Phil Knight Borrowed $50 From His Dad (And Changed The World) | The Nike Story
Phil Knight started his journey with a crazy dream and a fifty dollar loan from his father. He was deeply in debt and often had to sell running shoes out of the trunk of his car just to survive. His first company, Blue Ribbon Sports, struggled for years and almost went out of business many times. He teamed up with his old track coach, Bill Bowerman, who famously used a waffle iron to create a new kind of rubber sole for their shoes. Even when banks refused to help him and he had to sleep in his car, Phil never gave up on his vision to bring high-quality shoes to runners in America. Get all the PDF summaries here: https://www.skool.com/believenation/classroom