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Roy Larson Raymond (April 15, 1947 – August 26, 1993)〔 was an American businessman who founded the Victoria's Secret lingerie retail store.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Victoria's Secret )〕 Raymond was an alumnus of Tufts University and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Raymond worked for the Vicks company in their marketing department. On June 12, 1977,〔 he opened the first Victoria's Secret store at the Stanford Shopping Center after feeling embarrassed trying to purchase lingerie for his wife in an awkward, public department store environment. To open the store, he took a $40,000 bank loan and borrowed $40,000 from relatives. The company earned $500,000 in its first year. He quickly started a mail order catalog and opened three more stores. In 1982, after five years of operation, Raymond sold the Victoria's Secret company, with its six stores and 42-page catalogue, grossing $6 million per year, to Leslie Wexner, creator of The Limited, for $1 million.〔〔"About Us." (Limited Brands Timeline. ) Web. 24 Apr. 2013.〕 By the early 1990s, Victoria's Secret had become the largest American lingerie retailer, topping $1 billion. In 1984, Raymond personally invested £650,000 to start My Child's Destiny, a retail store for children, that went bankrupt in 1986.〔 On August 26, 1993, Raymond committed suicide by leaping off the Golden Gate Bridge at the age of 46.〔 ==In popular culture== In the 2010 film ''The Social Network'', Raymond is referenced by Sean Parker in order to persuade Mark Zuckerberg not to sell his company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Raymond (businessman)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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