Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant

One of the big decisions we made was there was a location in Los Angeles that I fell in love with. And we sat down as a group and said, Okay, can we do this? You know, the furthest we gone to Chicago, we don't know what to do. And we just said, no. Well not Ready.

And To me it's an interesting point of view because People remember the decisions that they made where they did something? Sometimes the decisions you made where you did nothing? It's the most important decision in the business.

Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built. I'm Guy Roz and on the show today how John Gabbert left his family's furniture business to branch out on his own with room and board. A national brand that was inspired by

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