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The $500 Million Productivity Bet That Changed Everything
In the inaugural episode of The Productivity Podcast, hosts Lucas and Luna dive into a single, defining moment in economic history: the 1995-2005 productivity boom driven by corporate IT investment. They zero in on one company—Walmart—and one specific decision: the $500 million investment in its retail-link supply chain system in the early 1990s. Lucas explains how that bet reshaped not just Walmart's margins but the entire U.S. productivity statistics, showing how a single firm's efficiency gains can ripple through GDP data. Luna pushes back on whether IT spending alone was the…
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