John Sperling

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  • Phoenix, AZ, United States
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John Sperling (born 1921) is a US billionaire who is credited with leading the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States. His fortune is based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which is now part of the publicly traded Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL). John Sperling received his undergraduate education at Reed College, Oregon, a master's from the University of California, Berkeley under the G.I. Bill, … Wikipedia
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John G. Sperling
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1921
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  • The Hard Life and Restless...

    John Sperling was born dirt-poor, fell in with Communists, and became a union organizer who led a strike that ended in disaster. Today, he runs the world's largest for-profit university -- and a company whose shares are defying gravity on Wall Street.
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    Sperling was his own first student. Poor, dyslexic, and semiliterate upon graduating from high school, he joined the merchant marines, traveled the world, and taught himself to read.
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    ...World's Richest People > John Sperling 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 < Previous Next > Other Lists : Sperling, John G 348 on World's ...
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  • USATODAY.com - Independent...

    The latest independent voice in this year's presidential campaign is that of an 83-year-old, self-made billionaire who wants to convince John Kerry and the Democrats that it's politically safe to be liberal.
    www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-08-18-metro-...

  • Wired 12.02: John Sperling...

    In 1994, John Sperling rubbed the lamp, and his company went public.
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