Richard Baker
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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one of the largest private owners of shopping centers in the United States.
Let's leave it at that.
sure so basically i think of myself as a small-time entrepreneur and i just did a lot of deals over and over and over so when you add it all up it turned out to be a big thing uh i started out uh working with my father in the real estate space and um
there was this company that had no stores east of the Mississippi called Walmart.
It's a long time ago.
And I said, wow, I should go visit these people in Bentonville, Arkansas.
So I got on a plane and I sat in the offices for two days of the, uh, of Walmart.
Their real estate offices were like trailers, literally trailers.
And I ended up meeting them and, uh,
Uh, we had a good time and got along and we developed a relationship, 21 year old Richard Baker and the team at Walmart.
And eventually I started developing Walmart anchored shopping centers throughout the Eastern portion of the United States.
And I ended up building 50 Walmarts, 50 Walmart shopping centers of which we own all of them still today.
And we leased them the properties and all of those development deals required zero cash.
So.
Uh, we structured every deal where we, uh, were able to borrow all the money from the bank.
So no partners, no investors.
Um, and we use the leverage in order to do that.
And that's one of the themes that we talk about a lot today.
And then, uh, from that, I went on to acquire sort of end of life department store chains.
So imagine Lord and Taylor in the United States, Hudson Bay in Canada, Germany, Belgium, uh, the Netherlands, um,
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