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Eric Min

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
190 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

And today what you get is a little taste of Zwift every month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

So you get to ride 20 kilometers or about 18 or 12 miles a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

So everyone can dip in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

We don't have any year long contracts at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

So what we wanted to do, at least in the first couple of years, to understand the behavior, most of our customers are

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

outdoor cyclists.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

So what they're used to doing is riding indoors when the weather is not friendly and going outdoors when the weather improves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

So what we're trying to understand is, can we affect behavior?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

Could we tweak the product so that Zwift is a proposition year-round?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

And these are experiments that we're conducting at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

But we believe that over time, the Zwift is something that will be a year round proposition for not just cyclists, but fitness enthusiasts when we get to that part of the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

Almost every business is seasonal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

People may not realize it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

Gaming industry is seasonal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

Yeah, so let's talk about consumer businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

So like gaming, gaming is a seasonal business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

That shocked me actually, but it makes sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

People spend less time playing games during the summer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

They probably go out, go on vacation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised

And so many businesses are actually more seasonal than we all think.