Entrepreneurs Who Changed History

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CHIP WILSON

1956–

From small beginnings designing and selling activewear for the snowboarding, surfing, and skating communities in Calgary, Canadian Chip Wilson entered the growing market of yoga clothing. Credited with starting the “athleisure” retail category, he transformed his yoga clothing range into a global business now worth more than $30 billion.

Born in southern California, Dennis “Chip” Wilson’s interest in both sport and clothing manufacture began in childhood. Wilson’s parents were college athletes, his father later becoming a physical education teacher and his mother a seamstress. An ...