Co-founders of Breakaway: From Tour De France, to Y-Combinator, and building the future of Cycling. Jordan Kobert, and Christian Vande Velde

In this Podcast, we connected with Jordan Kobert, co-founder and CEO, and Christian Vande Velde - world-renowned Olympic athlete, and co-founder of The Breakaway, the motivational coaching app for digital fitness.

They have a fascinating story, starting from the Tour de France, to Y-Combinator, and raising funds from some of the best VCs in the world.

Some quotes and highlights:

00:00 — Introduction

00:24 — ‘Y-Combinator: It’s the equivalent of a training camp with the best sports scientists, the best team doctors, the best analysis teams, the best coaches’

03:52 — The story of Breakaway ‘The Breakaway started with me getting a Peloton’

12:44 — The initial product ‘We sync cycling data from platforms that you have, we rate you and rank you across benchmarks based on your age, gender, and weight. It's about you versus you, you versus people like you. And then we give you insight and analysis and motivation to improve.

15:08 — How the sensors got in the market ‘Pretty much everyone had power meters by the end of 2013’

16:13 — Learning to use sensors through intuition, at the beginning of wearables

26:43 — Types of data that Breakaway analyses

38:43 — Sleep optimisation

50:59 — Building a brand and building a team