Mark Parker, every mention
9 scenes · ← back to Mark Parker
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Ben Gilbert 6David Rosenthal 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mark Parker comes up
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:11:08 Ben Gilbert Nike's heyday was when a guy who started in sneaker design ended up running the company, Mark Parker.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:45:29 Ben Gilbert Mark Parker later walked this back with a stance where he said, ignorance is not bliss.
- ▶ 2:39:00 David Rosenthal He ran track for Bowerman in Oregon and studied architecture, and then he comes into Nike, and together with Mark Parker, who would become the CEO of Nike, they design the Air Max, they design the Air Trainer, they're part of Nike's…
- ▶ 2:48:16 David Rosenthal Tinker Hatfield and Mark Parker join.
- ▶ 3:05:55 Ben Gilbert Big Me Too issues at the executive level, the person that everyone thought was gonna be the CEO and next after Mark Parker and many of his people around him were shown the exit.
- ▶ 3:49:09 Ben Gilbert So, there's a bear case that we haven't talked about, which is, Nike's in a weird place when Mark Parker retires.
- ▶ 3:49:16 Ben Gilbert He was supposed to have a successor.
- ▶ 3:49:38 Ben Gilbert He was a board member, so he knows Nike's history from that level, but different than, I mean, Mark Parker started as a sneaker designer.
- ▶ 3:49:46 David Rosenthal He designed the Pegasus, which I think is the longest single-running model with no pauses in Nike's history.