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The Casey Adams Show

Andy Hoang - CEO & Founder of Aviron on Pioneering Fitness Entertainment

The Casey Adams Show

Listener.com Podcast Network

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8637 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Casey Adams interviews Andy Hoang, the CEO and founder of Aviron, a connected fitness platform that revolutionizes the rowing experience through gamification and innovative design. Andy shares his journey from bootstrapping the business to raising significant capital, the challenges faced in product development, and the unique features of the Averon rowing machine. The discussion also delves into the importance of community, the effectiveness of rowing as a workout, and Andy's personal health philosophy. He emphasizes the role of luck in entrepreneurship and offers valuable advice for aspiring founders.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Casey Adams show. Today we are joined by Andy Hoang, the CEO and founder of Averon.

0:08.8

Andy, thank you so much coming to the show today. I'm so excited to be here. Thanks for having me.

0:13.0

Of course, man. It's, you know, it's one of those things, man. We'll dive into it. But when I first,

0:17.3

and we were just chatting before, but when I first came across your product,

0:21.1

the Averon Rower machine, I was really intrigued because in a world of health and fitness and

0:28.7

you know, so many products out there and it's someone that takes their health seriously,

0:32.3

you know, I've gotten into running marathons the last couple of years, I got on the cold

0:36.0

plunge wave and there's always a

0:37.9

great novelty factor of something new or like reinventing something that has existed for a while.

0:43.2

And you guys have done that in my opinion. But for those that may not know what Averon is,

0:48.2

I'd love for you to just give a quick high level overview about what I am referring to before

0:51.8

we really dive in here.

0:55.8

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

0:58.9

So Averon is in the connected fitness space.

1:04.7

The connected fitness is synonymous with instructor-led classes, but we do things a little bit differently.

1:06.0

We're trying to use game psychology, game design, to make workouts more enjoyable. So the way I describe us is we're

1:12.9

a fitness entertainment platform that uses game design and psychology to motivate instead of the

1:18.5

traditional instructor-led experience. And our first modality that we've come out with is a

1:23.6

connected rowing machine. So it's a, it's like kind of a state of the art, very different

1:28.2

looking than traditional rowing machines. The rowing machines have been around for a long time.

1:31.9

They really haven't evolved that much. And then on it is like a big 22 inch touchscreen.

1:37.6

Wow. It looks incredible. For those that are you're listening or watching, everything will be

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