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Rad Season Action Sports Podcast
Oli Russell-Cowan
Bob McKnight — The Quiksilver Story and How Boardshorts Started the Modern Surfing Industry
52 minutes Posted Jul 4, 2022 at 9:00 am.
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Bob McKnight is the Co-Founder, Former Chairman and CEO of Quiksilver and one of the pioneers of the modern surfing industry. Bob McKnight majored in business at USC and had gone on some major surf trips. One of them being to Bali where he met pro surfer Jeff Hakman and his future wife. That trip would change Bob’s life forever. Jeff had met Alan Green in Bells Beach, Australia after he won the contest there. Alan had set up a company called Quiksilver making the first ever ...