Payal Kadakia (ClassPass) - Bringing Your Whole Self to Your Venture

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Payal Kadakia is the founder of ClassPass, the health and wellness app that connects users to fitness classes and other health-positive experiences in 30 countries worldwide. Kadakia is also the founder and artistic director of The Sa Dance Company. Kadakia’s first book, LifePass: Drop Your Limits, Rise to Your Potential, is forthcoming in February 2022. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, she discusses reconciling her dual identities as a business leader and a dancer and her belief that we are our most successful when we bring our whole selves to work.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build. This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:10.7	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner. I am Ravi Balani, a lecture in the management,
0:17.0	science and engineering department at Stanford University, and the director of Alchemist, an accelerator for enterprise startups.
0:23.0	And I'd like to welcome you today to the Entrepreneur Thought Leader series,
0:26.0	presented by STVP, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program,
0:29.7	which is the Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering at Stanford,
0:32.9	and BASIS, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:42.3	Today, I am delighted to welcome Pyle Kedakia to ETL. Pyle is a first-generation Indian American growing up in New Jersey.
0:47.3	She went on from New Jersey to go get a bachelor's degree in management science from MIT.
0:53.3	Don't hold that against her.
0:55.1	And then she went on to be a consultant at Bain, worked in strategy at Warner, and also was the founder
1:00.9	of her own dance company, the SAW dance company, prior to co-founding Class Pass as its CEO
1:06.2	and then chairman.
1:07.7	Class Pass is the world's largest healthcare club aggregator and the leading app for all
1:12.5	things, fitness, wellness, and beauty. Class Pass was one of the first startups to hit
1:17.3	unicorn status, a billion dollar valuation in this decade, and then was acquired in October of last
1:24.1	year. Pyle is also the author of a new book launching, I believe, next week,
1:28.8	called Life Pass, Drop Your Limits, Rise to Your Potential. And really, this book is a calling card,
1:36.7	no pun intended. It's an invitation to your calling. So with that, please join me in giving a
1:41.2	virtual welcome to Pyle Kadakia. Welcome, Pyle. Hi, how are you? How's
1:45.3	everyone doing? Thank you for having me. It is great to have you. And so Pyle, I really think that
1:51.0	your story is going to resonate deeply with certainly a lot of the Stamford community that's here in
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