Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

It sounds cheesy, but if you are having fun, people will love your company, you will be more successful, and more ideas will come your way.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

People don't go buy GoPro for the thing; they buy it for what the thing does.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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
Nick Woodman

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.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

YouTube didn't really start to hit its stride until 2006.

Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman

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