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It was only when Nike founder Phil Knight got cut from the baseball team as a high school freshman that his mother suggested he try out for track instead. Knight made the track team and he found he could run fast and even more he liked it. Ten years later, young and searching, Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high quality running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk...
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"Sam Walton used the money he earned in the army, along with some financial help from his family, to open his first store. Then he opened fourteen more. Then Sam had an even bigger idea. He wanted to build large stores in small towns and reduce the price of everything they stocked. Although other businessmen and potential partners laughed at him, this entrepreneur with humble beginnings used his resourcefulness to create Walmart, which would become...
3) Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs grew up surrounded by inventors, in sunny Silicon Valley, California. He and his friend Stephen Wozniak channeled their love of computers into their own inventions, building a successful company from Steve s garage. Steve thought that computers were the future, and his big ideas would transform the world and the way people use technology.
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"Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was ...? biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers. Through the success of his now-world-famous software company, Microsoft, Bill Gates became one of the wealthiest philanthropists in history. This fascinating story of a child...
10) Elon Musk
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"Engaging images accompany information about Elon Musk. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Mae had a dream to make one-of-a-kind hats. But the path for a Black female designer was unclear, so Mae made a way, leaving her home in the segregated South to study at the Chicago School of Millnery. Now, Mae had the skills, but craved the independence to create her own styles. So Mae found a way. In Philadelphia, she became the first Black woman to own a business on South Street. Whether you were Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Marian Anderson or...
13) Henry Ford
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Sketches the life of the inventor and businessman who with hard work and an innovative mind changed the car industry in ways that will never be duplicated.
14) Steve Jobs
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Highlights the life and accomplishments of the co-founder and long-time CEO of Apple Computers and former CEO of Pixar.
15) Sam Walton
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"Simple text and photographs present the life of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart"-- Provided by publisher.
16) Milton Hershey
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"Simple text and photographs present the life of Milton Hershey, founder of the Hershey Company"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fifteen-year-old lemonade entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer discusses how she became an entrepreneur at the age of four and why bee conservation became an important part of her business plan. Ulmer details how her business has taken her on "Shark Tank" and to the Obama White House, and she offers other kids tips for pursuing their passions.
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An introduction to the life and achievements of the founder of Tesla Motors describes his early achievements in computer programming, his creation of a tech empire, his electric cars designs and his ambition to create an alternative transportation system. --Publisher's description.