Payal Kadakia

Payal Kadakia is the CEO and co-founder of ClassPass, a monthly membership service that lets users attend a sample of fitness classes in certain cities.

Life and career

Payal Kadakia grew up in Randolph, New Jersey.[1] In 2005, she graduated from MIT with a degree in Operations Research.[2][3]

After college, Kadakia worked as a consultant at Bain & Company.[4] She went on to work at Warner Music Group. In 2008, while working at Warner, she also founded Sa Dance Company.[3][4]

After spending over an hour searching online for an open ballet class she could take, Kadakia had the idea to create a search engine for fitness classes, similar to OpenTable.[5] In 2011, Kadakia founded Classtivity with her then business partner Sanjiv Sanghavi. In January 2014, Classtivity was rebranded as ClassPass.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Payal Kadakia". gothamgal`. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Payal Kadakia". MIT. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 Arata, Emily. "I Want Your Job: Payal Kadakia, Cofounder And CEO Of ClassPass". EliteDaily.com. EliteDailyy. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 Gregoire, Waylae. "Payal Kadakia: How She Turned Her Love of Dancing Into a Startup Venture". Nextshark.com. Nextshark. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Marikar, Sheila. "How one fitness entrepreneur raised $14 million". Fortune. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Carson, Biz. "How this world-class dancer went from failing twice to a $400 million fitness empire". Business Insider. Retrieved 10 February 2016.


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