47) From eco surfboard startup into global industry authority with Firewire’s CEO Mark Price
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What did it take for our guest today to help an eco surfboard startup become an industry authority and leader? What do we need to inspire a collective shift to valuing our needs over our desires?
Mark Price, CEO of Firewire surfboards and former executive at Reef and RipCurl, shares his wisdom with you.
HIGHLIGHTS:
[7:40] Mark walks through the process of manufacturing conventional surfboards versus Firewire's eco-conscious surfboards.
[11:49] Mark's greatest personal challenge in growing Firewire from a startup.
[16:08] How Mark balances longterm vision with current goals.
[20:32] What Mark believes has been key to Firewire going from startup to becoming a global authority.
[21:49] Kaméa: "What do you see as a common struggle that eco entrepreneurs face today?"
[22:16] Mark: "If you're looking to start a company with an eco component, that cannot be the only point of difference."
[25:57] Mark: "You have to be optimistic and fight the good fight."
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
| 0:26.8 | We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | And you can help us out so, so much through a paid substack subscription to my newsletter at |
| 0:37.3 | camaya.substack.com or through a one-time |
| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:53.8 | We have to get away from our focus on wants versus needs. |
| 0:58.8 | Once create an endless cycle of overproduction and consumption, |
| 1:02.9 | along with waste and pollution. |
| 1:05.1 | But at that deeper level, I think it also creates a society |
| 1:08.3 | that's in a perpetual state of emotional hunger because |
| 1:12.0 | wants are never satisfied. |
| 1:16.7 | What did it take for our guest today to help an eco-surfboard startup become an industry |
| 1:22.2 | authority and leader? |
| 1:24.0 | What do we need to inspire a collective shift to valuing our needs over our desires? |
| 1:29.3 | That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. |
| 1:32.3 | If you're not already signed up to the podcast's weekly newsletter and you'd like for me to personally send you |
| 1:37.3 | inspirations and highlights from the podcast, you can head to greendreamer.com to sign up. |
| 1:46.7 | And now to our episode, let's dive in. |
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