Nick Woodman - CEO of GoPro at Inc 500 5000

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Woodman was a visual arts major from UC San Diego who started a marketing company called funBag in the early 2000s.

He raised outside capital for the operation, and things were looking good. Then the tech bubble burst, and Woodman found himself failing to save his company and out of a job.

So in 2002, when he was inspired to try a startup again, he decided he’d do whatever he could to bootstrap the operation and build something that could be instantly profitable.

An idea struck him while surfing in Australia and Indonesia for five months. Woodman had been frustrated that he couldn’t take good action shots of himself or his friends while they were catching waves. Surfers were using disposable cameras strapped to their wrists with a rubber band. It would often fly off in the middle of the action and hit them in the face.

Woodman wanted to invent a strong, adjustable, elastic band that could secure a camera to a person’s body as they participated in an extreme sport and the GoPro camera story is now history.

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