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Sunday, January 17, 2010

John Mackey: The bread and butter of Whole Foods

A great read from the recent New Yorker magazine.
John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods, is a complex fellow. Eccentric; prone to shooting from the hip; thru-hiker of the Appalachian Trail; a Vegan who believes it'd be career suicide if he quit selling meat; a capitalist with a hippie bent; outspoken about outrageous compensation of most U.S. execs.
One of the most interesting factoids: A Whole Foods will come to your town/neighborhood is based on the number of college graduates within a 16-minute drive.
(More eccentricity: Not 15 or 20.)
Enjoy.

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