{"id":59,"date":"2006-09-28T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=59"},"modified":"2007-09-23T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T01:01:59","slug":"austin-ligon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/austin-ligon","title":{"rendered":"Austin Ligon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Austin Ligon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/AustinLigon.jpg\" \/>Jessica speaks with Austin Ligon, the co-founder of the nation&#8217;s most popular used car superstore.<\/p>\n<p>Austin started Carmax with the electronics giant Circuit  City, who was looking for a new business opportunity in the mid 1990s.  When one thinks of the used car industry, the words &#8220;corruption,&#8221; and &#8220;seedy car salesman&#8221; come to mind; but CarMax has started a used car revolution by offering fixed prices, a huge selection, easy shopping, generous return privileges and guaranteed quality. Austin explains how CarMax managed to beat the fierce competition in the early days, and emerge as the market leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica speaks with Austin Ligon, the co-founder of the nation&#8217;s most popular used car superstore. Austin started Carmax with the electronics giant Circuit City, who was looking for a new business opportunity in the mid 1990s. When one thinks of the used car industry, the words &#8220;corruption,&#8221; and &#8220;seedy car salesman&#8221; come to mind; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}