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Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s $15bn bet on the environment
Oliver Balch, Financial Times
All eyes in Builders Vision’s Chicago office, in the fashionable Fulton Market district, are trained on a large screen showing a coiled serpent eating its own tail. On a video link, the day’s keynote speaker is enthusing how, contrary to first impressions, the ouroboros’s self-destruction is actually part of its eternal recreation.
From their seats in the 16th-floor office’s lounge area, the audience follows the speaker’s every word, lapping up her invocation to “rewild our imaginations”, nodding at her assertion that “every tradition was once an innovation”.
The workshop participants all seem cut from the same cloth: bright-eyed, luxe sneakers and slacks, Silicon Valley refitted for the Midwest. You would be hard-pressed to pick out the billionaire.
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