Concept2

includes Concept2 BikeErg, Concept2 Model A, Concept2 Performance Monitor, Concept2 Rowers

12 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 27, 2024 by Dick Dreissigacker · said 17 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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May 27, 2024
Assertion Supported
Harvard Ordered Concept2 Oars Only After Losing to Yale
“After Yale beat Harvard, We got an order from Harvard for the oars.”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 25:20 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Concept2 Priced Early Products Based on Future Manufacturing Costs at Scale
“We tried to price it at what we thought we could eventually make it for. So we were projecting ahead that we could, you know, eventually get to the point where it was more profitable. And, you know, we use that philosophy all the time with other products now, …”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 27:18 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Concept2 Launched Its First Rower at $400, Undercutting $3,000 Competitors
“400 dollars. Well, these rowing machines that the colleges would use, that they couldn't really afford to have a whole bunch of them in their gym, but they maybe have one or two, they were over 3000 at that point. Maybe 3500.”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 35:02 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Concept2 Chose Direct Sales Over Giving Retailers 40 Percent Margins
“I mean, I think when we first started out, you know, stores or retailers were demanding very large margins, you know, they had to have a We didn't want to raise our price so that we could give them a 40% margin.”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 41:19 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024
Assertion Supported
Around 40 Third-Party Fitness Apps Integrate With Concept2 Monitors
“We have, like, 40 other third-party apps that connect with that monitor.”
Peter Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 50:02 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 positive
Insight
Concept2 Built Its Most Successful Products to Serve the Founders' Needs
“Most of the products that we've worked on and been successful with are products that That we want to use ourselves, you know, and the theory is that if we, you know, like the idea of having some way to train specifically for rowing without having to get to the…”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 28:36 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Concept2 Continues to Assemble All Its Rowing Machines in Vermont
“We assemble here, yeah.”
Peter Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 47:14 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Concept2 Runs Its Global Hardware Operation With Just 130 Employees
“A 130, which includes about 40 overseas at subsidiaries.”
Peter Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 48:23 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Concept2 Generates More Than $100 Million in Annual Revenue
“We'd be a little bigger than that.”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 54:28 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024
Disclosure
Concept2 Co-Founders Chose Their Rural Location Before Their Business Plan
“We had a clearer vision of the place that we wanted to move to live, to do this business than we had of what the business was going to be.”
Peter Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 19:59 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Concept2 Is Exploring Patagonia-Style Purpose Trusts for Company Succession
“We're studying that right now, actually. And, you know, we've looked at things like what Patagonia has done, and, you know, they become kind of this poster child a little bit for this idea of the purpose, trust.”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 56:27 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
May 27, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Concept2 Sold Out Its First 50 Indoor Rowers at a Regatta
“Well, at that point, we had, we were doing our first batch, I think it was like, 50, and I think we sold most of those, if not all of them, at that Masters, yeah, Championships regatta.”
Dick Dreissigacker May 27, 2024 ▶ 33:45 Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker
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