ClassPass, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where ClassPass comes up
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.