![]() A good athlete at university, Knight goes into partnership with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman, each putting up $500. Aged 24, Knight heads to Japan, where he cold-calls shoe manufacturer Onitsuka and does his first deal, buying 12 pairs of runners for $50. The story of an MBA graduate with a crazy idea of importing running shoes from Japan reads like a parable. His rollicking story on the history of Nike, from its creation in 1962 until it went public in 1980, is a cracking read.Īccording to Forbes magazine, Knight, a native of Oregon in the US, is worth about $US25.1 billion ($35 billion), having created "the most valuable sports brand in the world". That makes the Nike founder a shoe dog extraordinaire. In this memoir Phil Knight tells us that shoe dogs are people who devote themselves to footwear with an all-consuming mania. ![]()
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