Blue Ribbon Sports
also referred to as: blue ribbon
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 25, 2023 by David Rosenthal · said 68 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Rosenthal (53), Ben Gilbert (15)
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2023 68 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Blue Ribbon Sports, oldest first
Jul 25, 2023 positive
Nike Hit $3.2 Million in Revenue in 1972 After Splitting From Tiger
“That year, so this is 1972. Blue Ribbon's first full year doing sales as Nike, purely on their own. They do 3.2 million dollars in revenue. Remember, just a couple years before their last kind of full year with Tiger, they were doing half a million dollars in …”
Jul 25, 2023 positive
Nissho Iwai Financed Nike's Predecessor for a 4% Shoe Royalty
“Phil signs a deal, finally, with Nisho EY, and the core part of the deal is Nisho will, A, finance all of Blue Ribbon's financing needs, henceforth, pretty much at a scale that goes all the way up to the moon. I mean, they're a hundred billion dollar revenue c…”
Jul 25, 2023
Jul 25, 2023 neutral
Early Nike Faced an FBI Fraud Investigation Over Bounced Payroll Checks
“Like, he got kicked out of multiple banks. The FBI got involved. They were playing it a little bit too fast and loose, where they were using every available penny to, you Buy inventory, and so there would be checks that bounced for payroll and things like that…”
Jul 25, 2023 positive
Extreme Early Financing Constraints Were Critical to Nike's Success
“Two, though, ironically, I actually, as crazy as this sounds, think it was a critical element of Nike Succeeding and becoming Nike. Because if it were too easy, there would have been a flood of other competitors. Or Onitsuka and others would have just done thi…”
Jul 25, 2023 neutral
Jul 25, 2023 positive
Jul 25, 2023 neutral
Nike Inc. Was Founded in 1971 as a Subsidiary of Blue Ribbon
“So in 1971, they do create Nike Inc. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Ribbon Sports, and it is responsible for manufacturing, well, or contracting with manufacturers to make this line of shoes, this Nike-designed line of shoes owned by Blue Ribbon Sport…”
Jul 25, 2023 neutral
Jul 25, 2023 neutral
Jul 25, 2023 neutral
Regional Distribution Businesses Were Far More Defensible Before the Internet
“The idea that your core competency is just distributing someone else's product among a geographic area where you have a relationship with customers, that might have actually been a pretty good plan and much more defensible in a way that it's much harder to bui…”
Jul 25, 2023
Jul 25, 2023
The Viral 'Nike 10 Principles' Memo Was Written by Rob Strasser
“Here are the things that are wrong with that statement. One, Phil Knight did not write it. Rob Strasser did. Two, Nike's principles. Also incorrect. When this was written, it was actually still Blue Ribbon Sports, so that it was not yet the Nike corporation. T…”