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Michael Horvath

13 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 11, 2021 by Michael Horvath · across every show →

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Feb 11, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Strava made its Flyby feature opt-in to protect user location data
“And that's why, for example, making flybys something that you have to opt into was really important to us so that someone who joined, who may not even understand what that feature means, wouldn't inadvertently be sharing information that they didn't want to.”
Michael Horvath Feb 11, 2021 ▶ 13:47 How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava
May 2, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Strava moved free features to a paywall to ensure long-term sustainability
“Would we rebalance the equation between the free and the paid by moving some things from the free side to the paid side? Yes. We would do that in the name of building Strava to be sustainable, building it so that we can be here for the next hundred years.”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 1:09:34 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022
Insight
Founders should separate cleanly once they lack an active operational role
“It's almost like you're, you do have a, you have a better quality, and the company has a better quality of existence if you really separate as much as possible at some level when you don't have a role to play anymore.”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 34:27 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kana Communications built its first prototype using FileMaker Pro templates
“We took an off-the-shelf software called FileMaker Pro, found a, someone who knew how to create custom templates for it, and asked them to basically build what Mark just described, that, that placemat sketch from the sixteen-year-old turned into a FileMaker Pr…”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 28:57 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022
Assertion Supported
Gainey handed the Strava CEO role to Horvath in 2010
“And so by early 2010, it was, hey, Michael, I really need you to run this.”
Mark Gainey May 2, 2022 ▶ 1:02:46 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022 positive
Insight
Founders do not need upfront answers to start building products
“You don't have to figure out all the answers to how you're going to build something. You have to start with something that gets you to the next challenge to solve.”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 24:08 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022
Disclosure
Strava founders negotiated with Costco to source Garmins for early users
“There was a whole period of time where Michael and I were negotiating with the likes of Costco and others, just literally trying to buy Garmins so that we could Either sell them or give them away to friends so that we could get people onto the platform.”
Mark Gainey May 2, 2022 ▶ 52:49 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Strava was modeled on Patagonia and Virgin rather than tech peers
“We made a list of if we had been founders of XYZ company, what would it have been? And it was telling because It wasn't a bunch of Silicon Valley companies. I don't think there was, I mean, maybe, maybe we put Apple on there. I can't remember, but otherwise it…”
Mark Gainey May 2, 2022 ▶ 42:23 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Strava reached one million daily active users in 2015
“So I believe we hit a million daily actives in 2015.”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 1:07:54 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Strava's earliest business plans explicitly rejected advertising models
“I do remember the earliest business plans had the concept of sponsorship, but We said no advertising.”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 55:55 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Strava did not have a viable mobile app until 2012
“It wasn't until the, 2012, until we really had a viable mobile app into the market. We launched something in 2011 that, that didn't work, but it took us a while to shift off of that.”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 53:59 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022
Assertion Supported
Horvath stepped down as CEO in 2013 after his wife's cancer diagnosis
“So he steps in in December because in September of that year, a few months prior, my wife, Anna, had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 1:04:08 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
May 2, 2022
Assertion Supported
Strava did not expand beyond cycling in earnest until 2012
“And some of the biggest chant, you know, say the discussions we had was when do we start expanding into other sports? And we didn't really do it in earnest until 2012.”
Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 ▶ 51:38 Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
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