Bernie Marcus is one of the founders of Home Depot, one of the most remarkable businesses to spring to life in the last 30 years. He and his co-founders, Arthur Blank and Ken Langone started from nothing back in the late ‘70’s and built a huge, successful business that redefined an entire industry. In short, Marcus is the sort of man you would want to listen to about creating jobs, since he had a big hand in creating over 300,000 of them.
Being the evil rich man that he is (he’s worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 billion), a few years ago he single-handedly kicked in $200 million to the city of Atlanta to build what is now the world’s largest aquarium and has also signed on with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates at The Giving Pledge, (read his nasty letter at the link) where he has pledged to give most of his fortune to their foundation upon his death.
Mr. Marcus was on CNBC today and, well, he ain’t happy. This is a little over 15 minutes long and worth every minute. (I tried mightily with my puny HTML skilz to embed the video here, but it is apparently the video that will not be embedded.)
Are you listening up there in your Ivory Tower, Mr. President?
Friday, September 17, 2010
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