How did you get plugged into Strava? So not only were we pulling athletes data from Strava into recover, but actually when an athlete finished a prehab routine, On recover. And I think thats, thats also a good transition potentially as we get towards the end of the conversation and do look ahead, right. Its their goal to help athletes love their sport and stay healthy for life. Well had to be really good, but we focused on those 30 that made it through not the 270 who werent ready to buy right now. Most runners can still go out there and run, but theyve got some acre pain that theyre working on or is getting worse or is getting better. And actually back before we started recover over five years ago, we were roommates in the same,tiny apartment in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and,used to just run together, laugh around fresh pond every morning,and decided To run a marathon together. you know, we, we havent really expanded our content database to the point where it needs to be so really excited about the strides that were gonna be taking on content. In this episode we discuss the companys prehab app for runners and athletes, and utilizing in-person community growth hacks and storytelling to scale its user base. So you gotta be honest. Yeah. When you havent built much its especially easy to do blue-sky thinking and get sidetracked by shiny ideas. Really small, basically like a focus group of people who really cared, who arent just gonna give up on it. Many PTs require a physicians referral and the average injury costs $400-600 to fully rehab, which deters many runners who need help. and so we ended up unlocking a lot of free help early. I would join as like a runner and I would post and sort of like a. Our mission is to help runners spend more time running and less time injured. Like where are these people? [00:28:26] Nick Stewart: Like there wasnt like, obviously there was some deliberation, but its like, this is what we set out to do. Like there are, if there are 30 who are willing to buy today, there are a million who are ready to buy today. So if youre within the subscription and you scroll down, theres a, module right now, that drives to the recovery app,that helps athletes on Strava.discover our app. But 90% of those injuries follow common patterns and can be prevented through proactive recovery exercise. To kind of get ahead of those aches and pains. Then the business was running, you know, like I think that, that it was that simple, but obviously what was behind the pay? Yeah, its awesome. The. It seems like on a monthly basis now, or every other month, there is new trail running, new content partnership, some type of marketing push. Scroll to find 'Integrations'. I think theres a lot of things in there to potentially, you know, take away or emphasize. Totally. might have it, [00:32:59] Nick Kafker: Powered by proprietary injury-prevention algorithms and physical therapy content, Recover Athletics allows runners to seamlessly incorporate the But what they, what they should be doing is following the research, the line of research that this person has sort of contributed to. We launched the club in a couple weeks later, we had a few thousand runners in it. And that, that point is especially as like young entrepreneurs in a community where like running or, or finding that type of community where the, the kind of audience or the customer is very engaged and tapped in. In this episode, we discuss the companys approach to prehab and utilizing in-person community growth hacks and storytelling to scale a userbase. And we thought about both the product development resources we could tap into by becoming part of the team. but also like who are people that we feel like we can learn from. And, and certainly,with the best of intentions. The Recover app is based on best-in-class physical therapy practices that make it simple to prevent, treat, and avoid pain, so you can love every mile. Have people use our app and test flight. Recover Athletic cofounders (from left to right): Nicholas Stewart and Nick Kafker. Sure. Listen on Recover Athletics is the injury prevention app for runners. The idea that we were lean testing with is actually very close in some ways to the experience that users get in the much more polished user friendly interface today, where its still videos that come from the best minds in sports medicine, Boston just kind of happens to be home to some incredible physical therapists and physicians who study running related injuries. [00:16:26] Nick Kafker: What would it look like? For them in real time.but, but yeah, that was just so powerful to get that kind.User feedback, live from folks that like we knew folks we didnt know, but that we could kind of build a relationship with in person. Its like we really do feel super fortunate. They could share that back to Strava, just like a ride or a run or a hike. https://crowd1.com/invitelink/?code=WnArR1lmdWJ4R1dCZHQ1SXpRNXpVdlZHQmRmSktaTXlqMkZJa2V0SmhDeHM2bjlmQ1NCb3ZBZ3Zwelo0OUkzSQ==. WhatsApp acquired by Facebook). That afternoon, which kind of, I think helped be like we were getting people the right answers, even at the early stage when it came to the product, which is why athletes had great outcomes and kept coming back. and think, you know, as you said before, We could, you know, we could bring that revenue onto Strava and what a powerful tool for retention. Or is it like, just trying to, a lot of times go through the motions or maybe do something specific for like the everyday person? Whos still a friend, but that thats, that story is like another whole podcast and its just, yeah, just get out there and sell. And also. So its like the two foremost minds in terms of like healthy running and running injury prevention. Stewart: Getting runners excited about our team and mission so that they organically spread the word aboutRecover. And when wed do doing workouts, she knew from working with me, my injury history, it was easy to give Nicks injury history, everything below the waist hurts. But, at, at any rate like that was, that was our chance to get runners, to use the product live and like have a user feedback session every Wednesday where wed go for an easy jog with people and runners were just looking to get their miles in, do something simple. And I think well take it from conceiving of the Recover Athletics platform, to getting it scaled up, and then where things are today. That very good. And obviously when the pandemic hit, that vision kind of came crashing down. Would you download it and give us some feedback its free. Athletes now have access to a breadth of injury prevention resources included in their Strava subscription. Time and time again, when we get kicked out of these groups sometimes. Resonated with me, resonated with us. Product @ Strava, Co-Founder @ Recover Athletics (acq '22) Senior Product Manager at Strava. Find Stephen's email address, mobile number, work history, and more. Myself being initially a football player, but transitioning into running and multi sport, everything from cycling and triathlon to like marathon ultramarathon trail racing and having a background in personal training, exercise science,it always struck me as like, man, all of my runner friends are always hurt. [00:33:05] Joe: [00:13:05] Nick Stewart: I mean, I can start maybe backtracking a little bit from the acquisition. And. Instead, Ill be using the Recover Athletics App. What, what do they need that were not giving them it wasnt. Terms of Service | Privacy Policy. What could we possibly put behind there that would, you know,increase that, that value proposition to get them to pay and seeing something like Recover Athletics, it makes a whole lot of sense that they say, Hey, this would make sense as a, you know, service product. Yeah. Recover Athletics is the recovery app for Strava athletes. We have subscription parity, and that is exactly what everyone should do. Ill jump in. Contact Information Website www.recoverathletics.com Ownership Status What was it initially? How can we get free users to stick around? And you know, occasionally we get kicked out of groups, but then, then every once in a while, if you, if you pitched it well enough, the community would. The other half. As you can probably imagine, Joe, putting your entrepreneurs hat on, like, Were a few years into running the business. [00:01:33] Nick Stewart: Find your B2B customer within minutes using affordable, accurate contact data from Datanyze. Products. When you go click the button to ask for another 10,000, [00:16:20] Nick Stewart: This could be for our subscribers. I used to hav e some pain in my arch/on the outside edge of my foot after runs, but that doesnt happen anymore, which is awesome. I think. So far we've helped democratize access to best-in-class physical therapy for over 3,000 runners. And also what better place for us to learn both, to see what its like to really quickly scale a business up from tens of thousands to millions of athletes. Here's a list of some of the top trending technologies and APIs used by Recover Athletics. $795.00 - $1,090.00. Like,yeah, I think, you know, even where we are today, its like, how do we get the word out about the newsletter or the podcast or whatever it is. Nick Stewart. More broadly, there are 8M high schoolathletesand roughly 500,000 NCAAathleteswho could also benefit from seamless help with injury prevention! Focusing on the customer, figuring out your monetization strategy early was so important. But like in terms of our core business objective was to provide value to those who paid for the recover subscription. October 21, 2021. You know, in effect is like, you guys had this quite literal pain point, right? We, we used to train in those really early days with Tracksmith group and we started every. One of the things Im most excited about, and this goes back towell put it in the show notesa few episodes ago, talking to Michael about whats next for Strava. Recover Athletics is a prehab app for athletes. Yeah, I think honestly, the, the secret sauce for us on product also works for us on, or maybe like our unfair advantage. Their mission is to help runners spend more time running and less time injured. And then you take the, you know, the next step and not to just stick at the kind of startup early, super early stage journey. And like, we were highly motivated to help the. If you already have a Strava account its pretty easy. But you figure that out fast when theres someone whos like,excuse me, your app sucks. View All Contacts Details Industries Fitness Health Care Personal Health Software Sports Headquarters Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Founded Date 2018 Recover Athletics, founded in 2018 by Nick Kafker and Nick Stewart, has helped thousands of runners reduce the risk of injury by creating personalized exercise routines based on training and soreness data. CEO + Co-Founder at Recover Athletics. Select Strava > Enable Strava Enter the email and password attached to your Strava account. couple other key points to mention about the relationship with Strava earlier. Best products. The acquisition gives all Strava Theyre loving this, theyre buying it in addition to the product already. Totally.and so we sort of stumbled upon a way to a niche for them too, where they wanted to have bigger impact. It was like Brady de Moss touchdown Brady de Moss touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. How do we provide value for them in reaching out to them? Were telling us where to look like. And we had 655 people download the test flight version of the app. The Recover App helps runners fix aches and pains and prevent injury. We, We, were so excited about that and we also hadnt really scaled outside of the us at all. Today Im joined by Recover Athletics Co-founders, Nick Stewart and Nick Kafker. Invaluable, totally amazing way to launch a product. How do you point people to navigate that and learn more? [00:12:08] Nick Stewart: How do we build more value behind the pay wall? If you enjoyed this article, feel free to check out my other work onLinkedInand my personal website,frederickdaso.com. Recover Athletics is an injury-prevention tool for runners. I reunited with Nick Kafker and Stevie when we moved back to Boston after I graduated from Yale. [00:34:52] Nick Stewart: All Rights Reserved. Product @ Strava, Co-Founder @ Recover Athletics (acq '22) . If you don't know us, we're so glad you stopped by our page. Its like, why is that? And now as weve merged with cyclists, were beginning to add more cycling, specific content. Find Nicholas' email address, mobile number, work history, and more. Everybody. Custom prehab routines for every runner. Far and away this physical therapist, some other physical therapists that we worked with, help us learn that like thats the way you do it is you build up these parts of your body with simple strengthening exercises and you can make those aches and pains go away and just become more resilient overall as an athlete. and then the other thing that Ill mention is that we, we got really lucky. Obviously STR is a huge community of, you know, over a hundred million athletes. Everybody knows whats going on. This is the impact that we want to have on this group of people around the world. As we tried to hike the mileage,and KAF actually had a buddy,who was the youngest woman to ever be hired in the sports medicine clinic,at mass general in Boston. Build for your customer build for the person who pays the people who dont pay. And I think that was what recover did. Awesome guys. Its easy to get distracted by all the different experiments you could run to determine the long term product roadmap. Most people like you, you run out the flag eventually somebodys gonna salute. And also we came back to them every Wednesday and we better have a new feature or new content or something to show them so that we could justify our existence. Im Nick Kafker. Its, its obviously gaining some traction and you start to think, Hey, where do we wanna take this? I was the COO and business partner of Nicholas Stewart, on my left here, at Recover Athletics. And then she would send us videos of what exactly to. Yeah, I might have it. Yeah, maybe I can start with the TL;DR on what the product is today, and then we can backtrack into what it was at at the very early idea stage. Also like one thing we havent said, but like the team, the founding team, the executive team at Strava is one of the most electrifying group of people. [00:26:37] Joe: Its. Maybe talk about how you guys, as runners came across that problem initially set out to solve it, and then really made that into a company. It's a great boost to my regular routine!" And trying to figure out how do I do all these various things? Breaking down the business of fitness and wellness, #137: Michael Horvath, CEO & Co-founder of Strava, How to leverage your competitive advantages in your product launch, Simple & powerful growth hacks you can use when starting out, How Recover began their relationship with Strava. I think one piece of tactical advice for the early stage founders that we know are, are tapped into what you guys are, are building. I can guarantee you that Ill no longer be Googling exercises that lead me in the wrong direction to recovery. But yeah, Im definitely excited to share this conversation. what should we be on the lookout for? Corner in the city has a running store. And so apple gives you a thousand users when you do the test flight. Recover Athletics LLC Revenue $2.7 M Employees 7 Founded 2018 Primary Industries Hospitality Sports Teams & Leagues Consumer Electronics & Computers Retail Retail CEO Nicholas Stewart Recover Athletics Executive Team & Key Decision Makers Recently Updated Team Members Top Recover Athletics Integrations and Technologies It was like it was the right place to build a company thats for. Convert on that paywall and start a trial which will unlock the Strava app for you as well. And like, We should give ourselves credit. I hope everybody does. [00:06:11] Nick Kafker: But I also think that we were very fortunate to be in the circumstances and have exposure to this group of founders and to be able to make this happen. Theyre gonna be better off for it. I mean, theres just a billion Facebook groups out there of people who are training for a specific race. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. Please excuse any errors. [00:03:21] Nick Kafker: Join industry-leading Im grateful to, to mark because that was a mistake that K and I never made.we laser focused early on on figuring out. Nick, Nick and Jaffer our CTO at the time in a garage, we like, we had no resources. Like, youre playing poker with your cards all on the table. Couldnt agree more. So what happens after that kind of inflection point? Learn how pro runners stay healthy and prevent injuries - directly from them. And then we could deploy. Start Free Trial their passion on the road, the track, the treadmill, or the trail with the Recover Athletics app. Its like virtual word of mouth, basically happening. Physical therapy place to clinic, to clinic, like hoping somebody can solve this or worst case, like orthopedic surgeon, orthopedic surgeon, MRIs, like trying to figure out whats going on.so I think all those things lined up quite nicely. how much easier it would be to bring the app that we really cared about to more runners like us all over the world, was just so alarming. Relatively in the life of our three year company. [00:25:26] Nick Stewart: And it was like, honestly, one of the best days of my life. So obviously conceiving of the idea, getting off the ground, starting to get users now Im sure like iterating with, with features and product and things are breaking right on a daily, weekly basis. [00:20:12] Joe: You. For example, if you have knee pain, theres a group of scientists that meet every two years to. for sure. And thats something, the, the story as it relates to, you know, mark and Michael Ive, Ive talked to them both how to both on the podcast, theyre, you know, obviously amazing operators, but its something that they lived right firsthand with Strava, like going through monetization, how do we figure it out, choosing different paths and doing that over the course of 10 years. To better chart the path to our, you know, our company that goes public one day. A lot to work on, right? Recover Athletics designed an injury prevention app for runners using input and expertise from physical therapists together with customized AI-driven recovery and prehab plans to aid with proprietary coaching and workouts as well as health tracking and performance analysis. To view or add a comment, sign in, Om Kumar Sanjay lal I think we built a really good strategy and executed on that strategy in a way that was like, well prioritized. So that was, that was something that was key for us early on. And they were like, your routines should be based on the consensus statement on Patel ephemeral pain syndrome. Its a great boost to my regular routine! Startup Spotlight: Recover Athletics Okay. Like you mentioned, you know, Whether its in person at these like running groups, whether its at running stores or at races on the digital communities around races and running and training. Spotify. Yeah, totally. Check out launches that are coming soon. Copyright 2022 Recover Athletics. Hey guys, welcome to Fitt Insider. Plus the guys talk about selling the company to Strava and reaching tens of millions of athletes. So there was, there was that draw and then they were looking at their athletes, you know, by our app. We should be thankful, but I think the thing we should really give ourselves credit for is like maximizing these set of circumstances. And I think a lot of times people can, you know, just sit alone in a room and like toil with it and like, oh, I wanna get this perfect. You know, what would it look like to join forces in some way, but from their perspective, And, you know, me putting words in their mouth, but from, from the outside, looking in, as theyre thinking about as well, we have all these free people coming to the platform. What our strategy was for bringing runners behind the paywall, getting them into the subscription. It. we were we were on a call where this sort of became a real option and afterwards Nick and I were like, well, yeah, I mean, thats like what We do. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. co-founder and CEO of Recover Athletics, about what he's working on at his startup, . Nick, and Nick, from Recover Athletics. Prehab and injury prevention app for runners | Recover Athletics Try Recover for Free Get stronger and help prevent your next injury Prehab routines for every runner. [00:05:11] Nick Stewart: Youre, youre always have something going on in your body that youd like to help it trend in the right direction. Active, Closed, Whether an Organization is for profit or non-profit, General contact email for the organization, Auto-generated name of transaction (e.g. We actually just launched our Android app after three years, which was a really exciting moment for our team. $595.00 - $890.00. Two recent Yale graduates founded this Boston-based sports tech startup. Im so glad I have found this app! [00:26:26] Nick Stewart: business of fitness and wellness. Well, I, I think honestly, very similar to your interest in this space. Our first monthly price was like 2 99 or 1 99. Recover Athletics | 708 followers on LinkedIn. Automatically Syncing your Recover Athletics' Activities to Strava Log into your existing Recover Athletics account or, if you don't have one, create a new account. I probably have that if especially if you have that problem, youre. She was user like a hundred, 1,500 or something. Ill let you introduce yourselves and say hello, but for folks who arent familiar, give em a little bit of your background and the quick intro to Recover. Yeah, exactly. And we were lucky enough to know one of them, even in the early days before Recover Athletics existed as a concept. If youre getting aches and pains or youre, you know, gonna fall off from injury, how can we get the recover app in front of you to help keep your body on the, so at a high level, those are some of the things that were thinking about. Also. The company's platform provides recovery plans designed by doctors, physical therapists, and coaches, then customized with AI, helping in a faster and better recovery process, enabling runners to help fix aches & pains, prevent injury, and run their best and improve performance. Its pretty good now, but they stayed with it. I think in the scheme of things, when you think about running and racing and being active, its not always top of mind, right? As a really critical top of funnel, user acquisition channel. Right? Follow me on Twitter@fredsoda, on Medium@fredsoda, and on Instagram@fred_soda. And then you have users like this one woman from Canada, Colleen, whos been with us. Great to be here. Like this was the perfect outcome and were just really glad that we were able to like, get it there and now start this new journey of growing these two things. And that just messaging to runners around their workouts was so valuable for driving retention on the app. And like if they download the app or if they subscribe to the newsletter, We hope and think, right. You said earlier, right? Most of these. How do we provide more value for our customer? To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. [00:31:59] Nick Kafker: And for only 60 bucks a year, get access to literally the best that the industry can possibly provide as far as preventative exercises to do based on your body and and, and your training. So we were like, Hey, would you help us? and as I mentioned, we ran this marathon together.and so actually I think you were the one who, posted. Its no brainer. On. Team: Our founding team met in high school on our track team! Essentially what we help athletes do is prevent the risk of injury, and get stronger through proactive strengthening and mobility work. Oh, but sometimes you as calf said, like youd get 600 runners who were just trying to help you out because they cared about what we were building. Before we get into it, give them the rundown: what is the product? Rooted in the concept of prehab, Recover Athletics is an injury-prevention platform for runners, helping exercisers spend more time moving and less time laid up. It was like truly magical for us and like really humbling, honestly. Like physical pain point that you were setting out to solve, you had this, you know, almost the massive audience of. So that was a real inflection point.a critical growth moment for us early on that kind of proved the power of the Strava ecosystem. So fix aches and pains, prevent injury, run, ride, hike, your best. and we launched a run club on Strava at the beginning of the pandemic that went viral. so super stoked that we met and you know, you talk about it initially. [00:03:35] Joe: Nicholas Stewart is the CEO + Co-Founder at Recover Athletics based in United States.Every year 75% of distance runners in the US get injured. A year's subscription costs less than one trip to physical therapist and we have an unlimited free trial. So Id say like, In some ways we, we kind of knew intuitively what we needed to build from day one, because The, the pain point that we were solving for really was exactly what we were experiencing. [00:18:27] Joe: Name of the organization that made the acquisition, Total number of Crunchbase contacts associated with this organization, Total number of employee profiles an organization has on Crunchbase, Total number of organizations similar to the given organization, Descriptive keyword for an Organization (e.g. Yeah, well, first off cant overstate,how excited we are about our Android app finally launching. 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