Payal Kadakia
17 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 29, 2020 by Payal Kadakia · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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Jun 29, 2020
Kadakia: ZocDoc Founder Cyrus Massoumi Helped ClassPass Raise a Bridge Round
“And so I thankfully, you know, raised a bridge round from, actually Cyrus from ZocDoc helped me
Raise that round, which got me into, got me through to January, which is when I officially closed my seed round that was going to let us launch in other places.”
Jun 29, 2020 negative
Jun 29, 2020 negative
Jun 29, 2020 neutral
Kadakia: Dabble Rebranded to Classtivity Due to Chicago Trademark Conflict
“We actually had to change our name because there was a company in Chicago that started selling classes under, under the name of Dabble. So we had to actually overnight change our name and we couldn't think of anything, so we, like, literally were just scouring…”
Jun 29, 2020 neutral
Jun 29, 2020 negative
Kadakia: Lower Pricing Tiers Cannibalized Profitable Users and Worsened Unlimited Margins
“When we started doing was introducing lower, lower packages. And then what happened was, you know, our really profitable users were obviously choosing the lower packs, which made the unlimited package even get worse in terms of our margin. Right. And the peopl…”
Jun 29, 2020 neutral
Kadakia: Fitness Booking Struggles Because Working Out Is Aspirational, Not Utility
“And so something with like airline tickets, like you already made the decision to go, or if you're going to go eat, you're going to eat. Eating is, is a utility. Like you're going to eat. Right. And that was the difference where working out and going to these …”
Jun 29, 2020
Jun 29, 2020 neutral
Jun 29, 2020 neutral
Jun 29, 2020 negative
Kadakia: Classtivity Burned $500,000 Over 18 Months With Zero Traction
“I mean, you know, we had once again, like close to, it's been, by the way, about close to a year and a half, right? We had probably spent close to a half a million dollars at this point, and it's crickets, and I didn't know what to do.”
Jun 29, 2020
Jul 22, 2021 positive
Kadakia: Class reservations are the single heartbeat metric for ClassPass
“Over time, and I still always make this the most important number that my team sees, it's the reservation number, because that is the heartbeat of the company. That means our product is working. That means our partners are happy. That means our customers are e…”
Jul 22, 2021
Jul 22, 2021
Kadakia: ClassPass unlocked market growth by targeting non-enthusiasts
“And there were a lot of fitness products in the market, That were actually speaking to the one percent of people who already did fitness, and I realized I wanted to go and talk to the 99% of people who were like me, and who were scared to walk into a spin clas…”
Jul 22, 2021
May 12, 2022 negative
Payal Kadakia rejects work-life balance, favoring structured systems instead
“And look, I never believed in the word balance, and I don't think you can have it, but I knew I needed a system that the same way I was able to accomplish every dream I had professionally, I didn't understand why I didn't have that system. Personally.”