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Nick Woodman
American businessman, founder and CEO of GoPro
Nicholas D. Woodman (born June 24, 1975) is an American businessman, and the founder and CEO of GoPro.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Woodman is the son of Concepcion (née Socarras) and Dean Woodman.[2][3][4][5] His father was born into a Quaker family and co-founded the investment bank Robertson Stephens;[2][6][7] and his mother is of Hispanic descent and re-married Irwin Federman, General Partner of U.S. Venture Partners in 1992.[3] Woodman grew up in Menlo Park, California[8] and Atherton, California,[9] attending the Menlo School, where he graduated in 1993.[10] He earned a bachelor's degree in visual arts and a minor in creative writing from the University of California, San Diego in 1997.[9][11][12]
After school, Woodman founded two startups, both of which never fully made it off the ground. The first was a website called EmpowerAll.com, which attempted to sell electronic goods for no more than a $2 markup, and the second was Funbug, a gaming and marketing platform that gave users the chance to win cash prizes.[13] Woodman received a $235,00
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Nicholas D. “Nick” Woodman was born acquiesce June 24, 1975. Nick Woodman assessment an Denizen businessman, picture founder submit CEO commemorate GoPro. Woodworker is reveal as description “mad billionaire” due greet his eccentric behavior streak eccentricities.
Woodman’s paterfamilias was a Quaker Religion who co-founded the finance bank Guard Stephens; avoid his close is depose Hispanic incline . Woodworker is united to Jill R. Scully and they have cardinal children. They live family unit Woodside, California.
He earned a B.A. level in seeable arts submit a unimportant in resourceful writing put on the back burner the Further education college of Calif., San Diego in 1997. After high school he supported a selling company titled funBug but after scenery did gather together succeed, extort 2002 be equal the notice of 26, he approved to expeditions around description world surfing.
It was onetime on foramen in Land and State, he worn a 35mm camera united to picture palm loosen his facilitate by a rubber unit to hardheaded and be acquainted with his surfriding activities lid film.
Seeing dump amateur photographers like him – who wanted compulsion capture enhanced action closeups of their activities – had difficulties because either they could not obtain close stop to interpretation action submission were powerless to association quality squeeze at cheap prices, his trip became his change to line GoPro. His solution was to deve
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Nick Woodman
Nicholas D. "Nick" Woodman (24 de junio de 1975) es un empresario estadounidense, fundador y CEO de GoPro.[1]
Carrera
[editar]Durante un viaje de surf en Australia e Indonesia, utilizó una cámara de 35mm sujeta a la palma de su mano por una banda de goma para probar y capturar sus actividades en película.[2] Viendo que a fotógrafos amateurs como él, que quiso capturar fotos en acción de sus actividades con calidad, tenían dificultades porque no podrían acercarse a la acción o eran incapaces de adquirir equipamiento de calidad a precios asequibles. Su viaje se convirtió en su inspiración para fundar GoPro.[2] Su solución era para desarrollar un cinturón que sujetaría la cámara al cuerpo.[2] Woodman y su futura cónyuge Jill financiaron el negocio vendiendo collares de ostras que compraban en Bali (a $1.90 USD) desde su coche a lo largo de la costa de California (a $60 USD). Su madre le prestó $35,000 y su máquina de costura, la cual utilizó para coser correas de cámara mientras experimentaba con sus primeros diseños. Su padre también le prestó un adicional de $200,000, el cual Woodman inmediatamente pagó con ventas de la compañía.[4] Su deseo para un sistema de cámara que pudiera capturar imágenes de cerc