Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
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GPS device. That was the only device that would work with Strabat in th those early days, so You had to have one of those devices that would track your work out and you would Plug it into your computer. And the data would flow
Up. into Garmin and from Garmin into Strava. Yeah. And you know, one of the points of friction was Yeah.
How many people have Garmin devices and so I mean there was a whole period of time where Michael and I were negotiating with the likes of Costco and others, just literally trying to buy Garmin's so that we could either sell them or give them away to friends so that we could get people onto the platform. Basically we tried to make Participation Strava as hard as possible. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements.
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