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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. "
Problem
Important
People
" As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro. "
Everything
Out
Will
" 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. "
Sacrifice
You
Long
" A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket. "
Computer
Mobile
Pocket
" A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something. "
Something
Doing
Great
" At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself. "
Build
You
More
" Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out. "
Dangerous
Automobiles
" 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. "
Yourself
You
Only
" 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. "
Creative
Business
Freedom
" Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement. "
Myself
Single
Achievement
" Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises. "
Fabulous
Through
Movies
" Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive. "
Everyone
Over
Business
" Fear drives you a lot harder than success does. "
You
Than
Success
" 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.' "
Fun
Capture
Meaning
" GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them. "
Along
Other
People
" GoPro's capture devices and Kolor's software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content. "
Content
Creating
Sharing
" I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in. "
Sell
I Can
Believe
" 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. "
Surfing
Cool
Guy
" I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that. "
Evening
Time
Morning
" I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I'm confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it. "
Live
World
Time
" 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. "
Beginning
Small
Money
" I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened. "
Want
Wake Up
Off
" I enrolled in a race car driving school, where you go for three days, and they wanted to rent me a video camera and charge me $100 for every half-hour. "
Car
You
School
" I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides. "
Place
Purpose
Try
" 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. "
Team
Feel
Good
" 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. "
Job
Feel
Depression
" If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera. "
Follow
Never
Surfing
" 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. "
Time
Work
Me
" 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. "
Red
Bull
Choose
" 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. "
Growth
Capture
Unique
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