough.
No, no, that's inaccurate.
That was ChatGPT.
We capped ChatGPT.
What did I know?
I know.
We capped the salary, the compensation anyone could make.
By the time I left, it was about 13 times the average pay was the most anyone could make.
So I think the very best paid people at Whole Foods were making close to a million dollars a year.
I was still making $1 a year.