Episode 40 - Gordon Eckler

Episode 40 with Gordon Eckler, skateboarder and co-founder of the "Skate Trivia" games.  Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a board between the island of Guam and Maryland, getting sponsored and moving to California as a young adult, transitioning into graphic design and marketing, coming up with an idea for a « Skate Trivia » game born out of a game played between skaters during road trips while driving to skate spots, making it first as a card game, along with his friend and business partner Jack Spanbauer evolving it into two browser-based games which are about to be released, the inspiration they drew from similar initiatives like Skateboardle…    Intro (00:13)  Getting started (01:13)  Riding for Creature flow (04:37)  Ever turned pro? (14:59)  Starting Plaid Again (18:40)  Coming up with the idea for Skate Trivia (19:46)  Mostly US skateboarding or worldwide? (29:24)  Traveling to France, gathering questions for skate spot trivia game (31:04)  Inspiration from other « similar » projects around skate trivia (35:20)  Similarities with Skateboardle (38:25)  Two games on one website (41:07)  Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (43:40)  Friends questions (44:45)  Conclusion (01:11:40)   For more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboards Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.