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What companies are skater owned?
« on: July 29, 2013, 05:41:56 PM »
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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2013, 05:43:28 PM »
Selfish Brand - Jereme Rogers
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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2013, 05:48:52 PM »
Look it up. You have an internet connection.

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2013, 05:51:15 PM »

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2013, 06:10:49 PM »

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2013, 02:53:56 AM »
not many

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2013, 04:09:38 AM »
Zero, girl,chocolate,baker,toy machine...

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2013, 04:23:24 AM »
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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2013, 05:22:31 AM »
Selfish Brand - Jereme Rogers

This is the only one that matters.

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2013, 05:40:38 AM »
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Selfish Brand - Jereme Rogers
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This is the only one that matters.

J is hyped you said that


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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2013, 05:51:05 AM »
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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2013, 06:21:54 AM »
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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2013, 06:52:55 AM »



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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2013, 07:14:29 AM »
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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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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.

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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2013, 08:42:55 AM »
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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2013, 08:48:35 AM »
It's hard too tell who is these days. I'm guessing crailtap and a lot of the smaller brands.

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2013, 09:31:12 AM »
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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2013, 09:36:35 AM »
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skater run yes, skater owned. no.

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2013, 09:39:24 AM »
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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2013, 09:50:24 AM »
Most of the broke companies are skater owned and operated

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2013, 10:04:39 AM »
Almost, H-Street, Consolidated, Lib Tech, Eastbilt, etc.

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #21 on: July 30, 2013, 10:07:40 AM »
DLX skater owned? I don't think they are backed by a financial company.
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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #22 on: July 30, 2013, 10:13:02 AM »
Shaun White Supply Co!!!!

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2013, 10:53:17 AM »
nike is owned by brad staba.

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #25 on: July 30, 2013, 11:50:49 AM »
Airwalk and I'm pretty sure Nash.

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #26 on: July 30, 2013, 11:55:53 AM »
Emerica. They always talk about made by skaters for skaters.

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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #27 on: July 30, 2013, 12:29:31 PM »
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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #28 on: July 30, 2013, 01:04:08 PM »
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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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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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Re: What companies are skater owned?
« Reply #29 on: July 30, 2013, 01:13:01 PM »
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