4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Mark Gainey is the Co-Founder of Strava, the #1 app for runners and cyclists. Learn how they built a product for THEMSELVES (super niche at first). We talk about Mark’s “Equation of Success” and how to combat the “Noise of Opportunity” (when to say no).
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| 0:00.0 | I think when it came to the early days of Strabo, like we saw what it was to get big fast, |
| 0:04.0 | we saw what it was to take a company public. |
| 0:06.0 | A lot of our desire with Strabo wasn't so much to replicate that as it was, we really admired |
| 0:11.0 | these consumer brands out there that he and I used to always |
| 0:13.7 | sit down and say if we could have started any other company in a world what would |
| 0:16.2 | have been with all credibility to the oracles and apples and even Facebooks of the |
| 0:20.7 | world those were not the companies we were naming, right? |
| 0:22.6 | We were naming Oakley sunglasses and Patagonia and Virgin Records |
| 0:28.0 | and all these great sort of iconic consumer brands. |
| 0:31.0 | And like, oh, that'd be so cool. |
| 0:33.0 | Can we do that? |
| 0:34.1 | And so then we just had these humble beginnings. |
| 0:36.0 | What is up, you sexy bastards? |
| 0:39.8 | It's your boy Rhino Squirrel, aka Rav I Can't Lose, |
| 0:42.1 | aka Noah Kagan. |
| 0:43.5 | In today's episode I talked to the very special guest Mark Ganey, the founder of Strava.com. |
| 0:48.8 | Strava is one of my favorite apps that I use every single week. |
| 0:51.8 | I use it to map and track all of my bike rides. |
| 0:54.6 | You can check me out at Strava.com slash athletes slash Noah Kagan. |
| 0:58.7 | So if I find myself still thinking back about a conversation I had days or weeks later I know it was amazing and I |
| 1:04.9 | keep thinking about so many things from this conversation with Mark and I cannot |
| 1:08.3 | wait to share it with every single one of you. If you've ever wanted to learn |
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