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\"Nike, Inc\" Phil Knight Signed TLS Dated 2018:
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Up for sale "Nike, Inc" Phil Knight Hand Signed TLS Dated 2018. 

February 24, 1938), is an American billionaire businessman. He is the

co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., and was previously chairman and CEO of the

company. As of July 23, 2020, Knight was ranked by Forbes as the 24th richest person in the world, with

an estimated net worth of US$50.7 billion. He is also the owner of the stop motion film production company Laika. Knight is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford

Graduate School of Business. He ran track under coach Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon, with whom he

would co-found Nike. Knight has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to each

of his alma maters, as well as Oregon

Health & Science University. He has donated over $2 billion to

the three institutions. Phil Hampson Knight was born in Portland, Oregon, to Bill Knight, a

lawyer turned newspaper publisher, and his wife, Lota Cloy (Hatfield) Knight. Knight

grew up in the Portland neighborhood of Eastmoreland,

and attended Cleveland

High School. According to one source, "When his father refused

to give him a summer job at his newspaper [the now defunct Oregon Journal], believing that his son should find work

on his own," Knight "went to the rival Oregonian, where he worked the morning shift tabulating

sports scores and every morning ran home the full seven miles." Knight

continued his education at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he is a graduate brother of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, was a sports reporter for

the Oregon Daily Emerald

and earned a journalism degree in 1959. As a middle-distance

runner at Oregon, his personal best was 1 mile (1.6 km) in 4 minutes, 13

seconds, and he won varsity letters for

his track performances in 1957, 1958 and 1959. In 1977, together with Bowerman

and Geoff Hollister, Knight founded an American running team called Athletics West. Before Blue Ribbon Sports—later

Nike—flourished, Knight was a CPA, first

with Coopers & Lybrand, and

then Price Waterhouse. Knight

then became an accounting professor at Portland State University.

Immediately after graduating from the University of Oregon, Knight enlisted in

the army and served one year on active duty and seven years in the Army Reserve. He next

enrolled at Stanford

Graduate School of Business, where, for his small business class, Knight

produced a paper, "Can Japanese Sports Shoes Do to German Sports Shoes

What Japanese Cameras Did to German Cameras?", that essentially premised his

eventual foray into selling running shoes. His ambition was to import

high-quality and low-cost running shoes from Japan into the American market. He

graduated with a master's degree in business administration from Stanford in

1962. Knight

set out on a trip around the world after graduation, during which he made a

stop in Kobe, Japan, in November 1962. It was there that

he discovered Tiger brand running

shoes, manufactured in Kobe by the Onitsuka Co., now known as Asics.

Impressed by the quality and low cost of the shoes, Knight called Mr. Onitsuka,

who agreed to meet with him. By the end of the meeting, Knight had secured

Tiger distribution rights for the western United States. The

first Tiger samples would take more than a year to be shipped to Knight; during

that time he found a job as an accountant in Portland. When Knight finally

received the shoe samples, he mailed two pairs to Bowerman at the University of

Oregon, hoping to gain both a sale and an influential endorsement. To Knight's

surprise, Bowerman not only ordered the Tiger shoes, but also offered to become

a partner with Knight and provide product design ideas. The two men agreed to a

partnership by handshake on January 25, 1964, the birth date of Blue Ribbon

Sports, the company that would later become Nike. Knight's

first sales were made out of a now storied green Plymouth Valiant automobile at track meets across

the Pacific Northwest. By 1969, these early sales allowed Knight

to leave his accountant job and work full-time for Blue Ribbon Sports. Jeff

Johnson, Nike's first employee, suggested calling the firm "Nike,"

named after the Greek winged goddess of victory, and

Blue Ribbon Sports was subsequently renamed Nike in 1978. Nike's

"swoosh" logo, now considered one of the most valuable

logos in the world, was commissioned for $35 from graphic design student Carolyn Davidson in 1971. According to Nike's website,

Knight said at the time: "I don't love it, but it will grow on me."

In September 1983, Davidson was given an undisclosed amount of Nike stock for her

contribution to the company's brand. On the Oprah television

program in April 2011, Knight claimed he gave Davidson "a few hundred

shares" when the company went public. At Nike, Knight developed personal

relationships with some of the world's most recognizable athletes,

including Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.

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