Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman
Nicholas D. "Nick" Woodmanis an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of GoPro...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 June 1975
CitySanta Clara County, CA
CountryUnited States of America
control dropping led love picking planes radio sports stuff surfing
When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.
companies company great market save sell successful trying work
I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you're on that track, and then the market collapses, and you're out of a job. You're trying to save your investors' investment, and it doesn't work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal.
Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture.
great
A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.
Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit.
aiming clear keeping people starts
Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.
brand built bull capable humans inspired lifestyle platform sold
I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can. Red Bull is a platform to celebrate all that humans are capable of accomplishing. They built a lifestyle movement, a brand that sold this product.
A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.
bulls
I still drink a couple of Red Bulls every day.
capture facto image standard
If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.
decided since time
I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I'm confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it.
ask care components family start
You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.
captured hip using virtual watch
In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.
capture few originally photos sole themselves videos
I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.