![]() Kinko's played a significant role in the development of American counterculture in the 1980s and 1990s. ![]() He left the company in 2000, following a dispute with the investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice ("CDR"), to which he had sold a large stake in the company three years earlier. Its first copy shop, which Orfalea opened with a sidewalk copy machine, was in the college community of Isla Vista, California next to the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Paul Orfalea, whose nickname was "Kinko" because of his curly hair, founded the company as Kinko's in 1970.
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