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American businessman (born )

Paul J. Orfalea (born November 28, ) is an American businessman who founded the copy-chain Kinko's.^[1]

Orfalea was born in Los Angeles, California to Lebanese parents.^[2] He is currently a philanthropist and a visiting professor at California Lutheran University's School of Management, in the Global and International Studies Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB),^[3] at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California (USC)Marshall School of Business, and at the Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship for the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University.^[4]

Early life

Orfalea's father and grandmother ran clothing stores in Los Angeles.

According to Orfalea, he was a woodshop major in high school, and his typical report card was "two C's, three D's, and an F." Due to his dyslexia and attention deficit