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GoPro Founder Teases Audience at CES, Investors Want to Score

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Mark Melin
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GoPro Chief Executive Officer and founder Nick Woodman, dressed in a t-shirt, jeans and beach flip flops, was in a teasing mood on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In a panel discussion, he teased the audience – and by extension investors – about positioning the company in drone manufacturing.

 

But then just as audience interest peaked, he pulled back, a classic tease move.

GoPro Founder Teases Audience at CES, Investors Want to Score

GoPro CEO keeping the company plans private

“It’s so much better to tease you guys,” Woodman told the audience, refusing to detail company plans.  Besides, why tell investors your...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.