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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. "

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" I think that that's something that's pretty interesting about a GoPro - it's the one camera that we know of that you can combine with like cameras to form new cameras. So it's a bit of a modular system. "

Nick Woodman

Think

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" To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it. "

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

" I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26. "

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

" I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened. "

" Losing other people's money was terrible. "

" 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!' "

Nick Woodman

Wife

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative. "

" What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video. "

" 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. "

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

" People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about. "

" The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera. "

" 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. "

" Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Nick Woodman

Time

Work

" 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. "

" GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them. "

" 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. "

" If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera. "

Nick Woodman

Never

Surfing