Traveling Salesmen

Who knew? I always thought that Chuck Taylor was some unknown basketball player who had a shoe named after him. It turns out that Chuck was actually more of a traveling salesman for Converse. His name graced over 500 million pairs of sneakers – that has to make him the most famous traveling salesman of all-time. Chuck died in 1969.

Chuck Taylor may have been the most famous traveling salesman but the most successful has to be Thomas Watson (he’s the guy who turned IBM into a powerhouse).