Shawn Davis

27A – Reading Reflection No. 3

            The autobiography I read was “Shoe Dog”. What surprised me the most while reading this was how big people perceived Nike to be today compared to how many times he has failed along the way to get Nike off of the ground. Another thing that was surprising to me is that Nike just started out with just shoes and that it started with a fifty dollar wire from Phil’s dad. While reading his autobiography what I admired out of Phil the mot was that he never gave up even when things seemed to have no hope and was in a huge financial hold. The thing that I least admired is when Phil thought that he had to lie to the people in japan in order to get more business from them. The entrepreneur did face adversity and failure throughout his journey to becoming Nike. One part of the reading that did confuse me was hoe Phil kept blowing through money and how he was able to function without the employees that you would assume a company like that to have in order to function. If I were able to ask Phil two questions I would ask him how this impact did on his family and if he has any regrets regarding that.