{"id":28622,"date":"2012-02-24T08:48:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28622"},"modified":"2012-02-24T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:32:03","slug":"heres-why-tcp-bought-into-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28622","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why TCP Bought Into Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2c50491f6f3fbeea15baef86d0b87516-1.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2c50491f6f3fbeea15baef86d0b87516-1.png','popup','width=420,height=420,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\/2012\/02\/2c50491f6f3fbeea15baef86d0b87516-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2C50491F6F3Fbeea15Baef86D0B87516-1\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/dealjournalaustralia\/2012\/02\/17\/billabongs-nixon-partner-trilantic-excited-by-growth\/?mod=google_news_blog\" target=\"_blank\">Deal Journal Australia<\/a><\/strong> interviewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trilanticpartners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trilantic Capital Partners<\/a><\/strong><strong>&#8216; <\/strong>partner<strong> Charlie Moore<\/strong> regarding the fund&#8217;s new investment in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nixonnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nixon<\/a><\/strong> brand and asked him why they would partner up with management and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong>. Among other things Moore said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we really like is that the business was founded by, and continues to be led by a entrepreneurial and dynamic duo, <strong>Andy Laats<\/strong> and <strong>Chad DiNenna<\/strong>. Andy founded the business shortly after picking up his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsb.stanford.edu\/mba\/\" target=\"_blank\">MBA at Stanford<\/a><\/strong> from the ground up, partnered by Chad. They determined that the action sports sector didn\u2019t have a watch brand clearly identified with folks clearly passionate about surfing, skating and snowboarding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would appear that TCP has their priorities straight, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/dealjournalaustralia\/2012\/02\/17\/billabongs-nixon-partner-trilantic-excited-by-growth\/?mod=google_news_blog\" target=\"_blank\">Deal Journal Australia<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal Journal Australia interviewed Trilantic Capital Partners&#8216; partner Charlie Moore regarding the fund&#8217;s new investment in the Nixon brand and asked him why they would partner up with management and Billabong. Among other things Moore said this: What we really like is that the business was founded by, and continues to be led by a [&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":[10,17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28622"}],"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=28622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28628,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28622\/revisions\/28628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}