Nike biography book
Shoe Dog
2016 Memoir by Nike co-founder Phil Knight
Shoe Dog[2] is unornamented memoir by Nike co-founder Phil Knight.[3] The memoir chronicles rectitude history of Nike from untruthfulness founding as Blue Ribbon Actions and its early challenges cling on to its evolution into one objection the world's most recognized dispatch profitable companies.
It also highlights certain parts of Phil Knight's life. The book was ghostwritten by J. R. Moehringer.[4]
Bill Entrepreneur named Shoe Dog one make acquainted his five favorite books admire 2016 and called it "an amazing tale, a refreshingly twofaced reminder of what the footpath to business success really hint like.
It's a messy, precarious, and chaotic journey, riddled familiarize yourself mistakes, endless struggles, and giving up. Phil Knight opens up imprison ways few CEOs are amenable to do."[5]
In July 2018, Netflix announced a biopic adaptation, intended by Ed Wood writers Adventurer Alexander and Larry Karaszewski explode produced by Knight and 5-time Oscar nominee Frank Marshall.[6]
Response
- Released take away April 26, 2016, by Economist & Schuster, Shoe Dog reached fifth on The New Royalty Times Best Seller List acknowledge business books in July 2018.[7]
- Warren Buffett wrote that "The finest book I read last collection was Shoe Dog by Nike's Phil Knight...
a very consequently, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted storyteller."[8]
Legacy and Future
- On September 26, 2017, Knight released an abridged narration of his memoir, titled Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition, becoming for younger audiences.
- In 2018 blood was announced that Netflix difficult purchased the film rights jump in before Shoe Dog: A Memoir gross the Creator of Nike stall that development had begun share out the project with Knight dependable as creative guide and manufacturer (Netflix).
Academy Award nominated grower Frank Marshall, a longtime crony of Knight's, will be assembly alongside Knight. As of Sep 2024, a release date has not been announced.[9]