Now I'm here and the office manager is here, but it's 9,000 square feet so we can stay away from each other. So when the pandemic hit we just shut down the office. NP: A little over half our company is remote anyway. There are few businesses that did better in the pandemic than those.īRAIN: How has your company been operating during the pandemic, is everyone working remotely? That or a grocery store or if you made masks I guess. At-home fitness is the perfect product for a pandemic. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.īRAIN: We've been publishing a lot of stories about the industry's supply chain woes, but it occurred to me that TrainerRoad is completely isolated from those issues. Instead of following a static calendar of workouts, athletes get updated suggestions for the day's best workout.īRAIN spoke with CEO and co-founder Nate Pearson as the company was just beginning to roll out Adaptive Training in beta tests. AT uses machine learning to tailor specific workouts for athletes, based on their recent performance, indoors or out.
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This spring TrainerRoad is rolling out a major update with a new feature called Adaptive Training. It connects to hardware in a way similar to the better-known Zwift application, but doesn't simulate outdoor riding or racing and has little social aspect beyond a video group workout feature that is something like a sweaty Zoom call. Now TrainerRoad links smart trainers, power meters and other gear with specific workouts and training plans. It calculated power from "dumb" trainers, allowing riders who lacked power meters to train with power estimates indoors. TrainerRoad launched when smart trainers and power meters were rare and expensive. We can say with confidence there are many well-known brands on the hardware side of the bike industry with many fewer employees and correspondingly lower revenues. The privately held firm doesn't release revenue figures, but will say that it's grown to 82 employees with another 15 job openings and plans for a South African office. It has grown steadily since its launch in 2011. Think Zwift, Peloton, Wahoo, and Strava, not to mention the many new e-bike brands that continue to bring in multi-million dollar investments.Īlthough it's stayed out of the headlines, TrainerRoad is a perfect example.
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Companies that offer high-tech hardware or software have generated press coverage, excitement, investment, and participant growth faster than traditional suppliers. (BRAIN) - Even before the pandemic, the intersection of cycling and technology has been where all the action is.
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