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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Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.
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At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.
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If I'm a content creator, and I get recognition for my work, that's going to motivate me to spend even more time on my next production and make it even better.
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Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.
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People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about.
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I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.
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I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.
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When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.
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As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.
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Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.
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I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened.
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I want to want to go to work in the morning.
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I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.
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My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business.