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Shoe Dog

Phil Knight · 2014
Mentioned 44 times across 12 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline44 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Inside Ryan Holiday’s $250K Reading List
The Daily Stoic · Oct 2026
“Of course shoe dogmate. Also very incredible”
Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346
This Week in Startups · Oct 2026
“Shoe dog by Phil Knight. You can look for other people who wrote about Nike and you know, uh, Japan during that time”
Winning the Degenerate Economy with StockTwits CEO Howard Lindzon
Masters in Business · May 2026
“I still love the classic shoe dog for business, you know, Phil Knight's book”
The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight
The Knowledge Project · Feb 2026
“That was an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Shoe Dog by Phil Knight”
My decision-making framework for which ideas to chase
My First Million · Feb 2026
“I haven't read Shoe Dog, by the way, which I know is like supposed to be mandatory. I started it and I was like Yeah. So I've only read Shoe Dog”
The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2026
“business books. I'm a big fan of Shoe Dog”
2025
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Sep 2025
“And then Third is shoe dog, where I just find it to be A really inspirational story”
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Aug 2025
“Love. Love shoe dog, like Yeah. It's a pit in me of like starting a company”
Blake Hall - Combat, Service, and Innovation
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jan 2025
“once the incumbents don't have a product or a business model response, they start to come after you to tarnish the new technology is unsafe”
2024
Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Aug 2024
“Shoe dog? Mm. Black Swan. Um, design of everyday things. And For a fun one, Chantaron”
#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
Founders · Jul 2024
“at the end of his Autobiography shoe dog, he said this. I struggle to remember”
#350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
Founders · May 2024
“Actually comes from Phil Knight's autobiography, Shoe Dog”
Michael Jordan In His Own Words
Founders · May 2024
“I did another episode on Shoe Dog”
2023
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
How I Built This with Guy Raz · Oct 2023
“I had just read Shoe Dog by Phil Knight and had all this on my mind about like the legacy and like my newborn son and like what were we doing”
David Senra - In Service of Founders - [Invest Like the Best, EP.343]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Sep 2023
“If you get to the end of Phil Knight's book, Shoe Dogs like, Oh, this is all the same dream”
Nike
Acquired · Jul 2023
“And because Shoe Dog is so good”
#671: Bobby Hundreds — Building an Iconic Streetwear Brand, Making $7 Million in 40 Minutes, The Power of Garfield, Why Korean Entertainment is Taking Over the World, Maintaining the Mystery, The Fickleness of Fortune, and Developing “Nunchi”
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2023
“or Phil Knight's shoe dog, right, is a great ex kids in the street where love that book”
#297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)
Founders · Apr 2023
“if you read Shoe Dog, Phil Knight talks about this a lot”
#288 Ralph Lauren
Founders · Jan 2023
“fantastic bio autobiography, Shoe Dog, the early days of Nike were so that had so much growth”
#651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2023
“This is the um Phil Knight. Nike book”
2022
Kirsten Green - Investing in Consumer Change - [Invest Like the Best, EP.301]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2022
“So what are you going to tell three young people? Read the shoe dog. Think about Nike and all his iterations and evolutions”
Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 2022
“Have you read the book Shoe Dog? I haven't It's a great book. Anyway, it's Phil Knight's book”
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
Acquired · Feb 2022
“the same Pillitzer Prize winning. writer who helped Phil Knight with Shoe Dog”
#226 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
Founders · Jan 2022
“in the book Shoe Dog, Phil Knight talks about like you know, Nike's this gigantic company today”
#225 Winston Churchill
Founders · Jan 2022
“in shoe dog. when the founding of Nike, right”
2021
Niraj Shah - Developing Every Skill - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 252]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2021
“When you hear these stories Phil Knight wrote this book called Shoe Dog”
#213 Michael Jordan: Driven From Within
Founders · Oct 2021
“I did another episode on Shoe Dog. Now I've read two books on Michael”
#197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty
Founders · Aug 2021
“Phil Knight explicitly says that in his uh autobiography shoe job”
#191 Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)
Founders · Jul 2021
“with Shoe Dog, I think I A month or go, or something like that”
Michael Mayer - Business Boss Battles - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 40]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jul 2021
“Or Entertaining books like Shoe Dog about building a business”
Will Ahmed - Optimizing Human Performance – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 39]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jun 2021
“The book Shoe Dog is a great book. Phil Knight Writes about creating Nike”
#174 with Andrew Wilkinson - How to Network with Billionaires, Andrew and Sam's Recent Investments, & a Better Investor Than Buffett
My First Million · Apr 2021
“And you know, it's like Phil Knight is like the man because of Shoe Dog, right”
#168 - How to Reverse Engineer Businesses, The Indonesian King of Coal & the Story of Adida‪s‬
My First Million · Apr 2021
“Shoe Dog is like super popular about the founding story of Nike”
2020
#486: Harley Finkelstein — Tactics and Strategies from Shopify, The Future of Retail, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2020
“I'm not sure it's a biography, but one of the best books I I I've read. I read it a couple of years ago is is Shoe Dog”
#153 Bill Bowerman (Nike)
Founders · Nov 2020
“I was actually Um, rereading through my highlights from Phil Knight, the founder, uh the co founder of Nike, his book Shoe Dog”
#151 Frederick Smith (FedEx)
Founders · Oct 2020
“And just like when F and Phil Knight talked about it in his book Shoe Dog, and Phil Knight's uh he talks about, you know, I g I gave this presentation”
#148 John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography)
Founders · Oct 2020
“I just recently uh reread my highlights for Phil Knight's”
Pinduoduo
Acquired · Jul 2020
“It's just a really good if you kind of like the like”
#65 - Q&A with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-founder of Tiny
My First Million · Apr 2020
“I really loved Shoe Dog. Which is Phil Knights. autobiography. He's the founder of Nike”
#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas)
Founders · Feb 2020
“it's founders podcast number ten. But more than that, I really think that um the opening of that podcast is probably the one of the best, if not the best opening of of ever of any founders episode. Because it's like it it's this inner monologue. I think Phil Knight's something like twenty four years old at the time. And you know, just like e everybody else goes to this like what am I gonna do with my life? Like, you know, it's especially at that age you have this huge uncertainty. Like”
2019
Disney, Plus
Acquired · Nov 2019
“This is one of the best business books. It's right up there with Shoe Dog that have come out in the last ten years”
Huawei
Acquired · Jul 2019
“pattern matching radar going off in my head reminds me of Shoe Dog, where Nike started as the the blue ribbon shoes and they were importing Onituka Tigers”
2018
#28 The Wright Brothers
Founders · Jun 2018
“I'd recommend listening to Shoe Dog by the founder of Nike, Phil Knight”
#22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
Founders · Mar 2018
“we'll will uh We'll remember this from the podcast I did on the shoe dog, which is uh Phil Knights. Fantastic book about starting Nike”