Hey everybody and welcome back to another Pink Bike podcast.

I'm Mike Levy, and this one is being recorded in sunny Tucson, Arizona, where I just

happened to run into Mr. Josh Kistner, who is the

director of product at Santa Cruz bicycles.

Today we're going to talk about VPP suspension, bike design, and product development,

product cycles, bike pricing, and supply chain.

I think we might also get to the syndicate and downhill bikes.

But first, Josh, you've been to Santa Cruz for a little while now.

How long have you been there?

And I know your job title, but what do you do?

Yeah, I've been there about 20 years now.

So when I started, I think, God, it was like 25 people there or something.

You've seen some change.

Yeah.

Now it's 350 or something ridiculous like that.

Anyway.

So, yeah, I'm sort of the head of the product management team.

So we got like a couple e-bike product managers, a test rider, shop tech, and a couple of

people.

Yeah.

Would you say you sort of like guide how these products look and how they perform and

stuff?

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