Payal Kadakia

Payal Kadakia

www.payalkadakia.com
17 Interviews
Just 8 days into 2020, #entrepreneur Payal Kadakia (@payal) fulfilled her long-standing dream of building a "unicorn." Unicorns, for those of us not from the tech milieu, are startups worth over $1 billion, and her company was the first to attain this coveted status in the current decade. But the path to this success was long. Payal's dream was seeded when she was just three years old and began training in Indian traditional and folk dances. Years later, after getting a Management Science degree at MIT, she decided to launch a business that would somehow connect sport and dance. So Kadakia founded ClassPass, an aggregator platform giving its users access to hundreds of gyms and studios, including "boutique" ones offering dance classes. And no, it didn’t become a unicorn right away – it took over a decade of hard work. But today, with her company worth over $1B, Payal proudly calls herself a “dancepreneur.” To find out more about this proud unicorn owner (and here the voices of more than fifteen hundred other amazing entrepreneurs), sign up to follow Payal on Padverb

Payal Kadakia's Interviews

Steven Bartlett & Payal Kadakia 09 Sep 2022 • EN

Moment 74 - Business Struggles That No One Tells You: Payal Kadakia

In this moment, Classpass founder Payal Kadakia takes us inside the mental dilemmas and burdens of running a billion dollar business. Because when you’ve built a global company from nothing, no matter how big it gets you always remember when it was small, vulnerable, and struggling. You’ll always see the tiny company i

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Payal is the founder of Classpass, the app that’s helped millions of users find their passion. Her own love of dancing encouraged her to start a business which enabled anyone, anywhere to find something they loved to do. When Payal’s parents moved to America with no money and no connections, they had to completely star

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Patrick J. McGinnis & Payal Kadakia 24 Mar 2022 • EN

Rejecting Expectations to Create Success with ClassPass’s Payal Kadakia

March is Women’s History Month and we will be featuring some outstanding female FOMO Sapiens on the podcast all month long for a special break between seasons.  What are the financial realities of starting your own business? Can you reject traditional expectations while still embracing traditions? If you are ClassPass

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Alain Guillot & Payal Kadakia 19 Feb 2022 • EN

Payal Kadakia: Building a billion-dollar fitness business

https://www.alainguillot.com/payal-kadakia/ Payal Kadakia is the founder and was executive chairman of ClassPass, a billion-dollar business, and author of LifePass: Develop the Mindset, Techniques, and Goals to Optimize Your Life. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/357QciI

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Zibby is joined by a fellow entrepreneur and the founder of ClassPass, Payal Kadakia, to discuss her new memoir, LifePass. The two talk about how dance allowed Payal to be her most authentic self and connect with others, why learning to pivot and iterate are central tenets of entrepreneurship, and what Payal plans to d

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