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My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

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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People are watching GoPro content not to decide whether they should buy it or not - they're watching it for the entertainment.

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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.

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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.

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You know what the best thing about morning ski trips are? McDonald's!

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The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It's not good for that person because they're not succeeding in their role. And it's not good for the organization because it's just not working.

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GoPro's capture devices and Kolor's software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content.

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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.

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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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Somebody captures an incredible video, shares it online, and inspires millions of other people to go and do the same with their GoPros, and then it happens again and again - and what you've got is this incredible snowball of stoked customers capturing and creating rad content with their GoPros.

Nick Woodman

My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

Nick Woodman

I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro.

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My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty.

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I'll let myself obsess over things.

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Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

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I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

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You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

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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 feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

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I'm half Puerto Rican.

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People don't go buy GoPro for the thing; they buy it for what the thing does.

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I come from surfing, and surfing is the worst cool-guy industry of all. I decided long ago to try and kill the cool guy.

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As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

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One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.

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Losing other people's money was terrible.

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I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service.

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I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

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In the early years, I would say GoPro's products were not that impressive.

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Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture.

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