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Home Depot’s founders brought retail experience

Ben Gilbert notes that Home Depot’s founders came from retail—not contracting or hammer manufacturing.

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The Home Depot

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of the people who would go on to found Home Depot, none of them are like general contractors or grew up in the hammer manufacturing business. It's people who just knew retail.

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