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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 11:39, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Parts of this article (early life and first half of career) read like they were written by GoPro PR, and other parts (second half of career) read like they were written by angry laid-off employees. There were pretty bad problems with POV/vandalism in the past (ex. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Nick_Woodman&type=revision&diff=757308687&oldid=757308674), so this seems to be an ongoing issue. The second half of the career section needs the most help. I don't think "he commissioned a yacht, then cut all these jobs, then got sued, and was finally named worst CEO" is what should be there. I removed a particularly problematic sentence ("anything other than a string of failures"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhessela ( talk • contribs) 15:13, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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1. Add 3 new paragraphs to the intro. New intro would read as follows.
Nicholas D. "Nick" Woodman (born June 24, 1975) is an American businessman and philanthropist. Woodman is the founder and CEO of GoPro. [1]
After graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 1997 [2], Woodman founded two startups including an e-commerce website called EmpowerAll.com and an online gaming company called funBug.com. While neither of the companies was successful, Woodman remained passionate about pursuing a career as an entrepreneur. [3]
In 2002, Woodman founded GoPro following an international surfing trip where he had the idea to create a wrist based action camera [4]. In the following years, Woodman went from selling wrist-based 35mm film cameras out of his 1971 Volkswagen Bus to leading GoPro, a household brand name and producer of versatile action cameras. [5]
Woodman resides in Woodside, California, with his wife Jill and their three children. [6]
2. Revise last sentence in Early Life and Education to be more factual, objective. New sentence would read as follows.
Nick received a $235,000 investment from his father, an investment banker in Silicon Valley, to launch GoPro. [7]
3. Add sentence to end of Career section. New sentence would read as follows.
During the same year GoPro launched a trio of new products - Hero5 Black, Hero5 session, Karma drone [8].
4. Edit removed per note below.
5. Add GoPro logo to the top of the article.
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Justin Goldsborough ( talk) 17:30, 17 August 2017 (UTC) Justin Goldsborough
Although the foundation hasn't disclosed all of its contributions or philanthropic work, they have disclosed that they spent "$4 million last year to help build a community center in Montana, and $2.85 million in 2015 to help a child abuse prevention center in San Francisco." As stated in Zombie philanthropy: The rich have stashed billions in donor-advised charities — but it’s not reaching those in need . The request for a statement from the Washington Post article was an opportunity to disclose these expenditures, and even though it wasn't comprehensive, it should be included here.
Penguino35 ( talk) 23:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Seeing there is no discussion or dispute after 4 days. Will make edit regarding the donation amounts and cite source above. If there is a better source or need to edit - please discuss here. Thank you.-- Penguino35 ( talk) 19:45, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 11:39, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Parts of this article (early life and first half of career) read like they were written by GoPro PR, and other parts (second half of career) read like they were written by angry laid-off employees. There were pretty bad problems with POV/vandalism in the past (ex. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Nick_Woodman&type=revision&diff=757308687&oldid=757308674), so this seems to be an ongoing issue. The second half of the career section needs the most help. I don't think "he commissioned a yacht, then cut all these jobs, then got sued, and was finally named worst CEO" is what should be there. I removed a particularly problematic sentence ("anything other than a string of failures"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhessela ( talk • contribs) 15:13, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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1. Add 3 new paragraphs to the intro. New intro would read as follows.
Nicholas D. "Nick" Woodman (born June 24, 1975) is an American businessman and philanthropist. Woodman is the founder and CEO of GoPro. [1]
After graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 1997 [2], Woodman founded two startups including an e-commerce website called EmpowerAll.com and an online gaming company called funBug.com. While neither of the companies was successful, Woodman remained passionate about pursuing a career as an entrepreneur. [3]
In 2002, Woodman founded GoPro following an international surfing trip where he had the idea to create a wrist based action camera [4]. In the following years, Woodman went from selling wrist-based 35mm film cameras out of his 1971 Volkswagen Bus to leading GoPro, a household brand name and producer of versatile action cameras. [5]
Woodman resides in Woodside, California, with his wife Jill and their three children. [6]
2. Revise last sentence in Early Life and Education to be more factual, objective. New sentence would read as follows.
Nick received a $235,000 investment from his father, an investment banker in Silicon Valley, to launch GoPro. [7]
3. Add sentence to end of Career section. New sentence would read as follows.
During the same year GoPro launched a trio of new products - Hero5 Black, Hero5 session, Karma drone [8].
4. Edit removed per note below.
5. Add GoPro logo to the top of the article.
File:GoPro_logo_NickWoodman.jpg
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Justin Goldsborough ( talk) 17:30, 17 August 2017 (UTC) Justin Goldsborough
Although the foundation hasn't disclosed all of its contributions or philanthropic work, they have disclosed that they spent "$4 million last year to help build a community center in Montana, and $2.85 million in 2015 to help a child abuse prevention center in San Francisco." As stated in Zombie philanthropy: The rich have stashed billions in donor-advised charities — but it’s not reaching those in need . The request for a statement from the Washington Post article was an opportunity to disclose these expenditures, and even though it wasn't comprehensive, it should be included here.
Penguino35 ( talk) 23:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Seeing there is no discussion or dispute after 4 days. Will make edit regarding the donation amounts and cite source above. If there is a better source or need to edit - please discuss here. Thank you.-- Penguino35 ( talk) 19:45, 3 July 2020 (UTC)