Phil Knight
Philip Hampson Knight is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc. He co-founded the company as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964 with his former University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman, serving as CEO from 1968 to 1990 and again from 2000 to 2004, and as chairman until his retirement from the board in 2016. He is best known for building Nike from a small partnership into the world's largest athletic footwear and apparel company, and is also the owner of the stop-motion animation studio Laika.
“It was the same thing with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Paul Allen and Phil Knight. They all started companies because they thought that was interesting fun... But those people always end up richer. They're owners. They didn't check out.”
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