Company · Fashion & Apparel · Sports · founded 1964
Nike
Athletic footwear and apparel company near Beaverton, Oregon, founded January 25, 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and renamed Nike in 1971.
Of the 1 person here linked to Nike, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Nike
Founder Still there
Role
Co-founder of Blue Ribbon Sports (renamed Nike in 1971), 1964–now
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. The Nike page infobox lists him as chairman emeritus; his own page says he officially stepped down from all duties with the company on June 30, 2016. Status rests on Wikipedia and the two pages differ.
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Phil Knight
Co-founder, Nike, Inc. (Blue Ribbon Sports)
middle-class · some · graduate degree