GoPro boss, Nick Woodman is one to keep his promises, even when the latter are expensive. He offered no less than $ 229 million to his former roommate!
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When you are a man of his word, it is to the end, what it costs. It's a little moral lesson that will leave behind, Nick Woodman, GoPro's founder, the famous camera business. He held a 10-year old promise made to his former roommate and offers him $ 229 million ...
Nick Woodman, best roommate in the world?
Originally no one could predict the future of GoPro cameras when Nick Woodman designed the first camera. It was then a student at San Diego University and shared a room with a roommate Neil Dana. The latter, also a student, was indirectly responsible for her first employee sales. Nick Woodman had then made a verbal promise: " if the cameras running, I give you 10% of the profits from the sale of these GoPro ".
Meanwhile, life has run its course and each of its tracks. Yet 10 years later, Nick Woodman has not forgotten his roommate and takes advantage of the explosion in sales of the GoPro camera to keep its promise. It has unveiled it offered 10% of its GoPro shares, amounting to $ 229 million to his friend and even offered her a new job, as director of music marketing strategy at GoPro.
It provides $ 229 million and a manager working for a 10 year old promise
GoPro has several years of a buzz around its products Indeed, thanks to the many sports that use these cameras to film their exploits. The company went public last year and now scrolls on the Nasdaq screens. GoPro displays an insolent growth year after year, it is noted for example in 2011, $ 234 million in revenue, and the following year $ 526 million in sales, and finally in 2013, $ 985 million ... Growth that pushes investors to finance projects of the American firm.
As highlighted in the Bloomberg newspaper, this generous gift from Nick Woodman to his roommate Neil Dana, will not ruin it, since his personal fortune is estimated at $ 2.3 billion and that the magazine "Fortune" decreed that the CEO of GoPro was the highest paid boss in the United States. Like what you better leave on good terms with his roommates, you never know!
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When you are a man of his word, it is to the end, what it costs. It's a little moral lesson that will leave behind, Nick Woodman, GoPro's founder, the famous camera business. He held a 10-year old promise made to his former roommate and offers him $ 229 million ...
Nick Woodman, best roommate in the world?
Originally no one could predict the future of GoPro cameras when Nick Woodman designed the first camera. It was then a student at San Diego University and shared a room with a roommate Neil Dana. The latter, also a student, was indirectly responsible for her first employee sales. Nick Woodman had then made a verbal promise: " if the cameras running, I give you 10% of the profits from the sale of these GoPro ".
Meanwhile, life has run its course and each of its tracks. Yet 10 years later, Nick Woodman has not forgotten his roommate and takes advantage of the explosion in sales of the GoPro camera to keep its promise. It has unveiled it offered 10% of its GoPro shares, amounting to $ 229 million to his friend and even offered her a new job, as director of music marketing strategy at GoPro.
It provides $ 229 million and a manager working for a 10 year old promise
GoPro has several years of a buzz around its products Indeed, thanks to the many sports that use these cameras to film their exploits. The company went public last year and now scrolls on the Nasdaq screens. GoPro displays an insolent growth year after year, it is noted for example in 2011, $ 234 million in revenue, and the following year $ 526 million in sales, and finally in 2013, $ 985 million ... Growth that pushes investors to finance projects of the American firm.
As highlighted in the Bloomberg newspaper, this generous gift from Nick Woodman to his roommate Neil Dana, will not ruin it, since his personal fortune is estimated at $ 2.3 billion and that the magazine "Fortune" decreed that the CEO of GoPro was the highest paid boss in the United States. Like what you better leave on good terms with his roommates, you never know!