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John Mackey — college dropout, counterculture idealist — opened a small natural foods store in Austin in 1980. A flood nearly destroyed it in year one. The community and employees rebuilt it without being asked. He pioneered 'conscious capitalism.'
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Mackey: Whole Foods wasn't built to make money — it was built to prove that business could serve a higher purpose. Stakeholder capitalism (employees, customers, suppliers, community, shareholders — in that order) produces better results than shareholder-only capitalism.
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