{"id":6069,"date":"2009-03-04T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T03:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2009-03-05T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T17:20:18","slug":"firewire-not-going-down-with-perrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6069","title":{"rendered":"Firewire Not Going Down With Perrin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/logo-bw.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/logo-bw.jpg','popup','width=481,height=111,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\/2009\/03\/logo-bw-tm.jpg\" height=\"46\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Logo-Bw\" \/><\/a>Their lead investor for the past three years may have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5976\" target=\"_blank\">declared bankruptcy<\/a><\/strong> this week, but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firewiresurfboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firewire Surfboards<\/a><\/strong> would like everyone to know that <strong>Matthew Perrin&#8217;s<\/strong> financial woe&#8217;s have nothing to do with them, according to a press release posted on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/industry-news\/firewire-not-impacted-by-investors-personal-bankruptcy_24916\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Firewire was saddened to learn that Matthew Perrin, one of the companies lead investors over the past 3 years, had filed for bankruptcy protection in Australia due to real estate and other business dealings unrelated to Firewire.  . . . &#8220;Matthew&#8217;s commitment was one of the foundations on which Firewire was built&#8221;, said Firewire CEO Mark Price, &#8220;and he along with our other lead investors, combined with our innovative product and Taj&#8217;s success, have allowed Firewire to develop into a globally recognized surfboard brand in a relatively short space of time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having one of your lead investors run out of money doesn&#8217;t seem like a good thing for the business, does it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/industry-news\/firewire-not-impacted-by-investors-personal-bankruptcy_24916\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their lead investor for the past three years may have declared bankruptcy this week, but Firewire Surfboards would like everyone to know that Matthew Perrin&#8217;s financial woe&#8217;s have nothing to do with them, according to a press release posted on Surfline.com. Firewire was saddened to learn that Matthew Perrin, one of the companies lead investors [&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":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069"}],"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=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}