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How Phil Knight’s Nike Memoir Inspired My Approach to VC Funding

What ‘Shoe Dog’ taught this venture capitalist about influencer marketing, building a global brand, and IPOs

Nicole Quinn
Published in
5 min readFeb 28, 2020

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This is part of the Marker series “Read Like a Boss,” where founders, CEOs, and leaders in business reflect on books that revolutionized their thinking, framed their career

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Nicole Quinn
Marker

Investor at Lightspeed, Stanford alum, Former Consumer Analyst at Morgan Stanley and British 100m sprinter