Bernard Marcus, the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot who has for years been an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, has died at 95.

After getting fired together from a hardware business in the 1970s, Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank set out to build their own retail chain. They started with a few stores in Atlanta and built Home Depot into a national powerhouse that made them both billionaires.

Bernard Marcus, who turned a single Atlanta home improvement store he co-founded into a global company, has died at the age of 95.