True skate culture is about sharing, when one of you gets sponsored and can afford to build pipes and new equip you invite everybody down and sometimes give ska

True skate culture is about sharing, when one of you gets sponsored and can afford to build pipes and new equip you invite everybody down and sometimes give skate partners struggling money so they can afford to skate F/T and get into comps with you. Never been about meritocracy that I remember only when guys like Shaun White showed up and built private only pipes, ditched friends to hang out in VIP lounges ect. Skating empty pools listening to TSOL none of us were anything but friends who supported each other and were friends first and business after, I guess this would be the last thing you would want in business/startup culture. There were always women around skating and snowboarding with us too I don't get any of this article it certainly wasn't like this, W Coast circa early90s til now. One of our best friends was a sponsored female snowboarder who would pay for all of us to come heliskiing and boarding with her all season long, even the friends who couldn't ride for shit came too because true skateboarding culture.I don't see this working at all in the business unless you run a lab similar to MIT back in the Stallman days and are willing to put the community and friends above profits which seems like a good way to kill any business.