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How Did Bill Bowerman's Mission To Make Nike?

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Nike, Inc. has been around for more than 50 years with the mission to make lighter and better athletic sporting goods to help athletes become their best. Bill Bowerman ,a University of Oregon track athlete, set out on a mission to find a lighter, more durable shoe for his athletes and bumped into Phil Knight ,a marketing expert, and together they created Nike, Inc. At first they started selling the product out of the back of Phil Knight's automobile. Otis Davis a former athlete at the University of Oregon coached by Bill Bowerman went on to win two gold medals at the 1960Summer Olympics wearing one of the pairs of Bill and Phil’s products, at the Olympics Nike caught a lot of eyes even some of billionaires. In 1964 ,the first year, BRS sold
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