He always wears sunglasses and shows people as super "cool"; He used to be a long-distance runner, and later started with $65,438+$0,000, creating a sports kingdom of tens of billions of dollars; His company is a famous advertising pioneer, but it bluntly says "I don't believe in advertising"; He is at the forefront of business, but he loves to study Japanese Zen culture and is often lost in thought.
He is introverted and not talkative, but he is good at rallying people. Nike is like a happy athlete club. 20 19 In March, phil knight ranked 26th on Forbes' list of billionaires with a wealth of $33.4 billion.
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Compared with the founders of Silicon Valley who are still eager to publish biographies in their forties, Mr. Knight, 78, seems to be an anomaly. This low-key old man has never left his hometown in his life except for going to Stanford University for an MBA at the age of 24.
He was born and raised in Portland, a seaport city in the northwestern United States. The Nike headquarters he founded is in a small town outside his hometown of Portland. He stayed away from the media all the year round, wore a pair of sunglasses in public and supported his alma mater, the Origen Ducks, all his life.
Before that, few people outside the sports circle paid attention to him. In the eyes of many media, he is just a greedy little old man behind countless sweatshops in Southeast Asia. It was not until the memoir was published that people rediscovered the founder of this sports brand that has been integrated into American culture.
From this book, I can't see the author's ostentatious tone at all, just like an ordinary old man, calmly recalling the past in the afternoon sun. Compared with those arrogant young talents in the internet age, they are a little more profound and long-lasting.
In Knight's story, entrepreneurship is not to change the world, but a 30-year race. From a young man who has nothing, he takes on more and more responsibilities in the race and lingers on the brink of bankruptcy and death all the year round. When he reached middle age, he took the company to the market, but he didn't stop, but ran faster and faster. It was not until the year he retired that he suddenly looked around and found himself the final winner.
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