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Shoe Dog

by Phil Knight
🎧 23 min listen Biography & Memoir

Phil Knight bet everything on a dream. Here's how he almost lost it all - and won.

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Chapter 1 Nike almost went bankrupt multiple times

Nike almost went bankrupt multiple times, saved each time by a single relationship or lucky break. The name 'Nike' was chosen the morning of its deadl…

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In 1962, a broke 24-year-old ran around Japan pitching
shoes he didn't own to a company he'd just met. Fifty
years later, that hustle became Nike. Shoe Dog is the raw,
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