About the guest:

A fitness enthusiast and a go-getter by nature, entrepreneur Jayam Vora is the Co-Founder and COO of Fitternity, India’s first and largest marketplace and booking platform for fitness services. Starting his career with a technology start-up in the healthcare space.

Jayam has spent the last 7 years understanding and working towards solving challenges faced by the Indian user in their pursuit towards a healthier lifestyle. He aims to use technology and innovation to help leapfrog India’s fragmented & under-explored fitness industry to a mature integrated fitness ecosystem.

About Fitternity: Fitternity is the largest managed marketplace and service provider in Asia for fitness and well-being services.   Having catered to over 11.5 Million users, Fitternity is operating a network of 12,000+ fitness centers & gyms in India. Fitternity also runs an innovative subscription business - providing users access to all of their network of 12,000+ fitness centers, swimming pools, spas, nutrition counseling, and other wellness services under one membership called OnePass.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayam-vora-00169565/

Fitternity: https://www.fitternity.com/

Key Insights in this Episode:

• The Beginning of Fitternity? [04:00]
  
• Making Decisions as a Founder [24:00]
  
• Business Models and Raising $8.5 million [28:00]
  
• Advice for Entrepreneurs and Lessons Learned [40:00]
  

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Entrepreneurial journey

[02:00] Start of Fitternity

[07:30] Biggest challenge in starting Fitternity

[13:20] Fitternity and its competitors

[16:15] Working with your Co-founder

[17:20] Growing Fitternity and monitoring growth

[20:00] Learning while working for a startup

[24:00] How do you make decisions?

[28:00] Investors and business models (raising $8.5 million)

[32:00] What’s next in the fitness industry?

[40:00] Advice for Entrepreneurs

[46:00] Top 3