Tony Hawk

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"I had no vision of saving for the future. I was taking all my friends on vacation, buying the newest car, going on shopping sprees at Sharper Image."

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"DocuSign is one of them."

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"We have our own video production company, 900 Films, who have done stuff with Liquid Death."

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"I've definitely gotten lucky in that I get to know some of the main Silicon Valley players that I've met through the years and they've invited me to invest in some stuff. Nest, Blue Bottle, Liquid Death, Events.com — I think that's about to go public — and DocuSign."

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"About a year later, I got a call from Activision and they said, 'We heard you're working on a game.' And I was like, 'I'm not, but I want to.'"

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"When I finally got sponsored by the Bones Brigade, I was an amateur. I won the amateur series that year. And I owe a lot to Stacy Peralta because he recognized something in me that maybe I didn't even see."

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"I was making about $1,500 a month from my shoe sponsor, Airwalk. They would call me every month and say, 'We really got to cut you down a little bit.' So that went to a thousand, then 500, eventually ended up at $300 within the same year."

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"The last game that had been released up to that moment was Skate or Die for Commodore 64. So we're years past that, coming into home consoles more now."

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"Events.com, I think, is about to go public."

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"I like to credit Back to the Future. When Back to the Future came out in '85, kids wanted skateboards. Marty McFly invented the skateboard and a lot of kids — that was their first glimpse of what's possible."

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"Restaurants have been the riskiest, but also I can't stay away. One specifically, Counter Burger — I invested in two of them and that didn't work."