How I Built Resilience: Live with John Foley

Hey everyone and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs and other business leaders about how they're thinking creatively during such a disruptive time. And today my conversation with John Foley, the founder of Peloton. Peloton makes stationary bikes and treadmills stream live classes right to your home. We feature John Foley and the Story of Peloton on the podcast back in April of 2019, so if you haven't heard it, it's well worth checking out. Anyway, when the pandemic shut down fitness studios all around the world, People still needed a way to work out. And Peloton saw a huge surge in demand. I spoke with John from his home in New York just a couple days ago, where he's focused on meeting that demand.

And keeping the Peloton community motivated. All right, let's talk business. Um, when did you first start to see something odd in in like orders for Peloton. Did you start to see like a weird surge even before the pandemic really hit? I don't think it was before Guy. I I think it was that You know, the the twelfth or thirteenth of March.

Uh when The world realized that what we were hearing about and obviously China and and and Italy and and some other places in South Korea That it was going to come to New York and all of a sudden That following week it started shooting up the demand.

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