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Building Resilience and Community with Strava
TLDR Co-founders Mark Ganey and Michael Horvath created Strava as a community-focused platform to connect active individuals, prioritize user privacy, and promote well-being. Despite challenges like the pandemic, Strava experienced significant growth in 2020 by focusing on employee well-being, operational changes, and enhancing user connections through new features.
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Mark Ganey and Michael Horvath, co-founders of the social media app Strava, discuss building resilience into their business and the inspiration behind the community-focused platform.
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Mark Ganey and Michael Horvath met in college, bonded over rowing, and later came together to explore the potential of the Internet, leading to the idea behind their first company and eventually the launch of Strava in 2009.
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Mark Ganey and Michael Horvath were inspired by social changes and their previous entrepreneurial experiences to create Strava, a platform that connects people who share a passion for being active and staying fit.
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Strava focuses on providing value to athletes and maintaining user privacy as key priorities for their business model.
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Strava focuses on educating users about privacy settings and motivating people to stay active through personal stories and community inspiration.
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Strava experienced unexpected and significant growth in 2020, following a public layoff and the challenges of the pandemic, by prioritizing the well-being of their employees and focusing on community.
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Strava experienced a significant increase in users during the pandemic, leading to the need for operational changes and the introduction of new features, including a shift in paywall and allowing employees to work remotely.
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Strava is observing shifts in exercise patterns during the pandemic, with people finding new ways to cope through activity and the app is investing in features to enhance accountability and connection among users.
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Strava aims to be the record of the world's activities by allowing developers, devices, and users to plug into the platform, while also working towards being an inclusive and anti-racist company.
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Prioritize the best things, make tough choices, and do less better to accomplish things you'll be proud of, as emphasized by the co-founders of Strava in a live conversation.
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