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47. Josh Augustin, CTO of Tempo
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English - September 08, 2020 09:30 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Health & Fitness Fitness entrepreneurship news wellness business fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today I’m joined by Josh Augustin.
Josh is the CTO of Tempo — a smart home gym that uses computer vision to track your form in real-time.
In this episode, we discuss the company’s origin story as a product designed to be used in the gym. How they pivoted to at-home fitness. The recent $60M funding round that valued the company at $250M. And the future of the connected fitness category.
Get to know Josh:
Josh Augustin is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tempo since 2014. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Josh attended Columbia University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. At Columbia, he worked as a researcher in the Robotics and Computer Graphics labs, studying robotic cloth perception and manipulation among other topics. In 2014, Josh was a software engineering intern at Pixar Animation Studios and was later accepted into startup accelerator Y-Combinator’s prestigious Winter 2015 class along with his Co-Founder, Moawia Eldeeb. Josh was recently honored on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list for Consumer Technology.
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