In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

'Wild Grinders' becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my boyhood dreams come true. I came up with the name when I was eleven years old, when I needed a name for my first skate crew - who knew it would turn into such a mega brand?

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.

I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.

No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world.