Episode 164: Eric Min Co-Founded Zwift and Revolutionized Cycling

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

There's a lot more to the Zwift story than "riding a bike in a virtual world". From the very beginning they're revolutionized cycling. Think of it, they're the single biggest entity to why we enjoy the women's Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift the week after the traditional Tour. More to the point, Eric Min co-founded Zwift thanks to a lifelong love affair with cycling. His life story has taken him all over the map from South Korea to New York City to calling various parts of Europe home to setting up Zwift's HQ in southern California. Eric and Ted share connections and stories... like when Eric reminds our host that he was Zwift's first ambassador! Give the new lineup of lights from Exposure a try! I love my experience with the Toro 16 and the Diablo 16. Try them out at exposurelights.com and use code KING10 to save! I don't know if you need legal help, but if and when you do, give Matt Scarborough of Bicycle Accident Law a call. Are greens powders all the rage, but you don't like the taste? Try the newest from AG1 with citrus, tropical, and berry flavors are game changing. Visit drinkAG1.com/tedking for a welcome gift.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back.
0:05.1	Ted King here, your host on King of the Ride podcast.
0:07.9	We have got another great episode coming your way with someone who, plain and simple,
0:12.4	has changed the way millions of people ride bikes.
0:16.3	Eric Min is our guest.
0:18.0	And how did you do that?
0:19.7	Well, Eric co-founded Zwift. So maybe you ride bikes indoors,
0:24.4	maybe you don't, whichever the case, it's a company you are presumably familiar with a company
0:28.5	to which he holds the title of CEO. And it's, it's not just that he changed the way people ride
0:35.3	bikes in this virtual world of Zwift.
0:42.1	We're riding bikes meets online gaming, where riders like Jay Vine can ride from his basement pain cave right into a successful world tour career. It's a much bigger picture. It's
0:48.2	similar to what I learned from Kate Veronaugh, a recent guest on our show here, who shared about Zwift's strategy
0:55.6	for women cycling.
0:57.6	Now, I don't know about you, but for me, there was no Tour de France hangover after three
1:01.8	weeks of racing in July, because it segued straight into another great 10 days of women's
1:07.3	tour to France, femme of X swift, that entity, that very successful entity, it's inspiring women's tour to France, femme of X-Wift, that entity, that very successful entity,
1:13.7	it's inspiring women worldwide to get into the sport and have a target at the highest level of
1:18.2	cycling, Le Tour.
1:21.6	Anyway, Eric and I happen to share some connections from our past, and I thought he'd be an
1:26.4	awesome guest.
1:29.2	Spoiler alert, he delivered.
1:35.2	So his story from beginning in South Korea to New York, to the world of finance, to energy trading, to co-founding Zwift, and so much more.
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