Kevin Allen

10 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2025 by Kevin Allen · across every show →

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Mar 3, 2025 negative
Opinion
Allen: Peloton and Fitness Apps Fail to Support the Customer Journey
“One of the things we see in the fitness market is that a lot of people are putting content out, which Peloton is doing in an outstanding way, but they're not supporting their customers in a journey.”
Kevin Allen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:44 #18 ROWViGOR
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Allen: Competitor Hydrow raised $1M pre-product while Rowvigor struggled
“And meanwhile, companies like Hydro Row get a million dollars without having product one for an idea on rowing-based fitness.”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 12:51 #94 The Breaking Point
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Allen: A VC told me I was "too young and too Black"
“I remember my first company, I actually had a venture MD pull me aside and tell me I was too young and too black to get funded. Like they weren't gonna listen.”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 27:30 #94 The Breaking Point
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Opinion
Allen: VCs issue performative diversity pledges while ignoring Black founders
“What they're doing is they're putting out messaging that, that is asking that a community at large, when they have us, Already here. But I see all these letters from the, you know, the managing directors of this firm or that firm saying, you know, we are commi…”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 26:47 #94 The Breaking Point
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Allen: Rowvigor CTO ghosted a crucial San Francisco investor pitch flight
“I had bought him a plane ticket and, you know, and we had talked about how important this was and he just missed his plane and didn't say anything or attempt to get on another one.”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 11:09 #94 The Breaking Point
Mar 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kevin Allen: Rowvigor pop-up gym grew to 1,000 members in 8 months
“Classes were packed. We had about eight trainers, and there was just a lot of buzz and excitement around it. I mean, we had a thousand members in about, I don't know, seven or eight months, and we said, you know what, it's time to scale.”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:47 #94 The Breaking Point
Mar 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kevin Allen: Rowvigor secured a $100,000 fund commitment toward $500,000 raise
“So after all of this we finally got a fund to commit a 100,000 dollars toward our half million dollar raise.”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 18:58 #94 The Breaking Point
Mar 4, 2025
Insight
Allen: The advice to never build for investors is bullshit
“You know, I've had investors tell me you never want to build a company for investors. That's bullshit. Investors are going to invest in what they like. And if they're the only ones that can provide you access to capital, then you have no choice. Otherwise your…”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 13:35 #94 The Breaking Point
Mar 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Allen: Rowvigor User Base Doubled in Roughly 35 Days During COVID
“We saw our Roe Vigor application user base grow by a hundred percent in about 35, 36 days.”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 19:35 #94 The Breaking Point
Mar 4, 2025
Disclosure
Kevin Allen: Rowvigor raised $30,000 from friends and family for pop-up
“So we scraped together, I don't know, it was 30 grand from friends, families, and everyone else who would work with us to open this pop-up gym.”
Kevin Allen Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:06 #94 The Breaking Point
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