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Antoine Buteau

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Lessons from Phil Knight

Lessons from Phil Knight Phil Knight started Nike selling Japanese sneakers from his car trunk, an idea he first floated in a business school paper. He...

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Lessons from Madam C. J. Walker

Lessons from Madam C. J. Walker Madam C. J. Walker was a self taught chemist and sales strategist who built a hair care empire for Black women in the early...

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Lessons from Estee Lauder

Lessons from Estee Lauder Estée Lauder started by cooking face creams in her kitchen and selling them in local salons. She scaled that operation into a...

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Lessons from Walt Disney

Lessons from Walt Disney Walt Disney built an empire on the radical bet that cartoons could carry the weight of serious drama. He invented the theme park...

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Lessons from Konosuke Matsushita

Lessons from Konosuke Matsushita Konosuke Matsushita built Panasonic from a small tenement house into a global power by valuing human dignity over simple...

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Lessons from Soichiro Honda

Lessons from Soichiro Honda Soichiro Honda was a blacksmith’s son who built a global empire by treating failure as his primary raw material. He famously...

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Lessons from Akio Morita

Lessons from Akio Morita Akio Morita started Sony in a bombed out department store and turned "Made in Japan" from a punchline into a global mark of...

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Lessons from Ingvar Kamprad

Lessons from Ingvar Kamprad Kamprad started IKEA at 17, running a mail order business from his family’s farm. He built a global empire by betting on flat...

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