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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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" Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element. "

" My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Now I'm the father of three young boys, I find myself using GoPro to film them more than anything - trips to the amusement park, the beach, the pool - just chasing them around as they grow. "

" 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. "

" I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people. "

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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. "