Our guest today is Bruce Smith, CEO and Founder of Hydrow. Hydrow is a connected home rowing machine that offers live and pre-recorded fitness content on demand, where the instructors are outside rowing on the water.
We discuss:
- The origin story of founding a rowing-connected fitness company
- Prototyping & finding the right manufacturer
- Why it was important to have the instructors on the water rowing
- The ratio between treadmills, bikes and rowers at gyms
- How he met Kevin Hart & became Creative Director
- The current headwinds in connected fitness & much more
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