Tony Hawk turned down a $500,000 royalty check in his 20s — here's why

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Tony Hawk turned down a $500,000 royalty check in his 20s — here's why
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Skateboarder Tony Hawk turned down a buyout offer from Activision and his instinct paid off: His licensing deal ran for 16 years until 2015 and the Tony Hawk series generated an estimated $1.4 billion in sales worldwide.

. " "And so they offered me a flat buy-out of $500,000 for future royalties … I had never heard anyone speak the words 'Half a million dollars' to me."

"I think my saving grace of that was I had just bought a new house and it was almost paid for and I felt pretty comfortable with all my other income and other endorsements happening, that I thought, I could take a gamble on this piece."

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