BERNIE MARCUS co-founded Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, and served as its inaugural CEO and as its chairman until his retirement in 2002. Over the last several decades, he has redirected his entrepreneurial spirit toward hundreds of charitable endeavors to solve big problems. He has given away more than $2 billion and is a signatory of the Giving Pledge.
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When a friend told Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank that 'you've just been hit in the ass by a golden horseshoe,' they thought he was crazy. After all, both had just been fired. What the friend, Ken Langone, meant was that they now had the opportunity to cr... SEE MORE