{"id":18266,"date":"2010-09-27T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18266"},"modified":"2010-09-28T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T15:54:02","slug":"tony-hawk-talks-business-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18266","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk Talks Business In New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Hawk_howdid.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Hawk_howdid.jpg','popup','width=327,height=497,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Hawk_howdid-tm.jpg\" height=\"303\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Hawk Howdid\" \/><\/a><strong>Tony Hawk <\/strong>has a new book out and this time he&#8217;s written it with his sister <strong>Pat Hawk<\/strong> (who has time to write their own books these days). It&#8217;s titled, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/047063149X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=047063149X\" target=\"_blank\">How Did I Get Here? The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/149\/read-how-did-i-get-here.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Company<\/a><\/em><\/strong> spoke to Tony about the book and asked him what his biggest mistake has been.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was 18 or 19 &#8212; I was just signing my name on the dotted line everywhere I went. This one company was making Velcro wallets &#8212; really bad pink and blue ones. Probably the worst part for me was it ripped off the Vision Street Wear logo and made them say TONY HAWK GEAR. I didn&#8217;t even see them until they were in the store. That was the tipping point for me: I learned not to allow someone else to use my likeness and my name like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly, he didn&#8217;t mention the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16476\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Hawk Helmet Cam deal with Prime Entertainment<\/a><\/strong> in which he was forced to sue for $115,000 plus punitive damages. <em>How Did I Get Here<\/em> comes out Tuesday, October 5, 2010. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/047063149X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=047063149X\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to buy a copy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/149\/read-how-did-i-get-here.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Company<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Hawk has a new book out and this time he&#8217;s written it with his sister Pat Hawk (who has time to write their own books these days). It&#8217;s titled, How Did I Get Here? The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO. Fast Company spoke to Tony about the book and asked him what his biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18288,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18266\/revisions\/18288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}