Hosted by Sam Huntington · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 33 episodes
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Hill Climbers started as a cycling podcast covering cycling-centric founders and has become a startup ecosystem for cyclists. We are founders, investors, execs and startup enthusiasts who are building companies together while supporting our underdog sport. Subscribe to our newsletter for a growing schedule of live events, rides and podcast drops. Wouldn't you rather be networking on a bike? Subscribe: https://www.hill-climbers.com/subscribe
Sam Huntington hosts Hill Climbers, a sports show with 33 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail In January I texted Charlie Tames, an Austin businessman with ties to Rapha, asking if he could put me in touch with someone at corporate ahead of my London visit. His response read, “Fran will be in Aus
Send us Fan Mail At this point Kate Veronneau, Director of Women’s Strategy at Zwift, needs little introduction because she’s omnipresent in cycling media around the world including the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift,
Send us Fan Mail We’ve been excited about expanding the Hill Climbers audience beyond Austin, TX and one day back in October a juicy opportunity presented itself. Doug Zell from the Meteor texted me about hosting a group
Send us Fan Mail A couple of months ago Michelle Kopplow, a new friend and triathlon devotee, reached out to me and suggested an introduction with Mathias Ihlendfeld, the previous CEO of Woom bikes. I was immediately fir
Send us Fan Mail Having three Hill Climbers team members do a show without Sam is a statement in and of itself. That's to say the squad is growing quickly. Stephen Cunningham is a data team lead at EF Education so he get
Send us Fan Mail Noah Kagan was one of the first people I met when I moved to Austin, TX 5 years ago. He immediately invited me to his annual AppSumo ride and also put me in touch with Jeffrey Nolte, who became one of my
Send us Fan Mail One year ago, Franco Martins, a friend and collaborator, told me that the CTO at his place of work, Icon, is a cyclist and was going to ride bikes with us. Here’s why this is a big deal: Icon is one of A
Send us Fan Mail Jason Codianne from Chasing Watts was put on my radar by Scott Barger, a Zwift cofounder I used to ride with in LA. Scott has been super supportive of Hill Climbers by keeping me posted on interesting cy
Send us Fan Mail A couple of years ago I witnessed Amos Schwartzfarb in action with his Techstars ATX cohort at my coworking space in east Austin. He led the program with an electric energy that was both intense but also
Send us Fan Mail Let's cut to the chase - this panel features a story in which Tolley harasses and attacks World Champion, Peter Sagan at Unbound...and hilarity ensues. Anyway, this show was a culmination of two years wo
Send us Fan Mail Elliott Teller introduced himself at our first live event, and told me he was about to launch his Austin-based cycling and running apparel brand, People’s Endurance. I liked Elliott’s understated and lai
Send us Fan Mail This episode is part two of our show with Mark Farmery, founder of Biotech Bikers and Chief Development Officer at Swedish biotech firm, Anocca. In part II Mark tells us about how his urge to apply scien
Send us Fan Mail The key metric for measuring Hill Climbers success is engagement - but I’m not talking about likes, comments and shares. The show with Eric Min from Zwift was a big milestone for us because Eric’s a know
Send us Fan Mail To help spread the word about the show, my friend Rey Madolora put me on an email with a bunch of Austin cyclists that are also notable in the business community. One by one I was able to meet most of th
Send us Fan Mail We could have interviewed Allison Morrison fresh off her World’s debut in Olympic distance triathlon as a UT MBA student and full time Meta employee. However this podcast has a strong entrepreneurial the
Send us Fan Mail Zwift cofounder Eric Min was a tantalizing and wildly obvious guest candidate for a number of reasons that we'll enumerate, however, we did not think he'd join us so soon! Last year Eric turned up in the
Send us Fan Mail The legend of Masters World Champion Joe Wentzell loomed large because Joe was a Temple University lineman and my brother in law has been coached by him on the bike for some time. Various versions of, "J
Send us Fan Mail Earlier in the spring my buddy, Chas, told me that he trained with a guy named Scott Baldwin who was building a social media platform dedicated to endurance athletes. On top of that, Scott hails from the
Send us Fan Mail A few months ago I introduced a Hill Climbers ride in Austin for folks to connect with each other over some soft pedaling, in addition to some hard pedaling. All of a sudden, our little Hill Climbers bra
Send us Fan Mail Starting an American kit company in a sea of established competitors may seem like a daunting undertaking to some. Ryan Cady, however, became a bike shop owner at nineteen years old during college, raced
Kate Veronneau
Director of Women's Strategy · Zwift
1 appearance on this show
Noah Kagan
Author of Million Dollar Weekend · AppSumo
1 appearance on this show
Amos Schwartzfarb
Techstars
1 appearance on this show
Rob Taylor
tech lawyer · Newport Sportfishing Charters
1 appearance on this show
Will Bryant
pastoral ministries summer intern · Medicine Hat Tigers
1 appearance on this show
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