The final interview with snowboard king Jake Burton Carpenter http://on.forbes.com/60171PPCH pic.twitter.com/geJtNDnWIH
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Burton Snowboards, owned equally by Jake and his wife Donna Carpenter at the time of his death, is valued at approximately $700 millionpic.twitter.com/Qi0M6a5YM3
By the time Jake met Donna on New Year’s 1982 not long after midnight, Burton had “maybe one million bucks in sales.” They married in 1983
Donna Carpenter became CEO in 2016, earlier than she expected because of her husband’s illness—under her leadership, Burton became a certified B Corporation in October, committing to balance its profit with purposepic.twitter.com/pZIDKOnxZH
The Forbes interview with Carpenter was one of his last interviews. 1 month after the Forbes visit, he announced to his staff that the cancer was backpic.twitter.com/qKKBsbdHBt
His luck ran out for the last time 11 days later on Wednesday, November 20. Carpenter passed away at age 65
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