Wallace Wally Amos, the founder of Famous Amos cookies, has died at the age of 88.
Amos even got R&B legend Marin Gaye to invest in his sweets company early on.
He stopped me in mid-pitch and said, Wally, Wally…hey, wait a minute, man.
Wally Amos in his home office in Kailua, Hawaii.Lucy Pemoni/AP
If youre doin it, thats Ok, Ill invest in it.'
And just like that, he was in for the $10,000 I needed, he added.
Amos got his G.E.D.
while in the Air Force before he joined Willam Morris Agency.
(About $42 million in todays currency.)
Four years later, President Ronald Reagan awarded Amos an Award of Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Outside of cookie-baking, Amos appeared as a guest onThe JeffersonsandTaxi, and alsoThe Office.
He eventually wrote several books, includingThe Cookie Never Crumblescookbook andThe Path to Success is Paved with Positive Thinking.
