Today’s guest is Quin Sandler. Quin is a designer, product builder, investor, entrepreneur and musician. He’s founded four start-ups in the last 12 years: Keystone Learning, a mobile tutoring company; Principle Design Group, a branding and identity company; FestThis, a media and live events production company; and is currently leading the charge at Plantiga, a human analytics company with one simple goal: to build the most comprehensive, intelligent system that monitors, analyzes and predicts human movement for recovery, health and fitness. Plantiga provides members insights on their movement health through a combination of sensor insoles – which track how you walk, run, jump, and change direction – and 1 on 1 coaching with certified movement specialists to help you better understand what to do with the data you’re getting from the insoles. In this interview, we get into Quin’s career pivot from musician to entrepreneur, the companies he founded prior to Plantiga, and all things Plantiga and movement health.
Timestamps
00:02:22 Growing up in Vancouver, Canada
00:04:45 Wanting to become a professional musician
00:06:31 Is he a natural/born entrepreneur?
00:07:28 Pivoting to entrepreneurship and leaving college
00:10:24 The tutoring company he founded
00:12:46 The other companies he founded prior to Plantiga
00:15:29 Key takeaways from his prior ventures
00:16:39 Founding Plantiga
00:18:05 The name Plantiga
00:19:05 Plantiga overview
00:20:04 Plantiga use cases
00:22:05 The Plantiga insoles
00:24:06 The movement health crisis
00:27:13 The Plantiga user experience
00:30:53 Target markets and customer base
00:32:48 The sedentary lifestyle
00:35:23 Why movement is the best lens into human health
00:38:37 Plantiga business model
00:39:59 How the pandemic affected the business
00:42:50 Raising money for the company
00:44:55 Ultimate vision for Plantiga
00:48:30 Other niches within human performance he finds really interesting
00:51:13 Being a space enthusiast
00:54:00 What he wants to accomplish 5 years from now
00:55:25 His daily routine
00:56:38 His driving force
00:58:32 Parting words of wisdom for the aspiring entrepreneur
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