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Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
- ▶ 0:50 David Senra Phil Knight is quoting his co-founder of Nike, Bill Bowerman.
- ▶ 6:20 David Senra It is Shoe Dog, written by the founder of Nike, Phil Knight. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 David Senra You just realize that Nike's this massive company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:10 David Senra So Phil Knight starts the company that's going to eventually turn into Nike. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:31 David Senra One of the things I love most about is every single chapter, the name of the chapter is just a year, and so he, it starts with his, the founding of Nike, and then it brings it all the way up to the IPO, and then it ends.
- ▶ 29:05 David Senra And something that causes Nike to not only grow unbelievably fast, but also gives him a lot of pain and suffering and trouble. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:45 David Senra And so he's married and starting to have kids at this point, and he describes what, what Phil Knight looked at, looked like through the eyes of his wife at the, at this time in the history of Nike. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:03 David Senra Well, how the hell did Nike come about? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:18 David Senra And so one of the most interesting things about this early history of Nike is their financial problems never go away until they IPO and Phil Knight would say no to going public over and over and over again. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:45 David Senra Experiences as he builds Nike. 7 times in the scene
How Roger Federer Works.
- ▶ 19:20 David Senra This part made me think of the co-founder of Nike, Bill Bowerman.
- ▶ 46:33 David Senra He was a long-term Nike athlete, and when he couldn't come to terms with Nike in 2018, he took a giant risk on a completely different company. 2 times in the scene
Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
- ▶ 46:34 David Senra Days later, I talked to my manager and asked him to put aside a nest egg of Nike stock in Frankie's name.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
- ▶ 9:16 David Senra Of the founders of companies like Adidas, Nike, and then Vans shoe. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:03 David Senra If you remember on the Michael Jordan episodes and also on the Nike episodes, when the NBA banned, uh, the original Jordan shoe at the very beginning, Nike's like, Oh, hopefully we're going to sell. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:21:14 David Senra It's right up there with Nike, Disney, Coke, Sony. 6 times in the scene
Jimmy Iovine: Founder of Interscope Records & Legendary Record Producer
- ▶ 54:47 David Senra Nike would pay the fine that generate all this attention.
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 3:50 David Senra And then Phil Knight, founder of Nike, this is what he said. 2 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 36:01 David Senra And there's another thing that Michael Dell is going to have in common with Phil Knight, the founder of Nike.
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 11:10 David Senra Phil Knight, founder of Nike, same thing. 3 times in the scene
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 5:11 David Senra There's a hilarious story that comes to mind when the Mark Parker, who's the former CEO of Nike, asked Steve Jobs if he had any advice for him. 2 times in the scene
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 25:58 David Senra And he mentions, this is also happening to Nike and Reebok at the time.
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 31:59 David Senra So before he started Nike, Phil Knight ran track.
Michael Jordan And Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 18:32 David Senra The fact that he's got this crazy deal with Nike that he's been getting five percent royalty.
- ▶ 40:22 David Senra The brand under Nike, his entire team, everybody in the NBA has that.
- ▶ 1:01:30 David Senra He's in head to toe in full Nike gear. 7 times in the scene
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 9:16 David Senra Of the founders of companies like Adidas, Nike, and then Vans shoe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:14 David Senra If you remember on the Michael Jordan episodes and also on the Nike episodes, when the NBA banned, uh, the original Jordan shoe at the very beginning, Nike's like, oh, hopefully we're going to sell. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Tiger Woods
- ▶ 37:47 David Senra Bill Bowerman is the co-founder of Nike. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:02 David Senra For instance, Nike had recently shipped a box of prototype titanium drivers to Wood so that he could test them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:04 David Senra I'm not gonna play for my dad, or for my mom, or for my agent, or for my caddy, or for Nike, or for my foundation, or for you, or for the fans.
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:18:21 David Senra It's right up there with Nike, Disney, Coke, Sony. 6 times in the scene
Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia)
- ▶ 18:23 David Senra This is exactly like, if you read Shoe Dog, Phil Knight talks about this a lot in the early days and Nike.
- ▶ 28:40 David Senra Can we actually make the best outdoor clothing in the world be the size of Nike?
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 40:58 David Senra If you read Phil Knight's, uh, fantastic autobiography, Shoe Dog, the early days of Nike were so, they had so much growth, and he refused to slow down, that he constantly was on the edge
- ▶ 57:31 David Senra And then Michael Jordan's deal that he has with Nike was also in the news, especially in the last like year or two, because Jordan brand is still growing so much.
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 19:57 David Senra That's exactly how Phil Knight and the story of Nike begins.
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 15:15 David Senra And so this book spends quite a bit of time talking about the fact that, hey, you have all these shoe companies like Nike and Adidas. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:20 David Senra The guy that brought him to Adidas that made him famous, that, uh, this guy named Sonny Vaccaro, he's this, like, famous figure in Nike history and Adidas history, and he's, like, this interesting backstory.
The Biography of John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
- ▶ 40:00 David Senra But it made me think of something I learned from the co-founder of Nike, or about the co-founder of Nike, Bill Bowerman, back on episode one 53.