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This Week in Startups

Is Peloton undervalued? + Rad Power Bikes CEO Mike Radenbaugh + Succession recap, All-in | E1344

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

First, Jason breaks down the math of why Peloton might be undervalued (3:23). Then, the founder and CEO Rad Power Bikes Mike Radenbaugh joins to discuss building a massive ebike company (15:36), the most innovative features, ebike regulation and cites. Then, *spoiler alert* Jason gives his top takeaways from the Succession season three finale recap (01:05:58) and Producer Nick pitches a storyline to work Jason into season four. At the end of the show Jason and Nick discuss the strategy and behind the scenes of producing All-in (01:32:20).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, big show today, everybody, and we have five full this week and startups coming to you this

0:04.8

week. I'm going to start off with Peloton. Are they undervalued? They have lost 75% or so

0:10.2

of their market cap, but their numbers are looking really good. I think Peloton might be a buy

0:16.8

and I'm going to go into the numbers and tell you how I assess that. Looking at their subscribers

0:21.3

and the value of their company and the lifetime value of their customers, we went a little bit

0:24.3

back at the envelope math. So you understand how investors think about these businesses,

0:28.3

then we have an amazing interview with the founder and CEO of Rad, our bikes. I love eBikes. I bought

0:34.5

two. This company is like really doing crazy stuff and we talked about the founding story.

0:39.8

And why eBikes are this new magical experience that everybody should try. And by the way,

0:44.0

I paid for those bikes and then I invited them on the show. Just so you know, I never accept

0:47.6

anything free, which is not going to be free. It's always somebody wants to have lunch or

0:52.0

wants a favor or an introduction. So I never accept anything free nor does anybody on the staff.

0:56.4

There's no way to get on this program. You send a PR note here and try to get something on

1:00.0

the program and automatically put your person in the penalty box for like a year or two. We

1:03.5

wouldn't even consider them. So don't send PR requests for this week and startups are all in please.

1:08.0

I mean, unless it's like Bill Gates or like a top 100 person, we understand then like, yes,

1:14.1

you can call us if they have a new book coming out. We're going to have a founder snowflake on

1:18.2

the show on Wednesday. And I'm reading his book right now. It's fantastic. And so yes, for that

1:22.8

level of person, maybe at the end of the pod, I put this at the end. Spoiler alert. I'm going to

1:26.8

talk about the ending of secession producer Nick is going to pitch me on me being in season four.

1:30.9

He's got a story arc idea. We'll see how that is. We'll put it up the flag policy of anybody's

1:35.3

salutes. And I'm going to recap the season and what I think of this extraordinary piece of art

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