Ingvar Kamprad, a dyslexic boy who registered his mail order household goods business called Ikea at age 17, died on Saturday at his home in Smaland, Sweden. He was 91.

Kamprad was born March 30, 1926 and — despite struggles with dyslexia — exhibited an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age, selling matchboxes as a small child.

IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad started a furniture revolution at just 17 years old. ... When Kamprad was 17, his dad gave him a cash reward for making good grades in school despite his dyslexia.

Ingvar Kamprad, whose boyhood ... Born into a family of rural farmers, Mr. Kamprad was a self-described lazy, dyslexic child who flirted with far-right groups in Sweden as a teenager, ...

The father of Ingvar gave him some money for doing well in school even though he was dyslexic when he was 17 years old. Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA with the money he earned from it, an acronym for ...

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All Ikea pieces were given names, as Kamprad, who was dyslexic, had difficulty with numbers. ... Ingvar Kamprad, businessman, born 30 March 1926, died 27 January 2018. More about ...

Ingvar Kamprad, a Swedish entrepreneur who hid his fascist past and became one of the world’s richest men by turning simply-designed, low-cost furniture into the global Ikea empire, died ...