Tony Hawk: The Man With The $1.4 Billion Name! Burnout, Obsession & Regrets

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

If you think about skateboarding, there is one name that will pop up in your mind: Tony Hawk. It’s the same name that fronts a billion dollar video game franchise. He has been called the Michael Jordan of skateboarding, and at the height of his career he was so dominant in competition that the real fight was for second place. But before skateboarding became the Olympic sport it is today and Tony the living legend that he is, he was an outsider in a sport for outsiders. Driven by his love of skateboarding and to prove his haters wrong, he created an entirely new path for the sport and brought it into the public light and popularity it has today. In this conversation Tony discusses his life’s dedication to skateboarding, the highs and lows that this commitment brings and how the sport has given back to him by teaching him lessons that he has used in both life and business. Tony Hawk: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3TRcn1V Website: http://bit.ly/3TQQYWM Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm either going to make this or get taken away on a stretch.
0:05.8	It changed my life completely.
0:07.8	Tony, hold up.
0:10.8	Were you prepared for that?
0:11.8	How could you prepare for anything like that?
0:14.0	Tony Hawk began riding a skateboard when he was nine years old
0:18.0	and when he turned 16 he was the best skateboarder in the whole wide world.
0:22.0	Are you kidding me? Being the outcast and the outcast activity,
0:25.0	I got picked on, I got bullied.
0:27.0	Even when I turned pro, I would leave high school for a big skate event.
0:31.0	I'm signing autographs and then I would come back and be a
0:33.4	ghost in the hallways again I just wanted to see skateboarding get more popular but I
0:37.4	got famous by accident suddenly I was chosen ambassador I was making an income I
0:42.3	owned a house in my last year of high school
0:44.4	so I was doing talk shows and I was doing big appearances. My video game was a big hit.
0:49.3	How much revenue? A billion dollars? Wow. The trajectory just seemed like it was never
0:54.6	going to end and then it dropped very quickly. I was so hyper-fixated on my
1:00.0	skating. I didn't really work on my humanity. I was a machine and I'd go and do the event and win the trophy.
1:06.3	You go home. It didn't allow me to be myself very much.
1:09.2	Did you lose people?
1:11.2	Yeah. Made them feel like they weren't the priority. And a lot of it was just
1:15.8	being afraid of intimacy and I regret that. I started getting burned down on competition.
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