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  1. Bob Woodell. Knight hires Woodell to work as a salesman for Blue Ribbon. Woodell was one of the best runners in the United States until an accident paralyzed him, ending his athletic career. Woodell is a tireless employee; he never complains and supports Knight to the best of his ability.

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    Blue Ribbon is hiring rapidly, and Bowerman has an employee candidate for Phil. Bob Woodell is famous. He was a standout runner at Oregon, but an accident left him paralyzed from the waist down and now in a wheelchair. Phil meets with him and they’re mutually smitten. Phil offers him a job opening Blue Ribbon’s second retail store in Eugene, Oregon...

    Once again, sales are poised to double for Blue Ribbon, at $300,000 this year. Phil feels it’s finally safe to pay himself a salary ($18,000 a year), and he quits Portland State to go full time at Blue Ribbon. Blue Ribbon finds a new office in Tigard. Bob Woodell, the former runner in a wheelchair, is promoted to operations manager at Blue Ribbon. ...

    As always, the bank has problems with Blue Ribbon’s perennially low cash reserves. Bigger sales has meant bigger loans, which would be harder to pay off and higher risk if the company collapsed. As always, Phil is frustrated that the banks don’t see the bigger picture – a company doubling every year! With $600,000 in sales this year, Phil asks for ...

    Phil strongly requests two employees, Bob Woodell and Johnson, to trade roles and locations, transferring between Boston and Oregon. Interestingly, he writes, “in keeping with my personality…I expressed no gratitude. I spoke not a word of thanks or praise.”

    There are countless more difficulties to resolve – a larger warehouse on the East Coast, a larger scale advertising agency, new endorsements for more sports. But Phil gets through it with his ragtag team of Bob Woodell, Johnson, Strasser, and Hayes. They call each other and the team Buttface. The joke is, in how many successful companies can you ye...

    Sales double again – on track for $140 million in 1979. Nike keeps growing. They change headquarters to a 40,000 square foot building in Beaverton, where his office is bigger than their entire first headquarters. They have factories in Taiwan, Korea, England, and Ireland. Industry analysts say that Nike is unstoppable. Nike launches an apparel busi...

  2. Woodell's parents loaned $8,000, their life's savings, to Phil when the company had liquidity problems; The Japanese shoe manufacturer, Onitsuka, attempted a hostile takeover in 1971. Phil started looking for alternative manufacturers and found one in Mexico called Canada.

  3. May 5, 2016 · In " Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike ," Phil Knight sends the reader on a tour of the company's creation and formative years, from 1962, when he took the...

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  7. Apr 26, 2016 · Phil Knight. Simon and Schuster, Apr 26, 2016 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages. In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight...

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