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In revealing memoir, Phil Knight opens up about his life and Nike
The first time Phil Knight publicly shared his hunch that Japanese running shoes could be worth betting on, his entrepreneurship classmates at the Stanford Graduate School of Business couldn't ...
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Nike designed a sneaker with a flared heel that looked like a water ski in the 1970s — and customers had a surprising reaction when the shoe was recalled for causing injuries
In his 2016 memoir, "Shoe Dog," Nike cofounder Phil Knight ... While Bowerman was disappointed in the result, Knight didn't view it as a setback. "The LD 1000 was like a literary genius's novel ...