{"id":52251,"date":"2017-12-15T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52251"},"modified":"2017-12-20T07:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:37:27","slug":"nick-woodmans-wonderful-horrible-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52251","title":{"rendered":"Nick Woodman&#8217;s Wonderful Horrible Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NickWoodman-MathewScottPANO_334563-450x209.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52252\" height=\"209\" width=\"450\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NickWoodman-MathewScottPANO_334563-450x209.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NickWoodman-MathewScottPANO_334563-200x93.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NickWoodman-MathewScottPANO_334563-768x356.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NickWoodman-MathewScottPANO_334563.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/201802\/tom-foster\/gopro-camera-drone-challenges.html\">Inc. Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> lays out the story of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=gopro\">GoPro&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0wild successes and failures<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in a rather sympathetic profile of founder <strong>Nick Woodman<\/strong> which begins with this sentence:\u00a0Nick Woodman is crying.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a decade of breakneck growth, GoPro held one of the most successful tech IPOs of 2014, which earned Woodman comparisons to Steve Jobs. But the past two years have been a cautionary tale: botched product rollouts, sweeping layoffs, a giant new initiative shuttered. The company was profitable each year following its bootstrapped launch, but it has lost money every quarter from the end of 2015 until the third quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Though we&#8217;ve always appreciated Mr. Woodman&#8217;s ability to recklessly enjoy his successes, we&#8217;re not sure there are any major lesson&#8217;s to be learned here, however, that didn&#8217;t stop him from lining up some life tips. Jump to the end of the story if you don&#8217;t have time for the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/201802\/tom-foster\/gopro-camera-drone-challenges.html\">Inc.<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inc. Magazine lays out the story of GoPro&#8217;s\u00a0wild successes and failures\u00a0in a rather sympathetic profile of founder Nick Woodman which begins with this sentence:\u00a0Nick Woodman is crying. After a decade of breakneck growth, GoPro held one of the most successful tech IPOs of 2014, which earned Woodman comparisons to Steve Jobs. But the past two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52251"}],"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=52251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52276,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52251\/revisions\/52276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}