Arthur Blank was in his 30s when a doctor gave him essentially a mandate, changing his life.
Long before Blank became the billionaire owner of the Atlanta Falcons and founder of The Home Depot, he worked for a company called Daylin. Part of his role as an executive was to fly from Georgia to San Diego for a physical at the Scripps Clinic. As he went through the process of the physical, the last meeting was with a cardiologist.
Blank knew his family history. His father died of a heart attack at age 44 when Blank was 15.