Feb 18, 2020
You may have caught Randy on How
I Built This with Guy Raz. In this interview, we take a different
direction and dig into the early experiences that laid the
foundation for Randy’s future success. Randy is the founder and CEO
of TRX, the human performance and training company.
After rowing at USC where he studied history and martial arts, he
had a 14-year career in the Navy as an officer, SEAL Operator and
Squadron Commander of the SEALs Special Missions Unit. Following
that, he got his MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business
where he invented the TRX Suspension Trainer.
I met Randy in the mid 2000s and wrote about him and the TRX
suspension trainer for Outside magazine. It struck me as a
revolutionary way to train and a hell of a good idea. I ended up
leaving journalism to go work for Randy and had a front-row seat as
the company skyrocketed from a startup to a global business with
over $50 million in annual revenue. TRX gear and training programs
are widely used in the military, in gyms, and by pretty much every
pro sports team on the planet.
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