Fund manager,ous peter lynch, once said if you like a product, find out who the owner is because maybe the owner represents a good stock to buy. On that principle, when i heard my family kept going to a company in my neighborhood called fresh fields, an organic food chain, i began to say maybe here, so iinvestment looked into it, and it turns out fresh fields was looking for some capital. My firm invested. We love the company. Then along came a Company Called whole foods, who said they wanted to buy it. I initially said i didnt want to sell, but when i met john mackey, i realized he had a gifted vision of where this business was going to go, so we did sell, and it turned out he was right. He built an incredible chain, and i still go to the store almost every day. What compelled you to start safer way and then whole foods . You were at university of texas. And did you drop out to do this . John i dropped out of school, like, six times. I got 120 hours of electives. I just studied whatev
I asked him how much he wanted. He said 250. I said fine. I didnt negotiate with him. David the famous fund manager, peter lynch, once said if you like a product, find out who the owner is because maybe the owner represents a good stock to buy. On that principle, when i heard my family kept going to a company in my neighborhood called fresh fields, an organic food chain, i began to say maybe theres an investment here, so i looked into it, and it turns out fresh fields was looking for some capital. My firm invested. We love the company. Then along came a Company Called whole foods, who said they wanted to buy it. I initially said i didnt want to sell, but when i met john mackey, i realized he had a gifted vision of where this business was going to go, so we did sell, and it turned out he was right. He built an incredible chain, and i still go to the store almost every day. What compelled you to start safer way and then whole foods . You were at university of texas. And did you drop out
Forced to flee again. New coronavirus fears. Daily cases surge to their highest level nationwide in weeks. Well check in on schools trying to keep kids safe. Nothing more important than the kiddos. First here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The alleged conspirators are extremists who undertook a plot to kidnap a sitting governor. Investigators say they broke up a terror plot. The governor of michigan is blaming President Trump for inciting the men accused of trying to kidnap and possibly kill her. Hate groups heard the president s words not as a rebuke, but a rally cry, a call to action. President trumps doctors says he anticipates the president can safely resume Public Events on florida. We want to do a rally on saturday night in florida, maybe come back ad do one in pennsylvania. President trump is refusing to participate in the next debate after the commission announced it will be virtual. We dont know what the president is going to do. We have a category 3 communiti
Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Kids. This is our set up. Designed by chrissy. We started a pod. You know what a pod is . I did not know before this year. Its weird to go from parent to teacher. I have to keep reminding my kids, its not i hate you, daddy, its i hate you, mr. John. and on top of everything else, my wife and i are expecting our third child. Thats right. We took a look at 2020 and thought you know what might reduce our stress . A newborn baby. You know what the world needs right now . More people hey, speaking of big babies, did you hear the tape of the president saying he intentionally tried to downplay the virus even though he knew how serious it was . Well, here it is. Well, i think, bob, really, to be hone b. S ay. I still like playing it down. Yes. Because i dont want to create a panic. Yes, hed like us to believe antifa is flying across the country to kill us with soup cans but does not want us to panic. By the way, thats not some leaked audio tape. Trump said that on the record to bob woodward wh