In this TightOps chat we talked with Andy Fossett, co-founder and CEO of GMB Fitness, providing video courses for people who want to increase mobility and strength working out at home.
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
01:18 What has changed with GMB Fitness due to COVID-19?
03:00 What is your company structure?
04:47 Did you have to change the way you shoot videos at the moment?
06:05 Tell us a bit about your co-founder Ryan, who lives in Osaka.
06:42 How do you coordinate the production of your courses and marketing content?
10:53 How much has the current situation influenced your product and offering?
13:20 Has your audience changed much in recent months?
14:25 Tell us about your team of instructors and the kinds of things they do.
16:44 Do you offer in-person, live trainings as well?
17:50 How to you organize your team’s work?
22:52 What type and what tools are you using for internal documentation?
28:40 How Andy is educating his team with “embarrassingly terrible keynotes”.
35:35 What are doing for company culture? How do you make sure your team is OK, or happy?
39:20 Audience question, “Can you talk about how GMB thinks about their suite of products? Recurring revenue vs one-off purchases, etc.?”
48:12 What have you found to be limitations of running a distributed company? (Getting into company meetups and retreats)
Guests:
Andy Fossett, Co-Founder and CEO
GMB Fitness
Hosts:
Nico Appel
Founder of TightOps Consulting and Training
Chris Kirkland
Co-Founder & CEO of Tokyo Cheapo
