Rad Power Bikes
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Sectors
- Manufacturing, Retail, E-commerce, Electric bicycles, Consumer goods
- Stage
- former-startup
Seattle’s history of hardware heartbreak: Big raises, high hopes, hard landings
Seattle’s consumer-hardware ambitions are once again colliding with economic reality. The struggles of Glowforge and Rad Power Bikes echo a long regional history of big raises, high hopes, and hard landings — shaped by the pandemic, VC, and the unforgiving nature of building real products. GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook recorded this conversation for the purpose of providing the audio to an AI tool that turned the conversation into a written column that was edited and reviewed before publication. Check it out here. Related Stories: Glowforge hits restart: After restructuring, co-founders acquire key assets of laser engraver startup…
GeekWire Elevator Pitch: Mike Radenbaugh of Rad Power Bikes
GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch challenges startup founders to pitch their concepts in the time it takes to get to the top of Seattle’s Space Needle. Watch Rad Power Bikes CEO Mike Radenbaugh pitch in this segment, and check out the full episode here: https://youtu.be/XKLQdIaWhIs
People
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Mike Radenbaugh Founder, Co-founder
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Ty Collins Founder, Former Co-founder, Cofounder (in title only)
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Angelina “Angy” Smith Executive, Chief Financial Officer; Interim CEO (brief)
