According to a video interview on Forbes.com titled Skateboarder’s Millions Rob Dyrdek brought in $75 million in revenue from sales and endorsements in 2009. But he didn’t do it like other “big name athletes” he did it himself.
This empire isn’t like a Tony Hawk empire or a traditional big name athlete empire where they do their sport and then everything around them is sort of is put in place for them through their managers and agents and all this stuff,” Dyrdek tells Forbes. “This is a singular world that is sort of based off my skateboarding lifestyle and not me as a professional athlete.”
Was that a little slag thrown T. Hawk’s way? Looks like Rob is coming up. He did have this little note that he learned from Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson: “When you do everything yourself you’re a millionaire. When you hire great people to do everything for you you’re a billionaire.”
[Link: Forbes]
