John Mackey is Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods Market (which he co-founded in 1980), a $5.7 billion sales Fortune 500 company, and a "Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For" every year since 1998. Whole Foods is one of the top 12 supermarket companies in America and the world's largest natural foods retail chain. Mackey was named the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2003. Mackey is a strong believer in FLOW principles, including free market principles and empowerment management.
Mackey has lived on a vegetarian co-op. He and his wife, Deborah, both practice meditation and yoga, and spend as much time as they can on their 720 acre ranch west of Austin. Mackey is a voracious book reader and participates in two monthly book clubs. He is always up for a lively debate about politics, economics, history, or sports. Mackey considers himself vegan (since late 2003), though he eats eggs from his personal flock of free-range chickens.In a debate in Reason Magazine between Mackey, Milton Friedman, and T.J. Rodgers, Mackey says that he is a free market libertarian.
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