TPM Episode 434: Klaus Obermeyer, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Legend
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Klaus Obermeyer has had a bigger impact on skiing than any man alive, and when he wasn’t innovating the sport, he was in Aspen or traveling the world to ski. He was often found surrounded by a harem of beautiful women. Klaus’s incredible story started 105 years ago in Hitler’s Germany where he was shot by Nazis trying to escape on his skis. From there, he came to America with nothing and eventually became one of the biggest business moguls in skiing. In part 1 of the pod-cast, we talk about making his skis, life in Nazi Germany, moving to the US with $10, Sun Valley, Warren Miller, and much more. This is mandatory listening with a wise man who’s lived more than almost anyone.
Klaus Obermeyer Show Notes:
4:00: Being surrounded by beautiful women, skiing, and yodeling
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18:00: Nazi Germany, getting shot by Nazis on skis, moving to the US,
32:00: Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
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34:30: Warren Miller, and going to Aspen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.3 | It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm your host Mike Powell, |
| 0:18.1 | and after three surgeries, a procedure, a blood transfusion, more pain |
| 0:22.6 | meds than you can imagine, and a whole lot of tears, we are finally home from the hospital. |
| 0:27.9 | While I really don't like being there, I will say there is comfort of knowing that your |
| 0:32.1 | care is right there and if something comes up which seemed to happen every day, we had helped |
| 0:37.4 | fast. Now if something comes up, we seemed to happen every day, we had helped fast. |
| 0:38.4 | Now, if something comes up, we need to go to the hospital, and the car ride alone is torture for |
| 0:43.7 | Ange. Cancer is brutal, and I could go on and on about all the miserable things that happened to my |
| 0:49.1 | wife over the past three years. I mean, her life is challenging. It'll never be the same. And on my end, while I have |
| 0:55.7 | my health, I don't really feel like I have my life. Because life has become working two jobs, |
| 1:00.9 | and thank you to the guys at die cut stickers for being so understanding during this time. If you |
| 1:05.6 | have a sticker request or you want tents or any types of infrastructure for your events, I've got a |
| 1:10.1 | crazy PDF with so many |
| 1:11.6 | products that we make and you can email me at Mike.powel at diecut stickers.com. I will get you great |
| 1:17.2 | pricing and some amazing product from some incredible people. So either way, I'm working two full-time |
| 1:23.0 | jobs and then being a caretaker for Ange, which is a job in itself. While I am complaining because my life sucks right now, |
| 1:30.0 | Ange's life is so much worse and I feel so bad for her. |
| 1:33.3 | But while I feel bad, one thing we both are feeling is the love. |
| 1:37.2 | While I don't expect anyone to donate, |
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