What happens when a founder builds a product for a problem they personally faced?

In this episode of Building Series, we sit down with Damian Chow, co-founder of Gym Pod, Singapore’s first fully automated private gym concept. Damian shares how feeling intimidated in traditional gyms led him to rethink the entire fitness experience, from crowded spaces and rigid memberships to accessibility, privacy, and pay-per-use models.

We explore why Gym Pod operates without on-site staff, how underutilised spaces like parks became viable gym locations, the scrappy early days of manual bookings, the expansion of the Pod concept beyond gyms into podcast studios, and Damian’s vision for the future of automation in fitness and content creation.

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