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Shoe Dog

Phil Knight · 2014
Mentioned 41 times across 9 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline41 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight
The Knowledge Project · Feb 2026 · 0:52
that was an excerpt from the book i'm going to talk to you about today which is shoe dog by phil knight ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
My decision-making framework for which ideas to chase
My First Million · Feb 2026 · 45:39
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 ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2026 · 68:11
business books i'm a big fan of shoe dog ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
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 · 63:12
and then third is shoe dog where i just find it to be a really inspirational story ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Aug 2025 · 64:27
love love shoe dog like yeah it's a pit in me of like starting a company ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
Blake Hall - Combat, Service, and Innovation
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jan 2025 · 64:58
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 ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
2024
Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Aug 2024 · 66:23
shoe dog mm black swan um design of everyday things and for a fun one chantaron ▶ tap to hear this moment · 11s
#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
Founders · Jul 2024 · 42:25
at the end of his autobiography shoe dog he said this i struggle to remember ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
#350 How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
Founders · May 2024 · 31:38
actually comes from phil knight's autobiography shoe dog ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
Michael Jordan In His Own Words
Founders · May 2024 · 31:41
i did another episode on shoe dog ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s
2023
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
How I Built This with Guy Raz · Oct 2023 · 80:29
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 ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s
David Senra - In Service of Founders - [Invest Like the Best, EP.343]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Sep 2023 · 35:41
if you get to the end of phil knight's book shoe dogs like oh this is all the same dream ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
Nike
Acquired · Jul 2023 · 1:17
and because shoe dog is so good ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s
#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 · 191:02
or phil knight's shoe dog right is a great ex kids in the street where love that book ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
#297 Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)
Founders · Apr 2023 · 18:23
if you read shoe dog phil knight talks about this a lot ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
#288 Ralph Lauren
Founders · Jan 2023 · 40:58
fantastic bio autobiography shoe dog the early days of nike were so that had so much growth ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
#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 · 56:12
this is the um phil knight nike book ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
2022
Kirsten Green - Investing in Consumer Change - [Invest Like the Best, EP.301]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2022 · 58:57
so what are you going to tell three young people read the shoe dog think about nike and all his iterations and evolutions ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 2022 · 77:10
have you read the book shoe dog i haven't it's a great book anyway it's phil knight's book ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
Acquired · Feb 2022 · 97:05
the same pillitzer prize winning writer who helped phil knight with shoe dog ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
#226 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
Founders · Jan 2022 · 37:42
in the book shoe dog phil knight talks about like you know nike's this gigantic company today ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
#225 Winston Churchill
Founders · Jan 2022 · 62:06
in shoe dog when the founding of nike right ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
2021
Niraj Shah - Developing Every Skill - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 252]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2021 · 60:11
when you hear these stories phil knight wrote this book called shoe dog ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
#213 Michael Jordan: Driven From Within
Founders · Oct 2021 · 26:55
i did another episode on shoe dog now i've read two books on michael ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
#197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty
Founders · Aug 2021 · 36:50
phil knight explicitly says that in his uh autobiography shoe job ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
#191 Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)
Founders · Jul 2021 · 53:41
with shoe dog i think i a month or go or something like that ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
Michael Mayer - Business Boss Battles - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 40]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jul 2021 · 55:48
or entertaining books like shoe dog about building a business ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
Will Ahmed - Optimizing Human Performance – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 39]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jun 2021 · 34:51
the book shoe dog is a great book phil knight writes about creating nike ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
#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 · 32:32
and you know it's like phil knight is like the man because of shoe dog right ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
#168 - How to Reverse Engineer Businesses, The Indonesian King of Coal & the Story of Adida‪s‬
My First Million · Apr 2021 · 52:14
shoe dog is like super popular about the founding story of nike ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
2020
#486: Harley Finkelstein — Tactics and Strategies from Shopify, The Future of Retail, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2020 · 117:37
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 ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
#153 Bill Bowerman (Nike)
Founders · Nov 2020 · 3:32
i was actually um rereading through my highlights from phil knight the founder uh the co founder of nike his book shoe dog ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
#151 Frederick Smith (FedEx)
Founders · Oct 2020 · 12:07
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 ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
#148 John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography)
Founders · Oct 2020 · 10:00
i just recently uh reread my highlights for phil knight's ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
Pinduoduo
Acquired · Jul 2020 · 110:49
it's just a really good if you kind of like the like ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
#65 - Q&A with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-founder of Tiny
My First Million · Apr 2020 · 9:16
i really loved shoe dog which is phil knights autobiography he's the founder of nike ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
#109 Adi Dassler (Adidas)
Founders · Feb 2020 · 55:05
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 ▶ tap to hear this moment · 24s
2019
Disney, Plus
Acquired · Nov 2019 · 8:00
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 ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
Huawei
Acquired · Jul 2019 · 14:34
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 ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s
2018
#28 The Wright Brothers
Founders · Jun 2018 · 1:56
i'd recommend listening to shoe dog by the founder of nike phil knight ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
#22 How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
Founders · Mar 2018 · 6:04
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