Me, Pre, and the Birth of Nike
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, since its start in 1972, Nike has employed nearly half a million people. Only four have outlasted our next storyteller, Steve Bence. He is the author of 1972: Pre, UO Track, Nike Shoes and My Life with Them All.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | Music or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories. |
| 0:48.4 | Up next, a sports story, an innovation story, and so much more. |
| 0:53.4 | Since its start in 1972, Nike has employed nearly a half a million |
| 0:58.0 | people. Only four have outlasted our next storyteller, Steve Bence. Bence is Nike's program director |
| 1:06.0 | in global sourcing and manufacturing. It was an all-American runner under legendary track coach at Oregon, |
| 1:12.8 | Bill Bowerman, who became the co-founder of Nike. Let's take a listen. |
| 1:18.5 | Hi, my name's Steve Bence. I was born in Tennessee. I started kindergarten in Japan, |
| 1:23.9 | and I graduated from high school in Spain. I went to the University of Oregon to run track, |
| 1:30.5 | and later started with Nike. The way I discovered running was during my junior year in high school. |
| 1:37.7 | I went out for football in seventh grade because all my friends were going out for football. |
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