GoPro Merges for National Security, Forgetting Largest YouTuber Shareholder
KEY POINTS
- •GoPro CEO Nick Woodman affirmed camera-making is still the company’s core despite a $285 million merger with Starman.
- •The merger aims to develop content creation technologies and focus on national security aspects involving cameras, optics, and AI.
- •YouTuber Markiplier, previously GoPro’s largest shareholder, was notably absent from Woodman’s public letter about the acquisition.
On the very futuristic-sounding date of September 2026, GoPro CEO Nick Woodman sent a heartwarming letter reminding everyone that camera-making remains 'core DNA', even as his company agreed to a $285 million merger with a mysterious-sounding outfit called Starman. This cosmic deal promises to boost everything from optics to AI infrastructure and even touches 'national security' around cameras — because apparently your next GoPro might report to the CIA. Oh, and YouTube giant Markiplier, who was GoPro’s biggest individual shareholder pre-merger and who surely gulped down a big slice of stock pie, gets vanished from the letter entirely. It’s a thrilling tale of corporate love, intrigue, and probably lots of NDA coffee meetings.
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(1 of 3)GoPro’s $285M merger secretly aims at surveillance, turns national security priority while ghosting YouTuber Markiplier, aka biggest shareholder. Yeah, sure, ’core DNA’ camera vibes.
The only thing shorter than GoPro’s letter mentioning Markiplier is my trust in corporate loyalty after a $285 million stealth merger.
When your CEO talks 'core DNA' but frontlines AI cameras for government spies and forgets the YouTuber who owns your biggest chip.
Source: Theverge | Published: 9/4/2026 | Author: Stevie Bonifield
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