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" I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys. "
Nick Woodman
Head
Three
Wore
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" Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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School
" 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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Entertainment
Content
" 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!' "
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Like
Me
" Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive. "
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" Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out. "
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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. "
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" I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that. "
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Own
I Can
You
" You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle. "
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You
Position
" I still drink a couple of Red Bulls every day. "
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Every Day
Red
Still
" I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It's authentic. It's not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create. "
Nick Woodman
People
Success
Think
" I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves. "
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Crazy
Friends
Purpose
" 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.' "
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Fun
Capture
Meaning
" One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's. "
Nick Woodman
Friend
Early
Who
" YouTube didn't really start to hit its stride until 2006. "
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Start
Until
YouTube
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Live
World
Time
" People don't go buy GoPro for the thing; they buy it for what the thing does. "
Nick Woodman
Thing
People
Buy
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Yourself
You
Only
" People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about. "
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Experiences
People
Passionate
" 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. "
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Care
Yourself
Thinking
" The magic of GoPro is that we are enabling the world to communicate in this new way, to express themselves in a new way, and it's snowballing. "
Nick Woodman
Themselves
Magic
New
" Losing other people's money was terrible. "
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Money
Terrible
Losing
" I'm half Puerto Rican. "
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Puerto Rican
Half
Rican
" 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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Organization
Person
Way
" A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket. "
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Computer
Mobile
Pocket
" Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit. "
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Really
Video
Word-Of-Mouth
" 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. "
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Surgery
Students
Watch
" I want to want to go to work in the morning. "
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Want
Morning
Go