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| Today's Thought-The Founder of Nike |
| Friday, April 17, 2009 |
 Born February 11, 1911, the son of former Oregon governor Jay Bowerman, Bill Bowerman was a world-famous track and field coach before co-founding Nike, Inc. A high school football state champion in Oregon, Bowerman also played football for the University of Oregon and competed in track while studying journalism, business, and pre-med subjects. He wound up electing against medical school in favor of a coaching career, and was the track coach at Medford High School for the late 1930s and most of the 1940s, excepting the two years he served in the Army during World War II.
In 1948, Bowerman moved back to Eugene to become the freshman football coach at the University of Oregon. He soon became the track coach, and under him the men's track team won 24 individual NCAA titles, four team crowns, and finished in the top ten 16 times during his 24 years as head coach. He also coached the 4 mile relay team that in 1962 beat the world's record in that event. In 1967, he co-wrote a short book on jogging with Dr. W.E. Harris, a cardiologist; the book sold over one million copies, and was instrumental in starting the jogging phenomenon in the United States. When he retired from the university in 1972, he was selected as the head coach for the American track and field athletes headed to the Olympics in Munich, having shown an aptitude for designing training programs for Olympic-level athletes in preparation for the 1968 games.
In the meantime, Phil Knight, one of Bowerman's track athletes in the 1950s, proposed that they start an athletic shoe company, with Knight handling the business end and Bowerman working with the designs. It was a casual arrangement, beginning in early 1964 when Knight started selling imported Japanese sneakers out of the trunk of his car at track meets. Bowerman just selected the product at first, based on what his experience told him would work; in time he made his own designs, and a retail store opened in Santa Monica in 1966.
The first Nike shoe was released in 1971, named for the Greek goddess of victory, and it and its swoosh logo overtook the popularity of Bowerman and Knight's other products quickly enough that in 1978 they changed the name of their company from Blue Ribbon Sports to Nike. Early growth all came from word of mouth and a few print ads; not until 1982, during the New York Marathon, did they purchase television ad time. Bowerman's designs were made to cut down on blisters, to weigh as little as possible without sacrificing support, and to keep drag to a minimum. In the 1980s, the company expanded globally, and with a growing number of athletic endorsements, they became virtually synonymous with sports.
Bowerman passed away in his sleep in 1999, at the age of 88.
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| Today's Thought-The MySpace Founders |
| Thursday, April 9, 2009 |
Chris DeWolfe is the co-founder and chief executive officer of MySpace.com, the leading online lifestyle portal. DeWolfe, alongside co-founder and president, Tom Anderson, created a new platform for a generation to communicate and discover culture based around the self expression and connectivity of the site’s more than 115 million active users.
As MySpace’s CEO, DeWolfe is responsible for all aspects of the site’s strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Under his watch, MySpace has redefined the concept of online social networking, while transforming itself into the world’s most comprehensive lifestyle, communication, and entertainment portal. Along the way, DeWolfe has led strategic initiatives that have extended the site’s reach into a number of vertical categories – such as online video (MySpaceTV), politics (MySpace Impact), news, music and film – and at present a total of 29 international markets.
Under DeWolfe’s leadership, MySpace has grown exponentially since its launch in 2004, with an average of 300,000 new users signing up daily. By integrating Web profiles, blogs, classified listings, entertainment content, photo galleries and user forums, MySpace has created a community where users can do everything from plan their weekends to connect up with friends to discover new music. More than 70 million people in the U.S. visit the site each month, creating a user composition that includes politicians, bands, filmmakers, comedians, photographers, and people wanting to communicate with friends and plan their social lives.
MySpace’s international network includes localized community sites in the U.S., France, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Sweden, Latin America, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Brazil, India, Korea, and the United Kingdom.
DeWolfe has B.A. degree in Finance from the University of Washington and an MBA from the University of Southern California, where he had dual concentrations in Marketing and Entrepreneurial studies. DeWolfe serves on the board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and lives in Los Angeles.
Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson is the President and Co-Founder of MySpace. All newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default “friend” and therefore he’s become known as the face of the company. Anderson attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and English. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles and received a master’s degree in film - critical studies.
In 2003, Tom and a few computer programmers set up the first pages of MySpace and the site grew from there.
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| Today's Thought-The Platinum CEO |
| Wednesday, April 1, 2009 |
 Tom GoresFounder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Platinum Equity Founder, Chairman and CEO Tom Gores brings a broad background of acquisitions experience, technological expertise and operational knowledge to his fast-growing, yet strategically focused M&A&O (mergers, acquisitions and operations) organization. From the corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, California, Mr. Gores serves as chairman of the board, overseeing strategic development and direction for each of the companies currently in the Platinum portfolio. Platinum typically acquires businesses from leading, Fortune 500 companies including GE, Global Crossing, Vivendi Universal, CompuCom, DyStar, Lucent, Fujitsu, Philips, Kemper Services, Hays, Alcatel and Motorola.
Mr. Gores has completed more than eighty transactions at Platinum, earning nationwide recognition as an M&A&O strategist in the competitive acquisitions market space.
Since the Company’s founding in 1995, Platinum Equity has been recognized by top business publications as one of the largest and fastest-growing, private companies in the United States, most recently ranking #22 on Forbes’ Largest Private Companies list for 2006. Tom Gores is also on Forbes World Billionaires and Richest Americans lists, and is noted as one of the youngest individuals added to the roster.
Prior to establishing Platinum in 1995, Mr. Gores was an active investor in startup operations and while doing so, developed a philosophy of “managed entrepreneurship” – a principle critical to his success in creating new value in all Platinum-owned companies. Mr. Gores combines his M&A acumen and operational knowledge to execute unique acquisition strategies that have driven the rapid growth of Platinum Equity to a multi-billion-dollar revenue base in just twelve years.
In that time, Mr. Gores has also built up a deep infrastructure of more than 100 M&A&O professionals dedicated to the fulfillment of the transaction process from acquisition through operations. This dynamic staff is part of Platinum’s unique corporate culture, which is guided by Mr. Gores’ leadership principles and core values that have charted Platinum’s course to success.
Outside his duties at Platinum Equity, Mr. Gores is involved in philanthropic activities as a member of the board of directors at both St. Joseph’s Hospital and UCLA Medical Center. Mr. Gores holds a Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University.
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