Richard Baker
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1,143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More importantly, you can hear other people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, so anyway, we're looking, we're, we're, we're just trying to be helpful, have fun, create a community.
We were.
There's nothing like this in the world.
This is a Cornell-based program that's authenticated by Cornell University.
I'm teaching it at Cornell.
We have a club, a complex at Cornell University, and we are opening this up to people, anyone in the world who wants to learn about being an entrepreneur, and we're going to create communities so people can work together in order to be successful.
Okay, so I owned Saks.
I bought Saks for $2.6 billion in 2013.
Okay.
There are industries in the United States that have tremendous headwinds and there's rational reasons and irrational reasons, whether it's media companies, magazine companies, retail, all kinds of businesses, tremendous headwinds, and many of them aren't going to make it and or they're going to be reorganized.
So in 2013, when I bought Saks, I had a plan.
The plan was immediately to roll up Barney's, Saks, Neiman's, and Bergdorf Goodman into one company in 2013, not wait a decade to get there.
Unfortunately, through a whole variety of reasons, it took me a lot longer to get to where I needed to go.
During the process, Neiman Marcus went bankrupt during the pandemic.
So that created a lot of problems.
We went into bankruptcy in January, Sachs Global, after having merged Neiman Sachs and Bergdorf's together.
We went in in order to protect...
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