Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Famous Enterpener

Henry FordDad wanted to take over the farm, but he was uninterested
First venture was fixing pocket watches
Created Ford, which has been successful

Jerry Yang
Went to Stanford university
Started Yahoo
Is worth 44.6B

Ray Kroc
Sold paper cups then multi mixers
Asked if he could expand the McDonald's brothers store
Came up with hamburger university
Bought McDonald's from the brothers for 2.7M
Don't work for just money

Phil Knight
Went to Oregon for school
Co founder was his coach
In 2011 Nike was worth an estimated 11.1B

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