Nick Woodman sold 8.88 per cent of GoPro to Taiwanese manufacturing company for $200 million, making him worth at least $1.15 billion.
He may be a Californian surfer who throws around the word ‘dude’ and goes to work in a t-shirt – but Nicholas Woodman has not been taking it easy.
The 36-year-old is the mastermind behind GoPro – a wearable camera used by athletes to capture ski slopes or massive waves – and, as a result, the world’s newest billionaire.
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An appreciation of some of the greatest Porsche road- and race-going cars – and of the German manufacturer’s superb models of them available from its Porsche Design online store that would make superb last-minute gift ideas.
Porsche 911 GT3
The Porsche 911 GT3 RS will be remembered as one of the finest road cars of the past 20 years. Some so-called purists had been whining ever since 911s stopped whining as they went from air-cooled to water-cooled engines in the 993 to 996 transition back in 1998. Hopefully, those same purists were humble enough to regret their ill-chosen words as, over the next dozen years, the 911 remained the benchmark sports car as well as the most immediately identifiable car on the road.
And, as the 911 got ever faster, so also its range of abilities became more accessible to those of us not blessed with the talent of a Pat Long or a Jorg Bergmeister. Like humans, sports cars have to evolve and  … Pictures and more
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Bottlesurf.com caught up with a few of the boys hanging out on the North Shore in Hawaii for the Prime and WCT Events. Evan Geiselman, Matt Wilkinson, Paul Fisher and Jack Freestone open up to Bottle about love, women, getting rejected and everything else they feel about the Girls of Hawaii…
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