Kadakia: Announcing ClassPass's Series A spurred copycats in every market
Payal Kadakia · How to price your product to scale (with Classpass' Payal Kadakia) | Masters of Scale · Aug 2, 2023 · at 28:43
Payal Kadakia, founder of ClassPass, reflects on the unintended competitive consequences of publicly announcing their Series A funding round.
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“And then we announced our Series A, our total million dollar round, and it was a great moment, and always in hindsight, I'm like, I don't know if I would have done that, because what it did is it spurred competition in every market.”
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