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Subscription stationary bikes was his golden goose remember. It’s a pretty horrendous notion, but they had brilliant marketing and a pandemic to ride.

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I still can’t believe people fell for that. The bike was like $2500+ and you had to pay for it monthly.

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The real problem was that they achieved vendor lockin and thought that made them safe but couldn’t offer anything even slightly unique that wasn’t available free on other exercise bikes - or rather they could have but just didn’t.

They wanted to offer the absolute lowest quality experience for the highest price and hoped that name recognition and advertisement would carry them.

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…so just like a lot of companies hahaha

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