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Jeff Pyjack

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
68 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

A couple of the famous American Ninja Warriors from the show, Jesse Labreck and Mike Salenzi, have been with me since the start and are still with me today.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Jesse's the greatest of all time on American Ninja Warrior.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Yeah.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

And so she's part of the franchising.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

She onboards the franchisees, teaches them the curriculum.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Ninja is a complex sport, very similar to gymnastics.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

So it does take a little bit of a learning curve to learn it.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Yes, so we offer classes, camps, and birthday parties to some degree.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

We also have adult fitness.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

It's a monthly membership.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Kids come once a week, and we also have travel teams as well.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Really, at the end of the day, it's labor.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

And that labor is very variable depending on the volumes.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

So you can control your labor costs.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

We do not have cost of goods sold.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

So we have two offerings with our model.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

One is our bigger gyms.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

These are mostly warehouse-sized gyms, 10,000 to 15,000 square feet.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Those are about a million to a million and a half in top-line revenue.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

The smaller gyms, the academies, which are built more for the younger kids, three to seven years old, those just launched in November of 2024.