TPM Episode 158: Maxx von Marbod: Every Job in Snowboarding
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Maxx von Marbod is a legendary businessman in the world of snowboarding. He single-handedly has held every cool job title that you can imagine in the span of 30 years. From sponsored rider, to tech rep, to team manager, to marketing and sales jobs, Maxx has seen and done it all. On the podcast Maxx outlines how his career went from the runways of commercial aviation to the mountains of snowboarding.
Maxx von Marbod Show Notes
2:00: Trade shows, Growing up in WA/ID, and Surfing
11:00: Seeing snowboarding for the first time, hunting, and wanting to be a pro snowboarder
15:00: Pilot training and going to Western
19:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: The best online experience in action sports with retail to back it up
686 Technical Apparel: The best outerwear in the world
21:45: Being a tech rep, dropping out and going to Sims and dropping legends
30:00: Faction, Option Snowboards, and Transworld Snowboarding Magazine
40:00: Spy Optic: Get 20% off on their site Spyoptic.com using the code TPM20
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
42:00: Money at the mags Frequency, The Snowboard Journal, and Super Big
49:00: Spacecraft, Pow Gloves, and his snowboard collection
55:00: The Nidecker Group, K2, Traeger, and Lib Tech
72:00: Inappropriate Questions with Kevin Walsh
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. It's time to talk some shit. The Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week it's |
| 0:18.7 | trade show week, and I'm off to outdoor retailer where I'll have |
| 0:22.2 | a bunch of meetings line up podcast and see all the new products that will be available next season. |
| 0:27.7 | It's always a fun time, lots of happy hours that I will attend and not really participate in, |
| 0:32.9 | and a lot of business going on. To celebrate that, I have a business episode this week, and I haven't had |
| 0:38.7 | one in a while. My guest is Max von Marbad. He's a dude who's had so many cool jobs in |
| 0:44.5 | snowboarding. It's ridiculous. And now he's finally landed his dream job. Before we get into |
| 0:50.0 | the podcast with Max, and I know I sound like a broken record here, but I want to ask you to do a few things for me. |
| 0:56.3 | First, subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you listen to me on. |
| 1:00.4 | Second, follow me on Instagram at the Powell Movement, and if you like the episode, let me know. |
| 1:05.8 | Finally, I want to ask you to support my sponsors. They're all great brands that I've been into |
| 1:10.2 | way before they started supporting the podcast. They are all great brands that I've been into way before |
| 1:10.8 | they started supporting the podcast. They are Evo, Spy Optics, 686, Stanley, and the 10 Barrel Brewery. Now, |
| 1:19.1 | let's talk to Max von Marbad. So we are getting into trade show season right now. Trade shows |
| 1:26.4 | seem to be different now than when you |
| 1:28.3 | started in the industry. Can you think back to your first trade show, and I'm guessing you were |
| 1:33.0 | with Sims or someone like that, and describe what the show was like back in the 90s? |
| 1:37.7 | Oh, man. Yeah, actually, I have vivid recollections of that show. That was 1994, was my first trade show, and I was a tech rep for a guy |
| 1:48.6 | named Darrell West. He had just left Burton and was the Northwest rep for a company called |
| 1:57.4 | Free Motion, who was the distributor for Nidecker snowboards and a boot company |
| 2:02.5 | called Nboots. I was riding for Burton underneath Darrell West as a rep rider and was chasing |
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