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Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman is the founder and CEO of GoPro, the action camera company he built from a rubber band and a wrist-mounted 35mm film camera during a 2002 surf trip in Australia. After two failed dot-com startups, he turned a frustrated attempt to photograph himself surfing into one of the world's most recognized camera brands. GoPro went public in 2014 at a $2.25B valuation, making Woodman briefly the highest-paid CEO in America. Despite a severe post-2015 downturn, he remains at the helm, having waived his salary, personally invested $2M in company stock, and launched the Mission 1 camera line in 2026.
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