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Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

The Rise and Fall of Boosted Boards

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

Marques Brownlee

News, Hobbies, Technology, Tech News, Leisure

4.86.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Boosted Boards was one of the fastest growing companies of the mid 2010's, but in March 2020, they shut their doors for good. Why? What happened? In this week's episode, we dive deep into the rise and fall of possibly the most famous electric skateboard brand of all time. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening, or by using this link: http://bit.ly/WaveformMKBHD If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, or Tweet this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/WaveformMKBHD Links: https://twitter.com/wvfrm https://twitter.com/mkbhd https://twitter.com/andymanganelli http://twitter.com/durvidimel https://twitter.com/AdamLukas17 https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ shop.mkbhd.comMusic by KamrenB: https://spoti.fi/2WRJOFh Other music by 20SYL: https://spoti.fi/3di7n2F Kara Swisher podcast ep: https://spoti.fi/3x1VmXc Sanjay Dastoor: https://twitter.com/sanjaydastoor Casey Neistat: http://twitter.com/casey Sean O'Kane: http://twitter.com/sokane1 Boosted USA: BoostedUSA.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.1

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0:26.9

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0:56.9

Can you me? Nah. I'm fine just the way I am. Doing the things I love. Like enjoying

1:03.6

a latte on the bus with some music or on a walk with a friend. My only resolution is

1:10.8

to enjoy more of what I love. Like switching up my usual with oat, soy, almond or coconut.

1:17.9

All delicious non-dairy alternatives available at Starbucks for no extra charge. While stocks

1:23.8

last, subjects with availability. Welcome to the waveform podcast. We're your hosts.

1:39.7

I'm Mark Hiz. And I'm Andrew. At least we're normally your hosts. What do you mean by that?

1:44.8

Am I fired? No. Oh, I know. I know. Okay. So we're actually doing a story time for

1:52.2

this one. And we're going to be doing it a bit more often because there's a lot of stories

1:55.2

that they deserve to be told. Think about this. Do you actually know what happened to

1:59.3

boost support? That's the question for you. The listener. Do you actually know? Yeah,

2:03.6

this is one of those stories that I think a lot of people know the loose details of,

2:07.1

including me. I mean, I watched a lot of videos with boost boards in them. But if I try

2:10.9

to remember and explain what actually happened, you know, I know they had a massive rise to

2:14.8

success. They were everywhere for a while. And then they just kind of disappeared. Just

2:18.9

kind of died. Of course, there's got to be way more to it. So MKBHD team researcher David

2:24.5

and waveform producer Adam went down that rabbit hole, talked to some people and found out

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