Buffett en Cook begonnen met krantenwijken: hoe dit baantje topmanagers vormde

Several Fortune 500 executives, including Warren Buffett and Tim Cook, began their careers delivering newspapers as children. The paper route taught them fundamental business principles such as inventory management, payment collection, and reliability. Buffett started at 13 delivering The Washington Post, while Cook woke at 3 a.m. to deliver papers in Alabama. These executives credit their early newspaper jobs with instilling values that shaped their later success in the corporate world. Though paper routes have largely disappeared due to declining print circulation, the executives who held