You Only Have to Be Right Once by Randall Lane

Author:Randall Lane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2014-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Nick Woodman, GoPro:

Chasing the Thrillionaire

It’s hard to get too jealous of Sean Parker, Drew Houston, and other hacker prodigies, who took to computers the way Mozart took to piano. But then there’s Nicholas Woodman, the surfer dude who decided that he really needed to figure out how to take pictures of himself on the waves with a disposable camera. He’s now a billionaire and not yet forty. The GoPro founder is also an apt reminder of two things: First, that technology has blown everything wide open. An idea that only Eastman Kodak could have pulled off a generation ago—assuming, of course, their corporate-think could have even conjured it—can now be executed by a kid with his mom’s sewing kit and the phone number for a random manufacturer in China. (A huge dose of social media doesn’t hurt.) Second, pluck is as important as brains. Woodman was so determined to make GoPro work that he fed himself intravenously and peed out the window, saving the time needed to walk to the kitchen and bathroom. Ryan Mac got to see this man-teen’s determination firsthand in 2013, from the slopes of Montana to the waves of Mavericks to the skies over California wine country.

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