Jake Burton Carpenter would pen a letter to consumers on the first page of Burton Snowboards’ annual catalog. It always began with a familiar greeting: “Dear Rider…” As the founder and CEO ...

The cause was complications of testicular cancer, his company, Burton Snowboards, which is based ... starting a landscaping business with two rakes, an old station wagon and some garbage bags.

The 37-year-old is the snowboarding company's ... but how can tweak it to make it great,'" he said. This winter, Burton launched the Throwback Snowboard, a plywood model based on the Burton ...

Jake Burton Carpenter, the snowboarding pioneer and founder of Burton Snowboards, passed away from complications related to cancer. He was 65. The company announced Carpenter’s death on Thursday ...

If you love snowboarding and you're a space nerd the 2018 Winter Olympics are for you. Burton Snowboards released the official U.S. snowboard team uniforms for the upcoming Winter Olympics in ...

Carpenter was not the inventor of the snowboard ... was then called a “Snurfer,” the 23-year-old entrepreneur, then known only as Jake Burton, quit his job in Manhattan, moved back to Vermont ...