John Mackey
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We don't have to do anything else.
Let's just live the good life.
And I said, Mark, I don't want to do that.
That's going to be boring.
I don't want to do that.
I want to build a company.
I want to open Whole Foods markets everywhere.
I want to help people eat healthier all around the country.
And he says, that's ridiculous.
We'll probably fail.
He ended up quitting.
A few years later, we'd gotten up to four stores and we were struggling because the new stores didn't start as well.
And so we had some growing pains, you might say.
And he was so disgusted with me, he quit.
Sold all his stock for a couple hundred thousand bucks and opened up a pizza restaurant.
That was not a good financial decision on his part.
Yeah.
So I am CEO.
I own about 70% of the stock from the capital that I put in, but it is in LA and I'm in Austin.
So Michael Robertson is the operator that's there running it.