John Sperling
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1921 –
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Who is John Sperling?
John Glen Sperling is an American businessman 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. For ventures ranging from pet cloning to green energy, he has widely been described as an "eccentric" self-made man by the Washington Post and other media.
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- Born
- 1921
- Also known as
- John G Sperling
- John G. Sperling
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Reed College
( - 1948) - University of California, Berkeley
- University of Cambridge
- Reed College
- Employment
- Executive Chairman, Apollo Group
- Lived in
- Arizona
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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