I just finished reading “Shoe Dog” a biography written by Phil Knight. Phil Knight is a American business magnate and philanthropist. Native to Oregon, He is the co-founder and chairman of Nike. Inc. He previously was the CEO of Nike until he step down as chairman. This book is told in first person about about him building Nike from the ground up and the legal problems he went through.
A big part of his early years at Nike was his track coach Bill Bowerman, Bill Bowerman was also a co-founder of Nike. Over the years Bill trained 31 olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record holders, 22 NCAA champions, and 16 sub-4 minute milers. He was always tinkering with his athletes shoes. He would tear them apart and build them up again, he would try putting his own inventions in the shoes which would either make the athlete break …show more content…
When Phil graduated he decided that he wanted to make his own shoe company so he travelled around the world to places like Greece and Vietnam and then japan to seek help from popular shoe company named Tiger. After several meeting with with the CEO he agreed to let Phil sell his shoes in America. It wasn’t a glamour job by any means he often sold shoes out the back of his trunk in the rainy winters of Oregon but he was starting his dream and that all that mattered to him. Shipments from Japan all of the sudden came to a halt and he wasn’t making money anymore even though he still had a contract with them. With all communications cut off and no shoes coming in he decide to breach his contract and make his own shoes. He contacted his track coach Bill and asked if he would like to help him start up his own company. Bill agreed and so with him and a small group of friends they went off and made their own shoe brand. Like I said befor Bill was always
A big part of his early years at Nike was his track coach Bill Bowerman, Bill Bowerman was also a co-founder of Nike. Over the years Bill trained 31 olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record holders, 22 NCAA champions, and 16 sub-4 minute milers. He was always tinkering with his athletes shoes. He would tear them apart and build them up again, he would try putting his own inventions in the shoes which would either make the athlete break …show more content…
When Phil graduated he decided that he wanted to make his own shoe company so he travelled around the world to places like Greece and Vietnam and then japan to seek help from popular shoe company named Tiger. After several meeting with with the CEO he agreed to let Phil sell his shoes in America. It wasn’t a glamour job by any means he often sold shoes out the back of his trunk in the rainy winters of Oregon but he was starting his dream and that all that mattered to him. Shipments from Japan all of the sudden came to a halt and he wasn’t making money anymore even though he still had a contract with them. With all communications cut off and no shoes coming in he decide to breach his contract and make his own shoes. He contacted his track coach Bill and asked if he would like to help him start up his own company. Bill agreed and so with him and a small group of friends they went off and made their own shoe brand. Like I said befor Bill was always