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Nick Woodman founded this company on a $35,000 loan from his mom in 2002. The rise of this company has been amazing to watch. It really is a great product line.
by zecho 12y ago
Nick Woodman founded this company on a $35,000 loan from his mom in 2002. The rise of this company has been amazing to watch. It really is a great product line. What's most amazing is how the camera basically marketed itself with the rise in both action sports and online video. Some damn lucky timing.
- grinich 12y agoAre action sports really that new? People have been skateboarding, surfing, and mountain biking for decades.
- andrewtbham 12y agoThey are not new. but they have been growing over the last 10 years, in part because of the X Games.
- componentr 12y agoI believe it's just that GoPro + Internet allows for more action sports footage from many more perspectives to be broadcast to a wider audience compared to what was available ten years ago. I know theberrics.com uses GoProp for a lot of their footage.
- barrynolan 12y agoNew in the sense that GoPro has opened access to them - we ride, climb, fall, swim from the persons perspective. I'd wager their perennial popularity on the youtubes drives interest/adoption in action sports
- conradev 12y agoMy favorite part is that GoPro doesn't have to film its own commercials. It can just stitch together user submitted material: http://gopro.com/videos/video-of-the-day/submit http://gopro.com/videos/video-of-the-day/submit
- alexcroox 12y agoShameless self promotion, I've been collecting some of the best for about 5 years now http://goproheroes.com/ http://goproheroes.com/