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
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I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It's authentic. It's not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create.
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Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera.
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When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.
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I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.
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It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.
best morning ski trips
You know what the best thing about morning ski trips are? McDonald's!
everybody life
Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.
passion surfing cameras
If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.
inspirational parent seven-days
To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.
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I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in
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On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.
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I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
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As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.