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Founders: #6 Sam Walton

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[00:00:00] I want to talk to you about the autobiography of Sam Walton. It's called Made in America. And this book was published about a year before he died. So he was suffering from a rare form of bone cancer. And he knew he was going to die, so he decided to put all his thoughts down on paper. So I want to jump right into the book. If you've heard previous episodes, then you know that we have this section that I affectionately call critics don't know shit. [00:00:32] And I do that because in almost every, and actually in every biography, there's always people around the entrepreneurs…

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