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Josh Portner

Josh Portner

CEO and founder of Silca bicycle components; former Technical Director at Zipp Speed Weaponry; co-host of Marginal Gains Cycling Podcast.

May 28, 2026

10:56
How do you feel about that?
10:57
Oh, I'd, I'd say that's accurate.
10:59
Yeah.
11:00
[laughs] I mean, what's the, the Warren Buffett.
11:01
You know, the tide goes out, you see who's swimming naked.
11:03
And, and, um, yeah, the, the COVID was certainly a massive tide-out event.
11:09
And, you know, I think a lot of companies that probably ran so-so as businesses could trickle along in relatively normal environments, and then you get a shock to the system, and you, you just, you just can't survive it.

35 MINS LATER

46:12
And we've never done that well as an industry.

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