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Classic 16: Billionaire Phil Knights' Book About Founding Nike

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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I've Got to Go and Create My Own Shoe Company

Phil Knight created his own shoe company after running into manufacturing issues. He was embarrassed with the way t they looked and the quality of the shoes, but he had to go with it because they 're gong to launch. After these vendors looked at the shoe, they came over and like, could we buy ten thousand of these shoes from you? That immediately turned into a sale for him. And i can't tell you how important i feel that that point in this story is."

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