Nick Woodman

I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I'm confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it.

Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.

In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.

Somebody captures an incredible video, shares it online, and inspires millions of other people to go and do the same with their GoPros, and then it happens again and again - and what you've got is this incredible snowball of stoked customers capturing and creating rad content with their GoPros.

I think that that's something that's pretty interesting about a GoPro - it's the one camera that we know of that you can combine with like cameras to form new cameras. So it's a bit of a modular system.

My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.

Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you're on that track, and then the market collapses, and you're out of a job. You're trying to save your investors' investment, and it doesn't work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal.

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.

I want to want to go to work in the morning.