On January 25, 1964, Phil Knight and William Bowerman founded Blue Ribbon Sports, a running shoe business that would be rebranded in 1971 as Nike. The company, of course, is now a juggernaut ...

Phil Knight’s private foundation grew to $5 billion in 2023 ... Knight, 86, co-founded Nike with Bill Bowerman in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports. Knight left the company’s board of directors in 2016. He ...

Phil Knight, co-founder and former CEO of Nike ... The company started out selling imported Japanese athletic shoes under the name Blue Ribbon Sports before becoming Nike in 1971.

including the New York-based poverty relief group Blue Meridian Partners ($1.9 million) and the Stegner creative writing program at Stanford ($3.3 million). Phil Knight took creative writing ...

The company started out selling imported Japanese athletic shoes under the name Blue Ribbon Sports before ... Field Olympic Trials; and the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific ...

Nike co-founder Phil Knight attends the Texas Tech-Oregon nonconference ... imported Japanese athletic shoes under the name Blue Ribbon Sports before becoming Nike in 1971. Bowerman died in ...