Strava Founders On Building A Fitness-Based Community | How I Built This with Guy Raz | NPR
Strava co-founders Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey tell Guy Raz how the social platform for athletes passed 76 million users, why they stabilized the business and moved features behind the paywall in the middle of 2020, and how challenges like a million-person 5k keep the community growing. TL;DR Strava committed to a subscription model, added about 70 features in 2020, and moved the paywall during the pandemic, betting that free members who love the product will choose to pay. Live Q&A recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, so work-from-home and pandemic context runs throughout. Based on first ~40,300 caption characters, covering most of the 42-minute session. Details come from machine-generated captions and the guest's own claims; business figures are not independently checked. Topics are untimed; metadata follows YouTube. Source: https://youtubetotranscript.com/transcript?v=RvqWDah1JNc
