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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As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.
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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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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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People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about.
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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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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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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 don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened.
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I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.
You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.
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A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.
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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.
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.
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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.