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Phil Knight: Founder of Nike May 7, 2026 · 115 mentions

  • ▶ 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. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:21 David Senra For his customers, just like Phil Knight.
  • ▶ 11:35 David Senra And this was Phil Knight's reaction. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:07 David Senra You have Bowerman, this, this, such a god in Phil Knight's eyes, who is encouraging you so much on your crazy idea. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:20 David Senra And so this hatred of losing and this just competitive drive, it's something that Phil's going to repeat over and over in the book, but he does it almost in a nice way. 19 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:12 David Senra As you're probably picking up from this story, Phil Knight is one of the most focused and intense founders that you will ever come across. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:12 David Senra And it's the fact that Phil Knight did not believe in leaving any money in the company bank account. 13 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. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:09 David Senra They want to break the contract with Blue Ribbon and they want to sign with other distributors because American market, which Phil Knight is the first to sell their running shoes in, is way more valuable than they understood. 9 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
  • ▶ 55:42 David Senra Now there's a huge internal conflict that Phil Knight 22 times in the scene

How Roger Federer Works. Feb 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:23 David Senra Bill Bowerman was Phil Knight's track coach at Oregon, and he had these ideas decades before anybody else.

The Greatest Moneymaker of All Time: Jim Simons May 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:21 David Senra Isn't this amazing how many times this is coming up on these, uh, the people that you and I have been studying this the last few weeks, Michael Dell, Phil Knight. 2 times in the scene

The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony May 6, 2025 · 1 mention

The Life Story of Michael Dell Apr 22, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 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. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:07 David Senra Made me think of Phil Knight again. 4 times in the scene

Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream Apr 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz Mar 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:49 David Senra You know, James Dyson's autobiography, Phil Knight, this biography, they're just really important, because it's Sam Walton's, they just lay out exactly, you know, it's a, it's a wise older man looking back at, with a lot of wisdom, and I…

I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods Aug 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:36 David Senra But when I heard John talk about this in person, and also when I read the, in the book, I thought of something that this is the advice that Phil Knight gave to younger entrepreneurs that he neglected to do himself, because at the end of…

How To Sell Like Steve Jobs Jul 3, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 31:39 David Senra Actually comes from Phil Knight's autobiography, Shoe Dog. 7 times in the scene

How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull Apr 23, 2024 · 1 mention

The Biography of Tiger Woods Mar 18, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 37:51 David Senra Phil Knight, you know, has been on record over and over again saying that there is no Nike without Bill Bowerman, and the interesting thing about Bill Bowerman was 6 times in the scene

Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia) Mar 8, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:27 David Senra oh, this is another billionaire who started out by selling his product out of his trunk, just like Phil Knight.
  • ▶ 17:54 David Senra Like, Phil Knight and Walt Disney, and then getting an offer from the Mafia, which is hilarious. 2 times in the scene

The Biography of Ralph Lauren Feb 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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

What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett Jan 9, 2024 · 1 mention

The Biography of Kobe Bryant Nov 8, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 15:31 David Senra But I'm skipping over that part because really what I found so interesting and what personally interesting to me is if you read Phil Knight's autobiography, Shoe Dog, which I covered for the second time on episode one, 7 times in the scene
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