[image] Zwift co-CEO resigns amid fresh round of workforce layoffs After just over a year Co-CEO Kurt Beidler chooses to walk away

Most reports indicate that these are steep cuts…see the example cited above. You don’t slash teams by +60% or lose your co-CEO due to seasonality.

It would be if they was eliminated by electric shock, just enough to fling them off the bike. I would watch the sprints for that alone :slight_smile:

Exactly. Modern venture capitalism (at least for anything tech adjacent) is all about spending huge sums to hypergrow, hype the hell out of it, then cash out with an IPO. They don’t care if i the company crashes and burns as long as they got their ROI. They just need the bigger fool to buy into the …

[image] mcneese.chad: Then keep in mind that your summer is winter for others, so there is likely a trade-off between seasons split by the equator. Also… Canada… I use Zwift at least a few times a month, even in “summer”.

So zwift hub is being retired in favor of kickr core bundle now, for anyone jumping on that bandwagon I wonder what support will be like for bad units

Yup: Wahoo Kickr Core Zwift One

[image] Zwift Lays off 100+, co-CEO Resigns, Zwift Hub Series Discontinued Despite Zwift just announcing the new jointly-launched Wahoo KICKR CORE Zwift One trainer, this hasn’t been a strong week for Zwift as a company. In fact, it’s arguably been the worst week the company has had in i…

And yet they could easily be closer to profitability than Zwift.

Well, the software is free, so I kinda doubt it. Pretty hard to be profitable with no revenue. :upside_down_face:

Nah, the point is the loss could be smaller than Zwifts, even with no revenue.

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mcneese.chad February 7, 2024, 4:19pm 40

Yup:

Wahoo Kickr Core Zwift One

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