Founders: #418 Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
What I learned from rereading Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike for the 3rd or 4th time. Made possible by: Ramp: https://ramp.com Axon by Applovin: https://axon.ai/founders Vanta: https://vanta.com/founders
[00:00] A: I was up before the others, before the birds, before the sun. I drank a cup of coffee, wolfed down a piece of toast, put on my clothes and laced up my shoes. Then I slept quietly out the back door. There were no cars, no people, no signs of life. I was all alone, the world to myself. What a beautiful place to be from, I thought. I was proud to call Oregon my home. But I felt a stab of regret too. Oregon struck some people as the kind of place where nothing big had ever happened. If we Oregonians were famous for anything, it was an old, old trail that we had to blaze to get here.…
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