Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook and the other tech billionaires who crowded onto the stage at the Capitol for President Donald Trump’s inauguration have all subsequently come up big losers, in terms of both wealth and esteem.
One business leader in attendance who sat out of camera range has since done considerable good for his company and the country and therefore, by his measure, for himself.
Doug McMillon was 17 when he started out at Walmart, and happened to rear end his boss’s car when arriving for his first day stocking shelves. He is now 58 and for more than a decade has been the CEO of the nation’s biggest retailer, with $648 billion in sales last year.
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