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Gates and Ballmer initially saw Linux as a bigger threat than Google
“We had done the early work that got Gates and Bomber focused on Google as a threat to the business, and at the time, back then, they were more focused on the enterprise side and on the threat that Linux kind of represented, and so we had gotten the company pre…”
Fritz Lanman Jul 20, 2018 ▶ 14:07 20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
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ClassPass's business model works in any zip code with five fitness studios
“We found that it works in any zip code that has five studios in it.”
Fritz Lanman Jul 20, 2018 ▶ 27:01 20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
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