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Yup, let's recycle CEO's because they worked at a place that people have heard of before. It'll bump the stock price for next quarter. lol. (You're not wrong)
Yeah, let's recycle. But let them pay a re-initialization fee.
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I remember seeing an activist investor powerpoint going after peloton in 2021. The thing that stuck with me the most is the CEO saying he would talk to the CTO maybe once every couple months.
The Blackwells deck? It was highly entertaining, including the magical line "Hiring McKinsey is an admission of failure". https://blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Peloton...
My question is, preferably to a contract lawyer, would Peloton owners have a case to make that Peloton has diminished the value of their property by $95? Is that even a thing? If there was a competitive marketplace, for example, an alternate service for you to hook your bike up to, it would be an argument against this; but as far as I am aware, a Peloton bike can only be used with Peloton's services.
I'm still hoping for a gamified exercise bike where you can weave through traffic and the hardware physically tilts. When is biking sim going to approach racing / flying sim.
[edit] I might be thinking of the variable resistance: that's controlled over wireless.
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nah, they'll start with each email you send. only, they'll call it postage to avoid getting tagged with raising taxes
I would happily pay one cent per email if it meant everyone else had to as well...including advertisers Think of how much better the signal-to-noise ratio of email would become.
Wow, did not see any reason in the article to justify it, except making more money... Quite brazen to scalp like that
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>the idea of paying for a subscription to ride a stationary bike You're not. Like was said above, you can ride it as a stationary bike for free. You're paying for the video content put out by Peloton which is added to daily, like a tv station. I can't help sounding like a sales person at this point but I'd also point out you get access to all their old content plus the fact that all this content is tied directly to y…
There's nothing unique about the "old" video content that makes it attractive other than the fact that their top "trainers" are leaving in droves.
They are losing money still so desparate moves like this I guess make sense, but adding friction to the new subscriber workflow just seems wild. There's a reason why just about every subscription out there offers free trials/discounted first months. It's to get you in the door. It's not even as if the bike is disabled when bought used, you can just use it like any other spin bike happily. This ONLY effects people who…
The market is absolutely flooded with used bikes. Looking in my area I see two dozen on CL alone within a 30 mile radius for $300-$900 (the $900 guy is delusional.) Some people will never buy a used peloton, so this doesn't affect them. Some people will never buy a new one, but the bikes have depreciated so much that a used one is a "steal" at 20%-50% of its original cost, they will grumble about, but pay, the fee. P…
But the people that will buy a used one is probably a decently sized market, and those people will still subscribe to pay the company monthly to access the premium features.
If I did a push-up for every product that has “revolutionized” the fitness world in the last several decades, you would see my body and probably assume that I had used those products. If you have a floor, a wall, and autonomy over what enters into your mouth, then you already have everything you need to gain muscle and lose fat. Nobody needs a $1400 bike with a $40 monthly subscription to maintain a calorie deficit.…
> autonomy over what enters into your mouth This is incredibly underrated. Basically I lost weigth by focusing on this first. then exercising became easier. YMMV, but one thing that helped me control food intake was meditation, for a lot of us, over-eating is a response to anxiety.
My best tip for not eating junk food: Don’t buy it. It’s so much easier to eat chicken and rice when you don’t have a bag of Doritos on standby.
I'm still hoping for a gamified exercise bike where you can weave through traffic and the hardware physically tilts. When is biking sim going to approach racing / flying sim.
I used to be in the industry and I think there's at least one Wahoo bike that does this. And it's controllable remotely. [edit] I might be thinking of the variable resistance: that's controlled over wireless.