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 to do this . John i dropped out of school, like, six times. I got 120 hours of electives. I just studied whatever i w
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, and organic food chain, i began to say maybe its an investment year, 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 did not 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, enter 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. Did you drop out to do this . I dropped out of school, like, six times. I got 120 hours of electives. I just studied what
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 to do this . John i dropped out of school, like, six times. I got 120 hours of electiv
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. It was a very good investment. We love the company. We love the food. Then along came a Company Called whole foods, who said they wanted to buy it. I initially said i did not 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
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