Jake Burton Carpenter

Jake Burton Carpenter Net Worth

Jake Burton Carpenter is an American snowboarder and business executive who has a net worth of $100 million. Jake Burton Carpenter has earned his net worth as founder of the American manufacturer of snowboards Burton Snowboards. He was born on April 29, 1954 in New York City; however, he grew up in Cedarhurst, New York. He attended high school at the Brooks School North Andover, Massachusetts, however he graduated from The Marvelwood School in Cornwall, CT. He later attended the University of Colorado located in Boulder, Colorado. He later graduated from New York University with a degree in economics. One of his tasks after college was to improve his snowboarding skills so he worked from a barn in Londonderry, Vermont, where he practiced the Snurfer, which is a basic toy snowboard which featured a rope to allow the rider some basic SMD control over the board. Some of Burton's many accomplishments include; the 2007 online advertising campaign by the Wall Street Journal that featured celebrity readers