Secret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter & Chris Donnelly

How I failed: the gym business which went under, with Shares Co-Founder Benjamin Chemla

Benjamin Chemla has been an entrepreneur for over a decade. He co-founded the massive on-demand delivery service Stuart in 2015 and currently he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Shares, a just-launched app which makes investing a social experience. 
But between his successes, there was a high profile failure. Benjamin founded a group of gyms in New York City called Fithouse in 2017. Everything started great, classes running on everything from yoga to boxing. Investors had put up $10 million and he was turning a profit. But then came the pandemic…
Find out what happened next and why Benjamin decided it was better to walk away than stay and fight. 

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Chris and Dan are serial entrepreneurs who've built, sold, scaled &amp; failed companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So, like, we get it - business is hard. But we also love it, it's fun!
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