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The Vergecast

GoPro CEO Nick Woodman on how to compete without competition

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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GoPro CEO Nick Woodman joins The Verge's Nilay Patel and Sean O'Kane to discuss GoPro's recent launches, occupying a space with few competitors, and why it pulled out of the drone market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of The Verge House is brought to you by Dell.

0:02.1

Before we start, here's a word from Dell.

0:04.2

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0:21.2

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0:26.5

Hey everybody, it's Dan from The Verge House.

0:31.6

On this week's interview episode,

0:33.5

Sean Okan and I interviewed Nick Woodman,

0:35.5

who's the CEO of GoPro.

0:37.4

Now, you're probably extremely familiar with GoPro

0:39.5

that make all the action cameras.

0:40.9

They basically are the market for action cameras.

0:43.4

They don't have a lot of great competition.

0:45.4

So Nick and Sean and I talked about the fact that GoPro

0:48.6

had to learn how to understand what their customers wanted.

0:52.0

Because when people don't buy a GoPro,

0:54.0

they just don't buy anything else.

0:55.8

There's no competition for GoPro to learn from.

0:58.6

That was super interesting.

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