Episode 78: Jered and Ashley Gruber — Cycling‘s Power Couple of Photography

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Buckle up folks, because this is a good'n! Ashley and Jered Gruber are a husband and wife team of cycling photographers with a fascinating story to tell. Especially if you ask them! We sat down in Italy for this hour long conversation covering their genesis through the sport, the business model of photography, and the philosophy of how their work fits into the bigger picture among other things. This being 2021, you can find them on instagram: @JeredGuber - https://www.instagram.com/jeredgruber@AshleyGruber - https://www.instagram.com/ashleygruber

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0:00.0	in this moment like still barely making it obviously like just we weren't making any money
0:07.0	whatsoever i would say i mean like it was no scrap scrapping like then to see like your picture
0:12.5	flashed up on a theater screen at this thing and at once being like wow that's so cool and then like
0:17.4	feeling despondent and just like what are we do i remember we went to a macdonalds after that didn't we we like sat in this macdon Right. Just like, what are we doing? I remember we went to a McDonald's after that, didn't we?
0:21.5	I remember we like sat in this McDonald's and it was like, what are we doing?
0:26.0	Like we were like pissed, excited.
0:29.3	It was like, what do we even do?
0:33.3	And at that point, we were so new to photography that we really didn't have any idea about what we should be charging, what was like a responsible method of recourse.
0:46.2	It was just like, what do we do?
0:48.4	So we did what everyone does.
0:49.8	Emotional, Jared.
0:51.1	Went to Twitter.
0:54.6	Hello, and welcome back to King of the Ride podcast.
0:58.1	I am Ted King. I'm your host, this and every week, or month, or every other month, or however often it is that I launch a podcast.
1:08.9	Regardless, I'm very excited about this one.
1:11.3	With summer drawing to a close, Laura and I are freshly back from an Ingamba trip to
1:16.7	Sicily, Italy.
1:19.0	Gamba, of course, is a cycling tour company that I am sure you've heard me mention, and it's
1:24.2	one that I've been lucky enough to have seen firsthand go from the back of a napkin idea
1:29.2	to a standout absolute leader of the pack in the world of cycling tours.
1:34.3	Now, this has taken place over the past decade with my friend, former teammate, and a gamba owner,
1:39.3	Juo Correa.
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