Nick Woodman
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Woodman in 2014
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| Born |
Nicholas D. Woodman June 24, 1975 |
| Residence | Woodside, California, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
| Occupation | Founder and CEO, GoPro |
| Net worth | $947 Million (November 2016) |
| Spouse(s) | Jill R. Scully |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) |
Dean Woodman Concepcion Socarras |
Nicholas D. "Nick" Woodman (born June 24, 1975) is an American businessman and philanthropist. Woodman is the founder and CEO of GoPro. ce the massively successful launch of the GoPro HERO 4 Black and Silver Editions in September 2014, GoPro has consistently failed to execute on many of its most critical strategic and operational initiatives under its founder and CEO Nick Woodman's leadership. In recent months, it has become abundantly clear that the broader investment community has lost all faith in Mr. Woodman's ability to lead the company and successfully execute a turnaround. While there is certainly no argument with the notion that Mr. Woodman has created some incredibly innovative and successful products, what has come into question is his ability to now manage and grow the business in the later stages of its business cycle.
Woodman is the son of Concepcion (née Socarras) and Dean Woodman. His father was born into a Quaker family and co-founded the investment bank Robertson Stephens; and his mother is of Hispanic descent and re-married Irwin Federman, General Partner of U.S. Venture Partners in 1992. Woodman grew up in Menlo Park, California and Atherton, California, attending the Menlo School, where he graduated in 1993. He developed his interest in surfing during high school and formed the high school's first surfing club. Woodman would sell t-shirts at high school football games to raise money for the surfing club. He earned a bachelor's degree in visual arts and a minor in creative writing from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. After school, Woodman founded two startups, both of which never fully made it off the ground. The first was a website called EmpowerAll.com, which attempted to sell electronic goods for no more than a $2 markup, and the second was Funbug, a gaming and marketing platform that gave users the chance to win cash prizes. Woodman took the lack of success from both companies personally. After failing to reach success on his own, Nick went home and received a $235,000 investment from his father, an investment banker in Silicon Valley, and used his parents connections to venture capital to launch his career as the head of GoPro.
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