Rewind by chapter
The Home Depot: chapters
Timestamps from the YouTube edition.
- Opening and the scale of the business
- Earlier careers in discount retail
- Handy Dan and its ownership
- The financing relationship begins
- Assembling an ownership stake
- Departure from Handy Dan
- Learning from a warehouse retailer
- A proposed early backer
- The HomeCo experience
- Sponsor message and enterprise customers
- Choosing Atlanta and the first store locations
- Opening the Atlanta stores
- Listing shares and expanding
- Expansion beyond Georgia
- How the operating model fits together
- Hiring people with trade experience
- Employee ownership and incentives
- Growth and organisational strain
- Local buying and coordination
- Planning for a new chief executive