About this episode

The episode features an interview with Stepan Krivosheev, discussing the development and unique aspects of Wyder, a social coaching app for endurance training.

Great conversation with Stepan Krivosheev, CEO and co-founder of Wyder, the Leuven-born endurance app betting that training should be social and personal at the same time. 🏃 We dig into the origin story, what makes Wyder the "first social coaching app," and how the three first-time founders went full-time just three months ago. Stepan walks us through the marketplace model for finding training partners at your pace, the new AI coach (€14/month, self-hosted on AWS Bedrock for GDPR reasons), and the brutal reality of integrating with Garmin, Coros, Polar and Suunto. We also get into their city-by-city growth playbook (1,400 users in Leuven, now with the move to Antwerp), why micro-influencers care more about brand alignment than money, the willingness-to-pay puzzle among triathletes, and the structural challenge of raising B2C money from European VCs. Plus a fully bootstrapped status update, fresh VLAIO grant in hand, and what the next twelve months and ~30 target cities look like. 🙋‍♂️ Guest: Stepan Krivosheev, CEO & Co-founder, Wyder (Leuven, Belgium) 🔗 Website: https://wyder.io 📩 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stepan-krivosheev/ 📸 Instagram…

People in this episode

Guest: Stepan Krivosheev

Topics covered

• social coaching app
• endurance training
• marketplace model
• AI coach
• B2C funding
• micro-influencers
• growth strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wyder, Garmin, Coros, Polar, Suunto, VLAIO

Places: Belgium, Leuven, Antwerp

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