John Foley

Everything John Foley said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported

Foley feared vilification over Peloton's massive profitability during the pandemic

“And the third earnings call, We were profitable and growing tremendously, but it was this new world order, to your point, Guy, and it was all of a sudden, oh gosh, we don't want to be vilified for being profitable.”

John Foley Jul 18, 2020 ▶ 10:12 How I Built Resilience: Live with John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Insight

Foley: HBS showed no one is significantly smarter than anyone else

“It did in many ways changed my trajectory, because it gave me the confidence to know that no one is that much smarter than the next person, and everyone's trying to figure it out, and so it was a transformative opportunity for me to go.”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 7:23 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Partly supported

Foley: IAC acquired Evite for $3M and cut staff from 120 to six

“And I think we bought it for three million dollars, because it was 2001, and everything had crashed. And so, it had, at one point, a 120 people. I got it down to six people.”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 9:49 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Opinion

Foley: Competing Against Amazon in Core Categories Is a Nightmare

“Trying to compete with Amazon 15 years late. I mean, you don't wish on your worst enemy competing against Amazon in their core category, right?”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 12:13 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported

Foley: Peloton raised a $400k seed round at a $1.6M pre-money valuation

“The seed round was relatively easy. It was 400,000 dollars At a 1.6 million pre money valuation, so two million post.”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 19:43 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated

Peloton reached term sheet stage with Flywheel before deal fell apart

“And we got a couple weeks into a term sheet with Flywheel and then they backed away. They'd just gone through a financing round, and it didn't make sense with their new investor.”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 22:39 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated

Foley cleaned Peloton's bathrooms and vacuumed daily for three years

“I cleaned the bathrooms and I vacuumed every day for three years in this little place we had, and I kept it clean because We couldn't afford a cleaning office, and I didn't want anyone else distracted with the cleaning”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 28:37 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated

Foley: Peloton's first prototype was manufactured 40% too large

“There was a little scale problem where the first prototype was about 40% too big.”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 29:45 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Foley: Mars Waco plant produced six million Snickers daily

“We made six million Snicker bars a day.”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 3:57 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

HOW I BUILT THIS Disclosure

Foley: I Bought Houses for My Parents and In-Laws

“I spend money as fast as we get it, and I bought my parents a house. They didn't have any money bought my parents a house, and we just recently bought my in-laws a house and so I am, you know we don't have much money in the bank account still, because I'm, eve…”

John Foley Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 50:31 Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley

The other half of the tape: John Foley's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 12 times in 7 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Guy Raz 10Selina Tobaccowala 2

Statements about John Foley, by other people (2)

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported

Peloton founder John Foley lost nearly his entire billion-dollar fortune

“At one point, he was worth almost a billion dollars. And he lost all, almost all of it, actually. And I recently read an article where he, in the Wall Street Journal, where he basically said, look, I'm, you know, I lost virtually all my money, but he has start…”

Guy Raz Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 36:09 Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball

HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported

Tobaccowala: Peloton CEO John Foley ran Evite after Ticketmaster acquisition

“The guy who was in charge of it actually for most of that time was a gentleman named John Foley, who's now the CEO of Peloton.”

Selina Tobaccowala Nov 11, 2019 ▶ 46:52 Evite: Selina Tobaccowala

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens John's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER	Co-founder & CEO, Ernesta	2	32	60% 3/5	full record on How I Built This →
MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER	Co-founder & CEO, Ernesta	1	2	0% 0/1	full record on Masters of Scale →