11 real-life entrepreneurs with lives so crazy they deserve their own movie
The stories of these founders are anything but ordinary.
Roger Cusa
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Hollywood has always invested money in actors who dramatically tell how the origins of companies that have changed the world came about.
Mark Zuckerberg ,
Steve Jobs, and
Ray Kroc are just a few of the entrepreneurs whose stories can put you on the edge of your seat. Here are 11 business men and women who deserve their own feature film.
1. Nick Woodman, GoPro
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After launching and failing with two startups at the age of 27 - and losing millions of investor dollars in the process - Woodman decided to go on a surf trip to Australia and Indonesia. In order to film himself on the waves, the entrepreneur developed a device with a rubber band, a piece of broken surfboard and a Kodak camera .
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As a 12 year-old he was dominating amateur contests in his home state of California, and by age 14 he had made the transition to pro. Just two years later, Hawk was widely regarded as the best skateboarder in the world. Alongside Steve Caballero, Rodney Mullen, Mike McGill and Lance Mountain and other elite skaters, he was part of the Bones Brigade. By the time he was 25, he had won 73 of 103 contests at the professional level and finished second 19 times.
Tony, you have been accumulating victories one after the other for so many years. One great moment in that arc was when you landed the first ever 900 at the X Games in 1999. You launched at full speed in the air, twisted your body two and a half times (900 degrees), and landed it. Everyone was blown away: until then, this trick had existed only in theory. Were you taken by surprise, too?
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