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- ▶ 2:03 Guy Raz If you've listened to the show, you've heard us tell stories about a bunch of brands that made the transition from niche to mainstream, like Simple Mills Snacks or Strava. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:10 Guy Raz You know, we did Strava on the show years ago, and those guys, they've really cultivated a community of hardcore Strava users, people who, you know, are in a community and a social network. 2 times in the scene
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Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- ▶ 0:06 Michael Horvath That was the only device that would work with Strava in those early days, so you had to have one of those devices that would track your workout, and you would plug it into your computer, and the data would flow up into Garmin, and from… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two friends who missed the competition and camaraderie of the locker room decided to capture that feeling with an app and grew it into Strava, a platform used by a hundred million athletes around the…
- ▶ 2:12 Guy Raz But more importantly, at least in the case of today's story, Strava, people who run or cycle or swim or hike 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:49 Mark Gainey So this was, when people ask, when was Strava started? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:39 Michael Horvath So very much like what Strava is today, but, you know, like you said, 1995, long before what we think of as today as social media companies, the ones that we all know, love, and hate.
- ▶ 45:22 Michael Horvath And so we asked Davey to keep working on stuff and see what he comes up with, and what he comes up with by the summer of 2008, spring of 2008, is what we now know as the Strava Segment Leaderboard. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:58 Mark Gainey We just love to get your feedback and your reactions to this experience of not just going out for a ride, but then sharing that information on this Strava website.
- ▶ 49:10 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Mark and Michael got Strava out of its awkward adolescent phase, and how, because of life circumstances, they each had to learn how to run the company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Guy Raz So it's around 2008 and Michael and Mark are hard at work on Strava, a platform for cyclists to clock and compare their rides. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:48 Guy Raz Interact with, with Strava, and on August, 18th, 2009, when you launched it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:22 Mark Gainey We, we did and have, if you look over Strava's 13 years history, explored various monetization models. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:03 Guy Raz I mean, obviously people make it available, you know, if you've got a friend on Strava, like right now, I know that Mark took a, uh, an eight mile ride this morning at 5:30 AM. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:14 Guy Raz Who was the person, like, when you were describing Strava to people, who was the person you imagined would come to it? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:17 Guy Raz Um, Strava Run. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:37 Michael Horvath And, uh, I think what changed was the minute they understood that, hey, these are their friends who run, and they can celebrate them and build community with them, and in the Strava feed, which is the place where you see other people's… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:58 Michael Horvath And so, you know, the, the roles we've played in the, over the course of, of Strava have changed, but one thing hasn't changed, which is we're doing this together. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:17 Mark Gainey It's people who are engaged in Strava and are telling their friends, and yes, that was happening in
- ▶ 1:09:01 Michael Horvath That period in November, uh, Mark and I teamed up to come back to run the company, him as executive chair and me as CEO. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:10 Guy Raz You know, one of the things that happened unexpectedly, I think, for every big business, but certainly for yours, was that two, 2020 and then 21 just proved to be huge growth years, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:22 Guy Raz When, ah, when Mark, you, you reached out to Michael to kind of get back together and build what would become Strava.
- ▶ 1:18:05 Guy Raz That's Michael Horvath, founder and CEO of Strava, and Mark Ganey, founder and executive chairman. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava
- ▶ 1:23 Guy Raz This week, my conversation with Mark Ganey and Michael Horvath, co-founders of the social media app Strava. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:57 Guy Raz Now, it would take quite a while, I mean, in the early days, and Strava launched in, I think, in the early days. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:51 Guy Raz So for those watching, I think a lot of people probably use Strava and know how it works, but for people who don't know how it works, can you explain how it works? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:08 Guy Raz I know you guys had a feature called Flyby that you, you now allow people to shut it down. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:28 Guy Raz So, cause you, I mean, for better or worse, like there's a lot of information that is, you know, that, that's on the app that is revealed on Strava. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 Mark Gainey It's a, so for us, if we can support those folks, they're telling the story, and Strava doesn't have to do it, but I think it really comes back to that, that concept of inspiration and, and personal anecdote. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:43 Guy Raz Hey, welcome back to How I Built This Resilience Edition, and my guests are Mark Ganey and Michael Horvath, co-founders of the social media app Strava. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Guy Raz I want to ask you about, given that Strava is such an important cultural force in the world of running, particularly running, um, I want to ask you about race, running and race. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:55 Guy Raz That's an excerpt from my live conversation with Mark Ganey and Michael Horvath, co-founders of the social media app Strava.