![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He's featured in 9 of Activision’s Tony Hawk games (THPS). His skate videos litter YouTube with tens of millions of views just his "Best Of" has 24M. Mullen’s been in the public eye since his teenage years. His very first talk on this went to TED since then, he’s spoken at Apple, Nike, IBM, JPL, MIT, Wired BizCon, BrainMind (Stanford), UVA Med School, Condé Nast Editors-in-Chief meeting, and more. After its sale, he turned to Linux, finding parallels between skate and hacker cultures that foster innovation. Mullen is widely credited for today’s board and wheel designs, earning two patents along the way. After studying chemical engineering at UF, he co-founded the era’s largest skate company. If you Google “Godfather of Modern Skateboarding,” Rodney Mullen pops up for creating most of today’s tricks while becoming the most dominant world champion in its history. ![]()
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