Jayam Vora on co-Founding Fitternity, helping 11.5 million app users to get fit, and advise for budding entrepreneurs! | 19
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About the guest:
A fitness enthusiast and a go-getter by nature, entrepreneur Jayam Vora is the Co-Founder and COO of Fitternity, India’s first and largest marketplace and booking platform for fitness services. Starting his career with a technology start-up in the healthcare space.
Jayam has spent the last 7 years understanding and working towards solving challenges faced by the Indian user in their pursuit towards a healthier lifestyle. He aims to use technology and innovation to help leapfrog India’s fragmented & under-explored fitness industry to a mature integrated fitness ecosystem.
About Fitternity: Fitternity is the largest managed marketplace and service provider in Asia for fitness and well-being services. Having catered to over 11.5 Million users, Fitternity is operating a network of 12,000+ fitness centers & gyms in India. Fitternity also runs an innovative subscription business - providing users access to all of their network of 12,000+ fitness centers, swimming pools, spas, nutrition counseling, and other wellness services under one membership called OnePass.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayam-vora-00169565/
Fitternity: https://www.fitternity.com/
Key Insights in this Episode:
- The Beginning of Fitternity? [04:00 ]
- Making Decisions as a Founder [24:00 ]
- Business Models and Raising $8.5 million [28:00 ]
- Advice for Entrepreneurs and Lessons Learned [40:00 ]
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Timestamps:
[00:00 ] Entrepreneurial journey
[02:00 ] Start of Fitternity
[07:30 ] Biggest challenge in starting Fitternity
[13:20 ] Fitternity and its competitors
[16:15 ] Working with your Co-founder
[17:20 ] Growing Fitternity and monitoring growth
[20:00 ] Learning while working for a startup
[24:00 ] How do you make decisions?
[28:00 ] Investors and business models (raising $8.5 million)
[32:00 ] What’s next in the fitness industry?
[40:00 ] Advice for Entrepreneurs
[46:00 ] Top 3
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