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But both Twitter and GoPro have something else in common: They're in the midst of a stock price slump that caused both CEOs to recently lose their status as paper billionaires.

By claiming the electronics they ordered had shown up damaged, the couple scored GoPro cameras, Xbox game consoles, Samsung smartwatches, and Microsoft Surface tablets by creating hundreds of fake online identities to conceal their crimes.

«We have 15,000 videos uploaded to YouTube each day that are tagged or titled GoPro,» Lurie said.

Scott Kupor, Andreessen Horowitz COO, shares his thoughts on GoPro's IPO, and tech's biggest hardware and software plays.

In October, GoPro's then - senior VP of media Zander Lurie told Fortune that his company planned to build a strong video streaming business alongside its hardware business.

GoPro has burned through the pros, the enthusiasts, and the super-picky and price - insensitive people and now they're staring into the consumer chasm and facing a world of competitors (including all the phone manufacturers whose offerings keep getting better, cheaper and more waterproof).

The Twitter - owned (TWTR) service said on Tuesday that it has teamed with action camera maker GoPro (GPRO) to let users broadcast video from their cameras.

One of Make's first tenants is GoPro — which makes use of the screening area to show off newly captured footage.

The partnership comes at a time when both Periscope and GoPro are expanding beyond their roots.

Only owners of a GoPro HERO4 Black or HERO4 Silver using Periscope's iOS app can broadcast their video, although the footage can be streamed by any Periscope user.

What's more, when GoPro held an IPO in 2014, it noticed that its camera sales spiked every time a video made with a GoPro camera went viral on the Internet.

GoPro is gasping for air.

Woodman took GoPro public in June, raising $ 427 million on the first day of trading.

He solved the problem and created GoPro, a line of durable cameras that come fitted with mounting gear allowing users to capture images and video of their most active moments.

It's the type of ballsy transformation that's been successfully navigated by Apple and precious few others — but like GoPro's customers, Woodman isn't one to play it safe.

And it's not only daredevils and cat lovers taking notice: Chinese electronics giant Foxconn acquired an 8.88 percent stake in GoPro in late 2012 for $ 200 million, and the firm filed for an IPO this February.

The raw footage originated with Fresno, Calif., firefighter Cory Kalanick, who in mid-2013 rescued an unconscious cat while wearing GoPro's HD Hero3 camera attached to his helmet, then uploaded the video to YouTube, where it attracted 1.5 million views in the weeks to follow (although the kitten perished from smoke inhalation).

Users need to tap the share button in the Spotify or GoPro app and their content will be pulled directly into the Instagram camera.

GoPro's high - definition personal cameras are synonymous with videos highlighting skateboarding, surfing and other extreme sports, but the company's «Fireman Saves Kitten» clip set social media ablaze by documenting an altogether different act of daring.

That fall, GoPro recut the footage, added its logo and rereleased it on its own YouTube channel; this time, the emotionally charged clip reached a far wider audience, racking up 5 million views in a week.

Take a page out of the Facebook and GoPro playbook by allowing clients to showcase themselves for all the world to see.

The company went public last month, Wall Street loved the stock, and now GoPro is a multibillion - dollar company.

It's the property of GoPro, the company that makes the cameras we're using.

The company's new investors have deep connections in the technology and entertainment landscape, and they are helping GoPro advance its relationships with media companies.

To understand GoPro's success as a social brand, you have to start back before the company's founding in 2002.

Best Buy has a specialty - product division that responds to such requests and tests new accounts in anywhere from 10 to 100 stores, so the company offered GoPro a shot that way.

Woodman is looking forward to GoPro's new Wi - Fi plug - in enabling live streaming of events.

«That's a big difference between GoPro and other companies,» he says.

Among filmmakers, GoPro cameras are already a standard piece of most production kits.

Other companies, like GoPro and online dating platform, Plenty of Fish, have also achieved enormous success by bootstrapping before rushing to Sand Hill Road with a pitchdeck.

One, GoPro is a company that's deeply invested in storytelling (primarily in the form of extreme - sports videos), so he suggested we do part of our interview here, with a dramatic backdrop and some adrenaline - pumping action between questions.

GoPro had reached out to the retail giant several times but had never gotten a response.

To date, GoPro has focused its business mostly on democratizing the first step in the content cycle: capture.

Once more of the user videos actually link to GoPro and users have an incentive to send the company traffic, it's not hard to see that number growing quite a bit faster still.

His crews attach GoPro cameras to crab pots underwater or to the sides of ships in rough seas.

Woodman would announce that whoever yelled the loudest would get free cameras, and then he would lead everyone in a chant of the company's name: «GoPro!

A GoPro was mounted on the rescue pod when the Chilean miners were rescued in 2010.

But don't forget that GoPro's IPO pitch included how it was underlying a whole new video network or Fitbit's focus during its IPO of its growing social network of fitness freaks.

GoPro grew slowly over 10 years, and as Woodman noted in an Inc.com interview on his «overnight» success:

To our delight, customers have been doing that to a huge degree, and it's been a big part of our success» — but no amount of tagging by users allows GoPro to get involved in the business of user - generated videos on YouTube.

Perhaps even more impressive than the revenue growth is the passion GoPro's users have for its products, as expressed by the flood of GoPro videos spreading across YouTube and Facebook.

On the creation side, GoPro's media group manager, Bradford Schmidt, persuaded Woodman to acquire a leading digital - video software company, CineForm, in early 2011, right around the time GoPro released a rig that allows users to shoot in 3 - D by calibrating two cameras to shoot simultaneously and create layered 3 - D files.

Now, though, people who had learned about GoPro online were going into the stores and asking for the cameras.

Woodman says GoPro hasn't touched the money; it's there as a war chest.

Flip, GoPro, Fitbit, Pebble, Jawbone, Arlo Technologies... need I go on?

Founder and CEO of GoPro Nicholas Woodman's $ 497.5 million donation to Silicon Valley Community Foundation ranked second.

Suddenly the question of how GoPro tracks and maximizes the revenue impact of the content produced on its cameras becomes less fuzzy.

Lucasfilm used GoPro cameras for the upcoming film Red Tails, about World War II pilots, and countless Discovery Channel productions and news shows use the cameras to film wildlife, rescues, and storms.

GoPro (gpro) has since lost 77 % of its value and Fitbit (fit) 74 %.

On the broadcast side, GoPro is working out the details of a partnership with YouTube to create a GoPro network.