Walmart is the world's largest retailer by revenue, operating a global network of supercenters, discount stores, neighborhood markets, Sam's Club warehouse clubs and a fast-growing e-commerce business. Founded in 1962 by Sam Walton in Rogers, Arkansas, the company built its scale on an 'everyday low prices' model powered by a highly efficient supply chain. Today it blends roughly 10,500 stores worldwide with digital commerce, retail advertising, a growing marketplace and AI-driven shopping tools, serving hundreds of millions of customers each week while employing about 2.1 million people.
Robby Knight is the co-founder and CEO of evermore (formerly Soda Health), a healthtech company that turns supplemental health benefits into a Smart Benefits platform connecting Medicare Advantage members, health plans, and retailers like CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger. A social worker by training who spent nearly eight years architecting consumer health at Walmart, Knight built the company on a simple frustration: people's first-order needs (food, OTC medicine, transportation) were being met through a patchwork of inefficient programs. evermore has raised roughly $100 million, including a $50M Series B led by General Catalyst in December 2024.