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- Bernie Marcus was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1929 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents.
- He and Arthur Blank co-founded The Home Depot in 1978, and now the company has 2,300 stores.
- The former first CEO of Home Depot has decried younger generations as being "woke" and "lazy."
Editor's note: Taylor Nicole Rogers wrote a previous version of this story.
Marcus was born in 1929 in Newark, New Jersey, a city roughly 15 miles west of New York City.
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