Built from Scratch

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• 23:48 · YouTube

  The Home Depot

  The hosts introduce the book before recounting Langone’s conversation with a church shareholder.

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  The hosts recount Langone’s meeting with Marcus, his Handy Dan share purchases and a church shareholder’s decision to retain its stake. →

• 30:38 · YouTube

  The Home Depot

  The hosts attribute the share-price negotiation anecdote to this book.

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  The hosts recount negotiations over Langone’s Handy Dan stake and introduce the subsequent dismissal of Marcus, Blank and Ron Brill. →

• 44:50 · YouTube

  The Home Depot

  The book is named as the source for the Cadillac disagreement in the proposed Perot financing.

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  The hosts explain the proposed store’s capital needs, broad selection and customer education, then introduce the attempted Ross Perot financing. →

• 1:23:09 · YouTube

  The Home Depot

  The hosts introduce a passage about winning suppliers over while discussing the founders’ unusual ability to assemble the business.

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  The hosts describe national expansion and argue that persuasive supplier relationships helped Home Depot operate beyond its initial financial scale. →

• 1:49:53 · YouTube

  The Home Depot

  The hosts refer to the founders’ response to discrimination claims in their memoir; the mention does not establish the allegations or the response as true.

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  After the Anthropic promotion, the hosts describe growth in professional customers and Marcus’s handover of the chief executive role to Blank. →

• 3:12:33 · YouTube

  The Home Depot

  The hosts contrast the book’s account of loading goods at the front with their account of later store operations.

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  The hosts discuss the founders’ later interests and Langone’s long holding periods, then question which early operating practices should survive growth. →

Bibliographic sources

• Built from Scratch — bibliographic reference ↗ (external site) — Penguin Random House. Checked 2026-10-23.

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