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Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
HIBT Lab! ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
- ▶ 0:24 Guy Raz Pyle co-founded the fitness brand ClassPass. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:51 Guy Raz And I think around that time, ClassPass had to lay off, you know, almost half of its, of its employees. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:23 Guy Raz So, Paul, you made it through twenty-twenty, and by the end of twenty-twenty-one, ClassPass was acquired by a company named MindBody. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:15 Payal Kadakia He said, how does it feel that you'll never build anything as big as ClassFest in your life again?
- ▶ 22:38 Payal Kadakia So I'll also give you the background a little bit on how I came up with it, because for me, and this was right when ClassPass took off, so we're talking about, you know, end of
- ▶ 26:30 Payal Kadakia And for those of you who remember, like for me even, to start ClassPass, it took me to travel to San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:47 Payal Kadakia To be at a point where all the different parts of me, even the parts I may have been hiding in one area or another, were all the parts that built ClassPass, right? 2 times in the scene
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation
- ▶ 0:36 Guy Raz So you're going to hear from Pyle Kadakia of ClassPass, Tristan Walker of Walker & Company, and Perry Chen of Kickstarter.
- ▶ 3:32 Guy Raz Paul, I wanna, I wanna ask you about the inspiration, one of the inspirations behind ClassPass. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 Guy Raz You had other ideas before you landed on ClassPass. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:33 Guy Raz So as part of the innovation panel at our virtual How I Built This Summit back in May, I spoke with Tristan Walker of Walker & Company, Perry Chen of Kickstarter, and Pal Kadakia of ClassPass. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:14 Payal Kadakia You know what's interesting from a ClassPass perspective? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:42 Guy Raz That's Pao Kadakia, founder of ClassPass.
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown (2018)
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
- ▶ 0:31 Payal Kadakia One of the best ways we would get, uh, customers to sign up is we did this Lululemon promotion where people would get a hundred dollar gift card to Lululemon if they signed up for ClassPass and stayed with us for six months.
- ▶ 1:18 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, when Pyle Kadakia couldn't book a dance class online, she built her own solution called ClassPass, a booking service for fitness classes now valued at over a billion dollars. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:57 Payal Kadakia Anyone who's, like, known me, I mean, a lot of people obviously know me today as the founder of ClassPass, but before that, I mean, everyone's just like, Payal is a dancer, and that's who she was.
- ▶ 17:28 Payal Kadakia This is also the crux of so much of where ClassPass came from. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:04 Guy Raz Was anybody, by the way, did anybody say like, you know, Dabble just doesn't, it doesn't take, it doesn't, doesn't speak to me. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:33 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Pyle took the business in a new direction, and then several more, before she finally landed on the winning formula for ClassPass.
- ▶ 32:03 Guy Raz Pyle and her team have just launched a brand new booking service, Classtivity, and nobody is signing up for it.
- ▶ 35:31 Payal Kadakia So we started building another product called the passport and this, uh, this was a 30 day product where people could go and try these, you know, one-off free classes that these studios were offering all in one place. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:41 Payal Kadakia No, this, this was, I mean, we had a total of about, uh, 2000 customers on the passport before we pivoted to ClassPass, so we're, you know, we're getting there, like, in the sense of, you know, the chart was starting to go up, but we had a… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:14 Payal Kadakia I actually remember in the summer of 2013, once ClassPass worked, um, we almost were, we were getting to a point where I had about three to three months of cash left. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:09 Payal Kadakia But by, you know, three months later when, you know, we had crossed a thousand customers on ClassPass, and I mean, you know, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:22 Guy Raz You know, you, you launched this company, this business. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:19 Guy Raz So you stepped down as CEO, um, but obviously still very much involved in running the company, and you really kind of, your growth 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:12 Guy Raz I think in January of this year, you closed your Series E round. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:41 Payal Kadakia I think once you've been through the bathroom floor model, uh, three or four times, you just start feeling more resilient to it, and more confident in the fact that you're gonna get through it, that, you know, we've been through so many… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:57 Guy Raz That's Pal Kadakia, co-founder of ClassPass.
Rent The Runway's Jenn Hyman At The HIBT Summit
- ▶ 3:50 Jenn Hyman Able to grow, not only because of the success of Rent the Runway, but also because of the success of Airbnb, and Uber, and WeWork, and ClassPass, and the million of, you know, the many sharing economies that have impacted and transformed…