Heard About Phil Knight?

An American businessman, co-founder and chairman of the company Nike Incorporation, born on 24^th February 1938, that’s Phil Knight. He manages the world’s largest supply of Athletic shoes and apparel. Phil always had an interest in running and was a middle-distance runner at the university of Orgeon where he studied Journalism.

Later on, he enrolled in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and that was where he discovered what he wanted to do with his life, creating a business dealing in shoes. He graduated with an MBA in 1962. After graduation, he travelled around the world and also visited Japan as well where he was amazed and impressed by the quality and low cost of shoes. This motivated him to start the Blue Ribbon Sports Company in 1964 by collaborating with his former coach Bowerman to form a partnership to distribute the shoes in America.

In 1971, Knight and Bowerman had some disagreements in relation to the contract they made and that led Knight to start his own company which is popularly known as Nike today. He designed products that the world’s top athletes would love to use and he made friends with people like Steve Prefontaine with the assurance that he would help him reach out to others who may be interested in his product.