Jake Burton Carpenter Net Worth, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki!
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Jake Burton Carpenter is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on April 29, 1954 in New York City, New York State, United States. American businessman who founded the $100 million-dollar company Burton Snowboards.
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His company featured athlete Shaun White as a spokesperson.
In February 17, 1967 Jake’s brother, Corporal George Carpenter died serving in Vietnam. Then just 4 years later, in 1971 Jake’s mother Katherine died of Leukemia leaving Jake, his father and two sisters.
After college, Carpenter spent a short time working for a small investment banking firm in Manhattan before he grew tired of the 12 hours work days he felt the call to return to the slopes . Working from a barn in Londonderry, Vermont, he improved on the Snurfer, a basic toy snowboard which featured a rope to allow the rider some basic control over the board. In his interview with NPR’s “How I Built This” when he first went out to sell his snowboards, he said “I remember once going out with 38 snowboards, visiting dealers in New York State, and came back with 40 because one guy gave me two back he had bought.” By the late-1970s, he joined a small cadre of manufacturers who had begun selling snowboards with design features such as a bentwood laminate core and a rigid binding which held the board firmly to the wearer’s boot. In 1979, Jake Burton won the Open Division and a $300 prize at the National Snurfing Contest in Muskegon, Michigan. Burton is credited with developing the economic ecosystem around snowboarding as a lifestyle, sport, and culture, in addition to premier board manufacturer. Burton has been one of the world’s largest snowboard and snowboarding-equipment manufacturers since the late 1980s.
He married his girlfriend Donna, with whom he had a son, Tim.
| Name | Jake Burton Carpenter |
| First Name | Jake |
| Last Name | Carpenter |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Birthday | April 29 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Place of Birth | New York City |
| Home Town | New York State |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Taurus |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
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By 1985, Jake and his wife Donna would move to Austria to create a European base and Donna focused on the distribution arm. Then a little over 4 years later they had their first child, George Burton Carpenter in Rutland, Vermont. Then their second son, Taylor Gaston Burton Carpenter was born in Burlington, and their third son, Timi Eaton Burton Carpenter was born in 1996.
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