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
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
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