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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched The Founders By Jimmy Soni, Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE By Phil Knight 2 Books Collection The In The Founders, award-winning author Jimmy Soni narrates how a once-in-a-generation collaboration turned a scrappy start-up into one of the most successful businesses of all time. Facing bruising competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s, their success was anything but certain. But they would go on to change our world forever.Informed by hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material. Shoe A Memoir by the Creator of In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the boot of his Plymouth, Knight grossed $8000 in his first year. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of start-ups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all start-ups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognisable symbols in the world today.But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time.