Chris Gardner
Entrepreneur and motivational speaker
Chris Gardner is an American businessman and motivational speaker who founded a brokerage firm after a period of homelessness. His memoir The Pursuit of Happyness was made into a film.
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American Born 1954 in Milwaukee, United States
About Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on February 9, 1954. He grew up in poverty, and later became homeless while he was a trainee at the brokerage Dean Witter Reynolds. He started his own firm, Gardner Rich, in Chicago in 1987. Published in 2006, his memoir The Pursuit of Happyness reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list. A film of the same name, with Will Smith in the lead role, came out later that year. Gardner also wrote Start Where You Are, and he speaks publicly about overcoming obstacles. He has been a board member of the National Fatherhood Initiative.