[2] At Berkeley, he was a member of the Theta Zeta chapter of the national fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon.
[2] After unsuccessfully trying to return a pair of Levi's jeans that did not fit, Fisher noticed that most department stores only carried a few sizes; he realized Romanello was onto something.
[2] The store sold Levi's jeans as well as records and tapes in order to capture the 12-to-25-year-old target market.
[2] They went on to purchase Banana Republic, a small, two-store mail-order catalogue business; and also founded Old Navy which reached $1 billion in sales in four years.
[10] He was also a contributor to Teach For America, GreatSchools.net, and EdVoice, a statewide coalition of California business leaders and others who support education reform.
[11][12] He donated to the school's building campaigns and to other campus causes, including the athletics department; Haas' Fisher Gate is named in his and his wife's honor.
[7] Since founding the Gap in 1969, Fisher and his wife Doris began collecting contemporary Western art.
[1] His collection, largely housed at the Gap headquarters in San Francisco, includes comprehensive, career-spanning works by Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder and Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Chuck Close, and Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.