Jake Burton Carpenter
21 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 23, 2017 by Jake Burton Carpenter · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Oct 23, 2017
Oct 23, 2017
Carpenter returned from a 38-board sales trip with 40 snowboards
“I remember once going out with 38 snowboards, and I drove around New York State and visited dealers, and I went out with 38, and I came home with 40.
Guy Raz: 40 snowboards?
Jake Burton Carpenter: Because one guy had given me two back that he'd bought and said…”
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Nov 21, 2019
Nov 21, 2019
Nov 21, 2019 negative
Burton: Time Magazine dismissed snowboarding as the 'worst new sport' in 1980s
“I think time was quoted as calling it the worst new sport. And part of that time thing, the worst new sport was they said it was more about raging hormones. And this was these rebellious young men that were making it happen.”
Nov 21, 2019 positive
Carpenter: Burton snowboard design was finalized on Mount Washington in June 1978
“I'm hiking up there, and Hillman's Highway was the trail, and I had the board, or I was testing the final test, and it was horizontally laminated rock maple, very much like a skateboard, but thinner and more flexible.
And I rode down, you know, just hiking up …”
Nov 21, 2019 bearish
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Nov 21, 2019 negative
Carpenter: FIS added Olympic snowboarding without consulting the sport's pioneers
“Well, FIS, which is a International Ski Federation, it's a Swiss, you know, whatever, governmental body, and they controlled the scene, and then they started having snowboard competitions when they just had, aside from their ski races, and we were wondering wh…”
Nov 21, 2019 negative
Nov 21, 2019 neutral
Nov 21, 2019
Carpenter brought wife Donna to Burton leadership to promote female executives
“There were no women in our top management, and that just felt wrong to me, so I got in there, and I, and Donna came along with me, and at that level, we were running the company, and I brought her, and sort of specifically to,
Help with the culture and get mor…”
Nov 21, 2019 negative
Jake Burton: Overproducing year-one inventory forced immediate layoffs
“So I had to let go of my two relatives and my friend very quickly, and it became back to me in year two, because we made enough boards in that first winter, I don't know whether we made, a thousand or 15, we made enough for three years.”
Nov 21, 2019 negative
Nov 21, 2019 positive
Nov 21, 2019
Burton: Early resort snowboard bans were driven by liability and lawsuit paranoia
“Well, it was there was actually a famous case at Stratton, which was a resort, one of the first resorts to let us on, where this guy had- It's in southern Vermont, and this guy had broken his leg because of some sign or something, skiing, and he sued the mount…”