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The Sad Passing of a Snowboard Industry Icon

For someone who could be credited for growing an industry from a little-known, backwoods idea, into a winter Olympic discipline, the guy was pretty low-key. I had the opportunity to meet Jake Burton Carpenter in 2009 and 2010, when I was deeply involved in the snow-sports industry. Like many my age, I started snowboarding as…

Constant Evolution, In Ethics and Business.

We sat up under our own power. We were crawling. We began to walk. We tentatively began to move in an almost graceful, forward momentum, when we suddenly found ourselves staring down an obstacle course made mostly by our own hands. Now what? Can someone please pass me a road map? Being a small, ethical…