Flywheel, every mention
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Acquired 7
Lenny's Podcast 3
Top Founders 2
Startup Acquisition Stories 2
every year every show
Acquired 7
Lenny's Podcast 3
Startup Acquisition Stories 2
Top Founders 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Flywheel comes up on Acquired, Lenny's Podcast, Startup Acquisition Stories, Top Founders
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- ▶ 1:19 Lenny Rachitsky Prior to Uber, Sachin was Chief Product Officer at Flywheel, a VP of Product at Lookout.
- ▶ 1:04:00 Sachin Kansal If you look at my resume, I work at a com, I worked at a company called Flywheel, which is a taxi app company.
- ▶ 1:12:53 Sachin Kansal I mentioned Flywheel, which was a taxi company, which is also not able to scale.
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 34:58 David Rosenthal Oh, or, or Flywheel, you mean?
- ▶ 35:00 Ben Gilbert Or Flywheel, yeah, to get access to their instructors, their content.
- ▶ 35:08 Ben Gilbert And they actually got to term sheet with, with, um, Flywheel.
- ▶ 35:11 Ben Gilbert I think SoulCycle sort of gave them the cold shoulder as sort of, you know, they were so hot at the time and so big and so dominant, but, uh, Flywheel, they actually got to terms on what would it look like to make this thing not only, um,
- ▶ 35:26 Ben Gilbert Uh, content partner, but I think also like a go to market partner, like this was going to be the distribution strategy, but flywheel ended up pulling out and walking, walking away from the deal.
- ▶ 2:04:23 Ben Gilbert And I'm gonna use Soul over Flywheel because I think even though Soul wasn't giving them the time of day at the moment, that's the more interesting one.
- ▶ 2:06:37 David Rosenthal Like, there would have been too many incentives and resources within a SoulCycle or a flywheel to, like, you would have to really cannibalize a lot of the core in-person, you know, operations.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Derek Homann Co-founder of Workshop
- ▶ 17:25 Derek Homann Uh, we focus on internal communications in particular, and so, um, you know, myself and my other partner from, uh, Median are, are two of the partners, and then, um, two of the folks that we worked with at a previous company called, uh,…
- ▶ 20:01 Derek Homann Um, you know, my current business partner, Dusty Davidson, is our CEO of Workshop, um, and was previously the CEO of Flywheel, which had a great exit, so I get to work side by side with him every day, um, as well, and so, you know, those…