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Pat Farrah is an American former retail executive and is also a co-founder of Home Depot.With a background in merchandising Farrah started his own big box home improvement retailer called Homeco in the late 1970s. At the time Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank wanted to start a company eventually became Home Depot. On seeing Homeco Marcus realized that Farrah shared the same vision he had for a big box retailer. Marcus and Blank looked into buying Homeco but the business had financing issues.