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How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How Do You Resist the Pressure to Run Ads?

Strava has raised tens of millions of dollars, and those investors at some point want a return on their investment. So how do you resist the pressure to run ads? Because tat would be an easy way to clear some cash. Do we believe that there's opportunities for diversifying the kinds of services we offer over the next ten or twenty years? We really are stuck on this principle that you need to understand who your customer is. And stay focus there....

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