100 Dyslexics in 150 Words or Less. Paul Orfalea
Born 11/27/1947 in California. He managed to pass high school with a D average, enrolling at USC in finance.
His learning problems made it hard until a professor grade him for the content, not the spelling errors.
After graduation with a loan of $5,000, he leased a 100 sq–ft garage on the way to campus, and a Xerox 2400 photocopier, deciding to name it Kinko’s, using his nickname.
Specializing, in economic 24/seven copying service, by 1997, he had over 127 Kinkos and by 2004 more than 1,000, and headquarters in Dallas.
In 2004, FedEx bought Kinko’s for $2.4 billion.
Orfalea now runs his Family Foundation, supporting philanthropic efforts towards children.
“Due to dyslexia, in 2nd grade, I couldn’t recite the alphabet. At 16, I could get by in a class with reading, never with spelling.”
