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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: yep on July 29, 2013, 05:41:56 PM
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Since the Marc Johnson interview it seems everyone is talking about skater owned companies. Which companies involved in skateboarding are skater owned and which ones aren't.
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Selfish Brand - Jereme Rogers
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Look it up. You have an internet connection.
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http://www.topspinmedia.com/ (http://www.topspinmedia.com/)
The CEO skates.
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http://lockdownskateboards.com (http://lockdownskateboards.com)
LIFE EXTENSION
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not many
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Zero, girl,chocolate,baker,toy machine...
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Many claim to be skater owned.
Is Alien again skater owned? What about Zero? Half Jamie, half Chris, am I right?
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Selfish Brand - Jereme Rogers
This is the only one that matters.
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Selfish Brand - Jereme Rogers
This is the only one that matters.
J is hyped you said that
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It's sort of hard to quantify "skater owned" as with most business you're a fool to invest anything more than a small amount of your own capital. Most of the time you back your capital against a line of credit from either a bank/lender or an outside investor. In skateboarding the outside investor would normally be another established brand or distributor who again are usually divided between "owners" and investors. Your kidding yourself if you think skater owned means "owned entirely by skateboarders".
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It's sort of hard to quantify "skater owned" as with most business you're a fool to invest anything more than a small amount of your own capital. Most of the time you back your capital against a line of credit from either a bank/lender or an outside investor. In skateboarding the outside investor would normally be another established brand or distributor who again are usually divided between "owners" and investors. Your kidding yourself if you think skater owned means "owned entirely by skateboarders".
that s true in some cases- but aside from camps like dlx bakerboys and the like, there are a lot of smaller well known brands that are 100% skater owned.
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It's sort of hard to quantify "skater owned" as with most business you're a fool to invest anything more than a small amount of your own capital. Most of the time you back your capital against a line of credit from either a bank/lender or an outside investor. In skateboarding the outside investor would normally be another established brand or distributor who again are usually divided between "owners" and investors. Your kidding yourself if you think skater owned means "owned entirely by skateboarders".
Yeah you're absolutely right and I should've mentioned that the brands I was referring to are those that have more of a stronghold in skate media and your average skateboarders consciousness. The smaller the brand the more likely they are personally and financially invested in the company and have fewer or no one else to answer to. Brands like Scumco&Sons are most likely paying for everything from their own pocket or with a line of credit. Guys like Pontus at Polar and the magenta guys seem to have done it too with some small initial production runs and a little start up cash. It just gets harder to maintain the integrity of that structure as demand grows as larger production runs create greater divisions of time between shipping products and collecting money. That's when you need a line of credit just to stay afloat.
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Jonny Schillereff at Element broke his shoulder skating a pool in his late 30's which not many people will skate long enough to be in a position to do. Real as it gets. Resenting success is part of this idea of credibility, however, so-
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It's hard too tell who is these days. I'm guessing crailtap and a lot of the smaller brands.
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Most, if not all smaller independent companies are skater owned. Pretty much every big company has some kind of corporate backing now a days. Nothing wrong with that, its good business, but:
Roger, Heavy, Sausage, The Killing Floor, Music, Scumco, Cockfight are all owned by skaters.
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none
skater run yes, skater owned. no.
nothing is cool.
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blitz 5boro lurkville
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Most of the broke companies are skater owned and operated
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Almost, H-Street, Consolidated, Lib Tech, Eastbilt, etc.
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DLX skater owned? I don't think they are backed by a financial company.
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Shaun White Supply Co!!!!
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nike is owned by brad staba.
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http://www.insanejl.com/ (http://www.insanejl.com/)
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Airwalk and I'm pretty sure Nash.
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Emerica. They always talk about made by skaters for skaters.
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Most, if not all smaller independent companies are skater owned. Pretty much every big company has some kind of corporate backing now a days. Nothing wrong with that, its good business, but:
Roger, Heavy, Sausage, The Killing Floor, Music, Scumco, Cockfight are all owned by skaters.
lol you mentioned your own brand
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Most, if not all smaller independent companies are skater owned. Pretty much every big company has some kind of corporate backing now a days. Nothing wrong with that, its good business, but:
Roger, Heavy, Sausage, The Killing Floor, Music, Scumco, Cockfight are all owned by skaters.
lol you mentioned your own brand
I'm a skater, who owns a company. The topic asked about skater owned companies. Figured it applied.
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SENDxHELP
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Paradise Wheels
owned by John Montesi and Nick Matlin
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Emerica. They always talk about made by skaters for skaters.
Yeah, you know, all those gifted asian skaters. God bless them all.
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3D
Skate Mental
Girl
Chocolate
Zero
Threat
Mystery
Slave
Baker
Deathwish
Heroin
L.E.
Birdhouse
Hook-Ups
Selfish
Lockdown
Alien Workshop
Habitat
Almost
Toy Machine
Wray Bros.
Krooked
Anti-Hero
Real
Sk8Mafia
Element
Black Label
DGK
Organika
Expedition
Ammo
5Boro
Blood Wizard
Elephant
Consolidated
Roger
Stereo
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Almost, H-Street, Consolidated, Lib Tech, Eastbilt, etc.
quicksilver owns mervin which owns lib tech so idk bout that
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Many claim to be skater owned.
Is Alien again skater owned? What about Zero? Half Jamie, half Chris, am I right?
Rob Dyrdek bought Alien and Habitat. And Zero is half Jamie half Chris.
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so according to this thread either every company is skater owned or we have a plethora of naive kids that believe anything the skate industry tells them. I'm gonna go with the later.
just because a pro says he owns a company does not equate to that pro being the only owner. If anything, when a pro says that its just to keep you from looking behind the curtain.
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Element
Billabong owns Element, and they're not even surfer owned
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Welcome
Lifeblood
Dieta
Bacon
Family Man
There are a lot of skater owned companies out there
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I really love the small companies with the soul of a true skater running the whole thing. This one from Costa Rica. Just a tight crew of skaters !
http://www.nasionalsb.org/ (http://www.nasionalsb.org/)
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Most, if not all smaller independent companies are skater owned. Pretty much every big company has some kind of corporate backing now a days. Nothing wrong with that, its good business, but:
Roger, Heavy, Sausage, The Killing Floor, Music, Scumco, Cockfight are all owned by skaters.
the dude who runs music (or used to) owns a skateboard but that's about it, i've seen him hold one, and barely set foot on it. he's obese.
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is think not owned by greg carroll?
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What about STEREO? Pastras & Lee
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is think not owned by greg carroll?
Think is owned by Rob , the same guy who owns Lowcard.