At 17, he started his own skateboard company, Hosoi Skateboards.

Badillo has attracted other professionals and team managers from prominent skateboard companies to help judge competitions.

Mountain declined as he only wanted to start a skateboard company if he had 100% ownership.

The Dwindle acquisition made Globe International one of the world's biggest skateboard companies.

Rachtman also owns a skateboard company called Pool School.

Though, he said, he could also see himself managing a skateboard company.

Blueprint Skateboards is a skateboard company set up in 1995.

This period was fueled by skateboard companies that were run by skateboarders.

During the last year, however, a small skateboard company on Canal Street has been quietly trying to add a new item to the mix: skirts.

Her husband Spike Jonze has two skateboard companies that also make clothes.