Kite boarding and entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs are often risk taking, adventurous individuals. Not surprisingly many of them try things like kite boarding, ice climbing, car racing, flying planes and heli-skiing.
According to Sean Tierney, a young entrepreneur and founder of Jumpbox, it’s not just that entrepreneurs are attracted to those sports, but entrepreneurs have a lot to learn from a sport like kite boarding. You can read his fun analysis at: http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2007/02/08/kite-surfing-startups-and-the-power-band/
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It’s an honor to be mentioned on your blog Fabrice- you have hands-down the best interview to date on Venture Voice. I look forward to meeting someday on the slopes or the water or the air 😉
sean
This is interesting. Brain surgeons also tend to have those extreme sport interests. Dr. Spetzler, considered one of the best neurosurgeons in the world is a very avid Heli-skiing practitioner. My friend, Roger Hartl, a top neurosurgeon at NY Presb. also does heli-skiing and glacier climbing.
It should really be further investigated by an expert team of sociologists and psychologists, how come surgeons and succesful entepreneurs are more found of heliskiing, tropical sea diving or Patagonia ice-fall climbing, than, say, nurses and office workers ??
No matter how amazing it may seem, there HAS to be some rational explaination to this strange phenomenon.
Any hint someone ?