A biography for Nick Woodmanhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm half Puerto Rican.”
“YouTube didn't really start to hit its stride until 2006.”
“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.”
“I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.”
“Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture.”
“A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.”
“I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.”
“I want to want to go to work in the morning.”
“Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out.”
“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.”
“At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.”
“Losing other people's money was terrible.”
“You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.”
“GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them.”
“On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.”
“I got an email from the Crown Prince of Norway asking me to talk at a summit for young Norwegian entrepreneurs. I ran to my wife and was like, 'Hey! I got an email from the Prince of Norway!'”
“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.”
“No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.”
“GoPro is ideal for pro-active capture, meaning, 'Hey, we're going to do something fun, and we're going to capture a video of it.'”
“If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of it.”