5 Year Frontier - #7: AI entrenches vertical SaaS, predicting customer behavior, global wellness in 2024, and the future of fitness w/ Mindbody CEO Fritz Lanman

#7: AI entrenches vertical SaaS, predicting customer behavior, global wellness in 2024, and the future of fitness w/ Mindbody CEO Fritz Lanman

01/15/24 • 24 min

The future of vertical software seen through the lens of the fitness and wellness industry. In it we cover the evolution of software to ecosystems, predicting customer behavior, the rise of embedded finance, and the global appetite for fitness.

Fritz Lanman is CEO of Mindbody, the leading software platform serving fitness and wellness studios in over 150 countries. An incredible success case for vertical software that has grown to serve 60,000 businesses representing more than 20M consumers. Supporting them with a comprehensive suite of tools from scheduling to marketing. Mindbody went public on the NASDAQ in 2015 and was taken private by Vista Equity in 2019. Fritz came to Mindbody via the acquisition of Classpass where he was first an investor then CEO, and still serves as CEO today. Starting his career at Microsoft Fritz is a 3x entrepreneur, passionate about advanced software and data, and has an enviable angle investment track record that includes Pinterest, Square, Wish and Flexport.

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undefined - #6: Sustainable cities, $300M transformation of the Empire State, open source buildings, and the future of real estate w/ Empire State Realty Trust CEO Anthony Malkin

#6: Sustainable cities, $300M transformation of the Empire State, open source buildings, and the future of real estate w/ Empire State Realty Trust CEO Anthony Malkin

The future of sustainable cities and real estate. In it we cover topics including the most impactful projects of the Empire State’s $300M retrofit, new innovations in sustainability for buildings old and new, the importance of economic incentives and the incoming regulation putting pressure on the real estate industry globally.

Anthony Malkin is CEO of Empire State Reality Trust, Inc (NYSE:ESRT), a leading real estate investment trust which owns and operates office and retail properties throughout New York — most notable being the Empire State Building coined ‘The Worlds Most Famous Building’. Tony has transformed the 100 year old Empire State building into a shining example of energy efficiency and modernization, open sourcing their work to the world and advancing the cause of green buildings in partnership with others such as the Clinton Climate Initiative. Tony has led the development of standards for building energy efficiency and, amongst his many positions, is a member of the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York and member of Partnership for NYC’s Innovation. Tony is an intellectually forward and bold thinker, deep in innovation through personal investments in VC and the technology industry. A man of action, mission-driven by our green city future yet equipped with the business mind to make it economically viable and practical to achieve.

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undefined - #8: Automating profitability in construction, software powered job sites, predicting $15T of spend, and the future of building w/ Briq CEO Bassem Hamdy

#8: Automating profitability in construction, software powered job sites, predicting $15T of spend, and the future of building w/ Briq CEO Bassem Hamdy

The future of the construction industry, more specifically how money flows within construction. In it we cover topics such financial automation from the CFO office right down to the job site, the move from a backwards looking workflow to a real-time and predictive one, as well as the industry tailwinds accelerating overall technology adoption of a $15T segment of the global economy.

Bassem Hamdy is founder and CEO of Briq, a next generation financial platform to make construction projects more profitable. Briq, a 150 person tech company out of Santa Barbara, commands a significant share of US construction firms as its customers and now has expanded internationally. The industry uses Briq to gain visibility over the flow of money on a project in order to make better planning decisions and predict profits more confidently.

Bassem is a rare breed, he’s been in construction software for over two decades, before it was cool and before there was even an industry around it. First seeing the introduction of resource planning software at CMIC (which now handles over $100B in construction revenue each year) to then being EVP of Enterprise Strategy at Procore (a now public company) helping construction transition to the cloud. Today we get to talk about what the next evolution is. He’s also one of the very few that can speak construction as authentically as he speaks technology.

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