John Foley

8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 10, 2022 by Ben Gilbert · said 42 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Feb 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Peloton's digital trials spiked 10x to 1.2M users at COVID-19's onset
“Six months ago, we had about a 100,000 digital subscribers for the business. And within 45 days of COVID hitting they gave this deal that said, you're not getting a month free, you get three months free because people need to work out at home. And within 45 da…”
Ben Gilbert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 50:52 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Opinion
John Foley correctly identified that treadmills are a 3x larger market
“Interestingly, fully, and I think he's right on this, I think this isn't one of his sort of, like, grandiose statements that ends up not being true, thinks that the tread market is, like, three X what the bike market is, because running is a much more, like, t…”
Ben Gilbert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 1:19:37 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
John Foley retained $500M in Peloton equity despite the massive stock plunge
“His current remaining stock, even at the closing price on Monday was five hundred million dollars.”
Ben Gilbert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 1:58:30 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
John Foley grew Evite's revenue from $1M to $25M post-dot-com bubble
“And I think, I'm not sure if this was IAC or his next gig, but he ended up taking over the post bubble Evite team. That had shrunk from like hundreds and hundreds of people down to this like very small group and grew it to like, I think you grew it from like a…”
Ben Gilbert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 37:25 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
Feb 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
John Foley sold $96M of Peloton stock near its 2021 peak
“John Foley sold ninety six million dollars of Peloton stock in 2021 when the price was really high and he was talking about what a strong future the company still had in front of it.”
Ben Gilbert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 1:57:47 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
Feb 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
John Foley and his co-founders control over 57% of Peloton's voting power
“According to Peloton's proxy statement, he controls 39.6, so right around 40% of the voting power of Peloton's stock, and his co-founders own another 18%.”
Ben Gilbert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 1:39:47 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
Feb 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
John Foley raised Peloton's initial $400K seed at a $2M valuation
“He ends up raising 400,000 dollars to start from friends and family at a two million dollar post money valuation.”
David Rosenthal Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 38:40 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
Feb 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Peloton founder John Foley previously led Barnes & Noble's Nook business
“He had been prior to starting Peloton. He had been the head of Barnes and Noble's nook business, their e-reader business which is based in New York.”
David Rosenthal Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 33:09 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
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