Chip Wilson has a net worth of $1.9 billion. He is a Canadian who was raised in San Diego and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1979 out of Vancouver, he started his first business, Westbeach Sports, a sportswear company that features surf, skate and snowboarding. 
Wilson and his parents were sports enthusiasts and he spent his time between Canada and California. He started bring up surf and skate clothing to Canada in the 1970s, where baggy skate and surf fashion was never seen and 70s fashion was still a tighter fit. He got a job working on the Alaska pipeline when he was 19 and made $100k, which paid for his university education, a home and to start up Westbeach Sports.
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