Mark is currently Chairman and co-founder of Strava. He co-founded the company in 2009 with Michael Horvath. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco and supports customers in over 180 countries.
In this episode, we discuss Strava’s origin story and how it got its name, we talk about the early days of the company and learn about their interesting growth strategy and how they got their first customers. Also, we speak about the founder mindset and what it takes to build an enduring company, the inch-wide-mile-deep strategy, effective daily routines, and much more!
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#018: Mark Gainey – Strava: Scaling to 100M users, mindset, exercise and growth