Company · Retail · founded 1978
The Home Depot
American home improvement retailer, the largest in the United States, founded in 1978 and headquartered in Cobb County, Georgia. Ken Langone organized the financing for founders Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank.
Of the 1 person here linked to The Home Depot, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 1 of them also appear at General Electric. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
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1 person at The Home Depot
Investor Past
Role
Organized the financing for founders Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank, 1978
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia says he organized financing for the founders; the 5 percent stake in the profile comes from other sources already cited there. Whether he still holds shares is not established, and the Home Depot page dates the company to 1978.
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Ken Langone
Co-founder and financier of The Home Depot; founder of Invemed Associates; namesake of NYU Langone Health
working-class · outsider · graduate degree
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