Stuart Moldaw

Stuart Moldaw possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply elite background in advanced retail venture capital, complex mass-market merchandising, and massive-scale corporate turnarounds. Operating as a fiercely respected Silicon Valley investor who actively incubated highly disruptive retail concepts, this intensely commercial foundation provided the exact strategic and financial leverage required to successfully pioneer the incredibly massive off-price Ross empire.

Stuart Moldaw was an absolutely legendary American retail venture capitalist, fiercely visionary off-price pioneer, and the profoundly influential corporate architect fundamentally responsible for transforming Ross Stores into a massive, globally dominant off-price retail monopoly. Operating as an incredibly successful retail entrepreneur who had previously founded Pic-A-Dilly and Country Casuals, Moldaw aggressively recognized the massive, completely untapped potential of the off-price retail model. In 1982, he relentlessly partnered with Don Rowlett to completely acquire the six-store Ross chain from Bill Isackson. By fiercely pivoting the entire business model to strictly off-price apparel—selling massive volumes of name-brand overstock at incredibly steep discounts—his absolutely rigorous strategic leadership completely revolutionized American discount retailing. His massive corporate execution permanently established the multi-billion dollar Ross Dress for Less empire.