Everything about Paul Orfalea totally explained
Paul Orfalea, nicknamed "Kinko" because of his curly red hair, born in
Los Angeles, California to parents of Lebanese descent, founded the copy-chain
Kinko's. He is currently a philanthropist and a visiting professor in the Global and International Studies Department of the
University of California, Santa Barbara and the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.
He was commemorated with a plaque by the community of
Isla Vista, which is next to the UCSB campus, where the original
Kinko's copy shop was founded.
Paul Orfalea founded Kinko's in 1970 near the University of California at Santa Barbara with a simple idea: provide college students with products and services they need at a competitive price. The space that Orfalea rented for his copy business was so small that the copy machine had to be lugged out onto the sidewalk. From its modest beginnings, Kinko's is now the world's leading business services chain. Today, there are over 1,500 Kinko's worldwide.
Orfalea also hired salespeople to sell notebooks and other stationery at the dorms of UCSB.
In 2005, Orfalea coauthored the book
Copy This! Lessons from a hyperactive dyslexic who turned a bright idea into one of America’s best companies. Indeed he seems to take pride in having
dyslexia and
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
“I get bored easily, and that's a great motivator,” he said. “I think everybody should have dyslexia and A.D.D.”
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Orfalea is a 1969 initiate of the Gamma Eta Chapter of
Pi Kappa Alpha at the University of Southern California.
He founded the Orfalea Foundation which among other things sponsors
NOW (TV series) with
David Brancaccio.
He also made a large donation to the
Cal Poly Orfalea College of Business, the business school within California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo Campus.
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