Len Riggio's Childhood ku New York
Riggio anabadwira mumzinda wa Manhattan ku New York, pa February 28, 1941, ku Little Italy.
Mwana wamwamuna wovala zovala komanso woponya mphoto (yemwe ankayendetsa galimoto), kuyambira ali ndi zaka zinayi analeredwa ku Bensonhurst, Brooklyn pafupi ndi banja lalikulu.
Mu sukulu ya galamala, Riggio wachichepere anadutsa awiri, adalowa ku Brooklyn Technical High School ali ndi zaka khumi ndi ziwiri, ndipo anamaliza maphunziro ake mu 1958. Analowa ku yunivesite ya New York ndipo anayamba kuphunzira ntchito zamakono zamagetsi, ndiye zamalonda, usiku.
Wolemba Mapazi ku Mwini Wofesi
Pamene Riggio adapita ku NYU, adagwira ntchito yosungirako mabuku ku yunivesite ya Greenwich Village, poyamba ngati wolemba makampani opanga $ 1.10 pa ora. Pambuyo pake, adalimbikitsidwa kukhala wothandizira pa $ 140 pa sabata. Mu 1965, pamene adakali kupita ku NYU, akumva osakhutira ndi momwe bukhuli likugwiritsidwira ntchito ndikutsimikiziranso kuti akhoza kuchita ntchito yabwinoko, iye adalumikiza pamodzi $ 5,000 ndipo adatsegula malo ogulitsira malo ogulitsira pambali. Anayitanira sitoloyo Sukulu ya Sukulu ya Ophunzira (SBX).
Kukhala Barnes & Noble - Kuwonjezera Ufumu wa Riggio Bookstore
Bukhu la Ophunzira Buku linakula bwino ndipo patapita zaka zingapo, Riggio adalimbikitsa bizinesiyo ku makampani asanu ndi imodzi a koleji ku East Coast.
Mu 1971, adapeza cholowacho, akulephera kusindikizira mabuku ku Barnes & Noble ku Fifth Avenue ndi 18th Street kwa $ 750,000 ndipo adasandulika kukhala "Bukhu Lalikulu Kwambiri Padziko Lonse," ndipo ali ndi mayina 150,000 odziwika.
Ali ndi mbiri yotchulidwa ndi maudindo ambiri, m'ma 1970, Barnes & Noble adayambanso kutchuka.
Riggio adatsegulira Sale Annex 40,000 mapazi pamsewu kuchokera ku sitima ya Fifth Avenue flagship. Barnes & Saleble Annex Annex anali ndi zotsalira komanso mabuku ena ogulitsa malonda ndi mawu awo, "Ngati munalipira mtengo, simunazipeze ku Barnes & Noble."
Riggio anapitiliza kuchulukitsa malo ake ogulitsa mabuku ku koleji komanso mabuku ake ogulitsa mabuku omwe amawonetsera pa Sales Annex, pamene adapezanso mabotolo aang'ono ndi makina osindikizira mabuku, kuphatikizapo B. Dalton. Kwa zaka zambiri, adapeza masitolo ambirimbiri, ndipo adatsata njira yosungiramo malonda yotchedwa Borders , yomwe inayambitsa ndondomeko ya Barnes & Noble superstore yokhala ndi zipangizo zam'mwamba, malo osungirako khofi, ndi malo ambiri kuti asunge ndi kuwerenga.
Njira Zogulitsa ndi Kulemba Mabuku a Riggio
M'zaka za m'ma 1970, bizinesi yomwe inapezedwa inalimbikitsa Barnes & Noble kufika kwa makasitomala-makalata, ndipo B & N anayamba kufalitsa buku lawo mabuku , monga wogulitsa miliyoni miliyoni Columbia Columbia the World by John Garrity. Mu 2003, kampaniyo inapeza Sterling Publishers.
Monga bizinesi yogulitsa mabuku inasuntha pa intaneti chifukwa cha Amazon.com, Riggio anayambitsa barnesandnoble.com. Pamene e-book revolution inagwira, iye anapanga Barnes & Noble NOOK e-reader ndi e-book bizinesi, yomwe imaphatikizapo utumiki wotsindikiza wa PubIt! Womwe umapatsa olemba kuti athe kufalitsa mabuku awo e-e-mail ndikuwapangitsa kukhalapo kudzera bn.com.
(Mu 2013, PubIt! Idasinthidwa ndi kutchulidwanso kuti SANKHA
Mu 2010, Weekly Publishers dzina lake Len Riggio "Munthu wa Chaka" chifukwa chopereka kwa buku kusindikiza makampani.
Len Riggio Quotes
"Mtundu wanga ndi New York City."
- Businessweek
"Pali 30,000 mini-delicatessens mu malonda a ku America ndipo ndifefepasitanti yokha."
- Forbes , 1976
"Bizinesi iliyonse yomwe idakhazikitsidwa isanafike chaka cha 1997 idzakhala yosungidwa chaka cha 2010."
- yomwe ili mu New York Magazine
"Zotsatira zake [zachuma cha 2008] zidzakhala" malo a Darwinian "(okhawo omwe adzapulumuka kwambiri), ndipo mitundu ya malonda idzayenera kusintha kapena kuyang'anizana ndi kutha. Tili ndipitirize kusintha, ndipo tikukonzekera kukhala kuzungulira kwa nthawi yaitali. "
- kuchokera ku kalata yotseguka kwa antchito, inakonzedwanso mu Wall Street Journal , 2008
Mphatso za Len Riggio ku Maphunziro
Riggio amagwiritsa ntchito nthawi yake pophunzitsa anthu, kuphunzitsa nthawi zonse ku koleji, kupereka ndondomeko yoyamba, komanso kukhala membala wa Bungwe la New York Fund la Zophunzitsa Anthu.
Riggio anatsogoleredwa ndi anthu onse ku sukulu ya sekondale, alma mater, Brooklyn Technical High School. Waphunzitsidwa ku Academy of Entrepreneurs Awards ku Babson College komanso ku Texas A & M Retail Hall of Fame ndipo ali ndi digiri ya doctorate ku Long Island University, Baruch College ya City University of New York, ndi Bentley College.
Ntchito Yachifundo ndi Chikhalidwe
Len Riggio wakhala akugwira ntchito zambiri zothandiza. Anatumikira monga Pulezidenti wa Dia Art Foundation komwe adatsogolera ndikuthandizira kumanga Dia: Beacon, nyumba yosungiramo zojambulajambula zapamwamba kwambiri. Iye wakhala akutumikira pa mabungwe pafupifupi aŵiri osapindulitsa kuphatikizapo Children's Defense Fund, Black Children's Community Crusade ndi Italian American Foundation ndipo adalandira mphoto zambiri pamayendedwe ake ndi zachifundo, kuphatikizapo Ellis Island Medal of Honor, Medallion ya Frederick Douglass, ndi Mphoto ya Americanism, ulemu waukulu woperekedwa ndi League Anti-Defamation League, yomwe inavomereza ntchito ya Riggio "kukondwerera zosiyana ndikupanga maloto a ufulu ndi kufanana ndi chenicheni kwa Ambiri ambiri."
Kupuma pantchito
Pa April 27, 2016, Riggio, adalengeza kuti adzatuluka monga Wachiwiri wa Kampani pamsonkhano wa pachaka wa September 2016, ndipo adanena kuti akufuna kukhalabe ku Barnes & Noble Board of Directors.